How To Use Impoverished In A Sentence

The residents are mostly impoverished families who survive by collecting recyclable garbage.
In this sense, he saw scientific psychology as anti-life: the more the critical reason dominates, the more impoverished life becomes; but the more myth we are capable of making conscious, the more life we integrate.
The plane in which the Europeans arrive in San Theodoros is shown flying over an impoverished shanty town.
Based on a Korean fairy-tale, this light and witty piece of chinoiserie tells the story of a Mandarin's daughter who is engaged to a rich Ambassador but loves an impoverished youth.
They were impoverished by a prolonged spell of unemployment.

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They are often minorities, almost always impoverished and disabled by their illness.
In this paper, I will try to show that these contributions fail to articulate an adequate concept of embodied personhood for anthropology because they presuppose impoverished notions of semiosis and language.
In the mid-19th century the Norwegian government, eager to colonise with people a terrain it owned in name only, offered free land here to impoverished farmers from the south.
An impoverished call forth a filial son.
I could imagine the garlicked sausages to have been a remnant left in a mouldy cupboard by some impoverished hidalgo of a hundred years back. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
While Kapoor's structure may yet succeed in attracting global attention to an impoverished corner of England, the chants of "We want Gordon Strachan out" which proved the soundtrack to the latter parts of the deserved 2-1 defeat by Leeds United on Saturday evening indicated the Scot is no longer being offered the benefit of the doubt. Gordon Strachan running out of time to revive Middlesbrough's fortunes
The policy, designed to leave families homeless, impoverished and traumatized, is illegal because international law forbids the demolition of houses by an occupying power.
In this kind of inauthentic, aesthetically impoverished fiction, the writer has latched on to fiction as a vehicle for "saying something," not as a form of verbal art in which the work must "say" for itself. John Dewey's *Art as Experience*
Richard Douthwaite is the author of The Growth Illusion: How Economic Growth Enriched the Few, Impoverished the Many and Endangered the Planet.
The anguish caused by Dell's partial exit from Ireland is worthy of a chapter in Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize winning book about historically impoverished Limerick. Analyst: Ireland must learn from Dell plant closure
Even impoverished Southerners snubbed peanuts until food was scarce.
He warned that the breakdown of the family unit would lead to an impoverished society.
She was from a remote and impoverished African village, I had flown in from the other side of the world.
South our meander county also countryside is advance northwest a typical impoverished villages and towns.
A separate Palestinian state would most likely remain unviable and impoverished, whereas a "Jewish" state with a rising non-Jewish minority will increasingly be at odds with the principles of democracy and equality. Letters to the Editor
Here is an impoverished country with a restive population demanding improvements to their lives.
Serbia is convenient because we are impoverished," he said in an interview in Kragujevac. Fiat to Revitalize Tito-Era Factory
Straub spent more than a year living with Franciscan friars working in impoverished areas all over the world, including India, Jamaica, and the United States.
To make their investment lucrative the newly appointed hospodars impoverished the people of Moldavia with high taxes.
Unfortunately the ranks of bewhiskered military men, fashionable in Victoria's imperial times, were rarely replaced by new heroes in the impoverished 20th century.
For example, few of Europe's impoverished universities employ professional fund-raisers.
He apparently calculated to keep his impoverished system afloat and himself in power.
The laterite soil types of the nutritionally impoverished farmlands in the arid and semi-arid regions do not have the capacity to hold moisture.
Literary sources indicate the existence in fourth-century Sparta of a group known as ‘Inferiors’, and impoverished freeborn Spartiates may have been so categorized.
America's entertainment culture was becoming increasingly impoverished: Redford saw independent film as its best hope.
The son of an Italian "carabiniere" -- a member of the Italian paramilitary police -- Marchionne was born and raised in the impoverished central region of Abruzzi. Reuters: Top News
His dusty and impoverished desert nation, after all, is under attack from all sides, rhetorically and literally.
It is true that imagination is in short supply among preachers; our language and diction are impoverished by our lack of imagination.
