Poverty-stricken Sentence Examples

She couldn't see the poverty-stricken section of the city.

They are poverty-stricken, and easily fall victim to fever.

The houses are generally built of wood and wear a poverty-stricken aspect.

A few oligarchs enriched themselves through colonial plunder, while much of the population was poverty-stricken.

Our already poverty-stricken country will now have to recover from a double shock.

Despite her poverty-stricken, abusive upbringing, Joanna was surrounded by music.

The poverty-stricken and barbarous Nubians were strong and courageous, and gladly served in Egypt as mercenary soldiers and police.

But the funds required for these public works, as well as the actual labor, were remorselessly extorted from a poverty-stricken population.

They are poverty-stricken, and easily fall victims to fever.

It was his view that "the attainment of human rights in the fullest sense cannot be achieved so long as hundreds of millions of poverty-stricken people lack the basic necessities for life."

Pinta is primarily found in rural, poverty-stricken areas of northern South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

For the impression which we get from Nehemiah's memoirs is that in his days the community at Jerusalem was in the main poverty-stricken, while Malachi's exhortations to the people to pay their dues to the priests implies that in the middle of the fifth century B.C. the Temple was by no means wealthy.

On the one hand were the English plantations, populated, cultivated, profitable, stretching along the east coast of North America; on the other were the Canadian settlements, poverty-stricken, empty, over-officialled, a cause of constant expense to the home government, and, at a vast distance, those of Louisiana, struggling and bankrupt.

In Catholic countries (notably in Ireland) great churches are still built out of the savings of a poverty-stricken peasantry; and from this point of view the destruction of churches in the 26th century was probably a benefit to the world.

It paints popes, cardinals, prelates, rectors, monks and friars, who call themselves followers of Peter and keepers of the gates of heaven and hell, and pale poverty-stricken people, cotless and landless, who have to pay the fat clergy for spiritual assistance, and asks if these are Peter's priests.

Thus he procured money at all costs, with an extremely crude fiscal judgment which ended by exasperating the people; hence numerous insurrections of the poverty-stricken; Dijon rose in revolt against the aides in 1630, Provence against the tax-officers (lus) in 1631, Paris and Lyons in 1632, and Bordeaux against the increase of customs in 1635.

Many village girls are married as young as 12 or 13 and spend the rest of their lives in poverty-stricken household drudgery.

At present it is an untidy, poverty-stricken village of about 1000 inhabitants, mostly of Albanian blood.

Since becoming an ambassador, she has made numerous trips to underprivileged nations, both to see first hand the conditions many of these poverty-stricken people live in and to raise awareness and funds to help these countries.

Despite living in a poverty-stricken area, Curtis and his mother were able to afford the best of material goods thanks to her drug hustling.

Luma's efforts in partnering in remote sustainable communities and poverty-stricken regions has promoted and encouraged developing countries with organic byproducts.

The antisocially disordered person may be poverty-stricken, homeless, a substance abuser, or have an extensive criminal record.

In the winter of 1608 Richelieu went out to his poverty-stricken little bishopric, and for the next six years devoted himself seriously to his episcopal duties.

At the time of the Mutiny the district, which was poverty-stricken and over-taxed, joined the rebels.