Each day tens of thousands of parents around the world watch helplessly as their children die from illnesses that can be easily treated with medications that cost only pennies, but which are out of reach to the impoverished.
Our private hopes are encouraged, while our public hopes are impoverished.
One traditionally impoverished group - women - have become more represented in this offence than elsewhere in criminal statistics.
(I agree with Ariel Levy that imitating men's drinking and sexual predation is a rather impoverished view of liberation.) Michael Kimmel: Men -- and Women -- at Yale
But I rebel against the impoverished imagination and ambition of some of what passes for popular fiction and TV and film drama; and it’s in that spirit of rebellion that I set out to write a book full of ‘moreness’. The Big Idea: Philip Palmer « Whatever
On the contrary, the experience of Christ as Creator points us to particular creatures as those objects of God's providential care without which our understanding of the divine identity is impoverished.
It's not because the local cable plant is fossilized or the company is impoverished.
American greed & gluttony is an evil force in the world which is already generating a horrendous amount of suffering among the impoverished today. Sound Politics: Faith-based initiatives
This kind of spoliation, thus reduced to a system, becomes then the most ridiculous of mystifications for every one, and the definite result is that each one believes that he gains more from a general market impoverished by all. Sophisms of the Protectionists
The implication - that Jensen was an impoverished unpublished author - was hardly accurate.
Much of the worldwide loss was the result of impoverished farmers being compelled to clear the land for subsistence agriculture.
Excessive farming had impoverished the soil.
Analytic ethics has been very fairly impoverished given the postivist legacy of emotivism, the formalism of Kantian ethics and the technicalism of utilitarianism.
Such crimes would have deserved the animadversion of the magistrate; but in this promiscuous outrage, the innocent were confounded with the guilty, and Alexandria was impoverished by the loss of a wealthy and industrious colony.
Heavy rain and excessive use have impoverished the soil.
There are worse things to take into adulthood than a student debt - such as a valueless degree, and an impoverished outlook on life.
Knowing who is holding their son and having some idea that the hostage-taking was to raise awareness of impoverished villagers is a crumb of comfort to his worried parents.
He repents his ways and gives the impoverished Cratchit a large pay increase, followed by significant donations to charity.
Violeta Went to Heaven Chile-Argentina-Brazil/World Dramatic; Director: AndrÃ©s Wood; Screenwriter: Eliseo Altunaga; Producer: Patricio Pereira This film tells the story of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, tracing her evolution from impoverished child to international sensation and Chile's national hero, while capturing the swirling intensity of her inner contradictions, fallibilities and passions. S.J. Main: Latino Themed Movies Take the Spotlight at Sundance Film Festival: Mosquita y Mari
With the economy once again on the move and the Olympics and World Cup on the way, there is a certain something in the Rio air right now; a swagger that can be felt not only in Ipanema's luxurious nightspots, but also in the city's impoverished slums – favelas – and remote Amazonian towns where shopping malls and cinemas are sprouting from the ground with growing pace. Lula's Brazil: glitzy, rich, dynamic
British archaeologists are enriched not impoverished if one of their colleagues from another country unearths a key bit of the jigsaw of an ancient civilisation.
A labourer howls in the nothingness of the blank paper, which is also the empty, impoverished land.
Of course notation is an impoverished version of music, but all musicians know that, and approach notated sources appropriately. All your compliments and your cutting remarks / Are captured here in my quotation marks
Our lives would have been greatly impoverished if we had not known our dear friend.
If such integration were the aim, it would immediately have enormous resource implications in an already impoverished education system.
Don Quixote is really an impoverished hidalgo named Alonso Quijano - or is it Quijada?
Sir Humphrey blustered at his only daughter tossing away her chances on an impoverished earl whose family had for generations possessed a reputation for being not quite bon ton. Earl of Durkness
First, those who have either been conditioned out of thinking about such questions or else have glibly assimilated pat religious answers lead impoverished lives.
It is the United States that has suffered from millions of impoverished, illegal aliens coming across the lengthy border.
Our sense of personal past is necessarily impoverished if we see only the partially-accurate picture of the boys in cheder, men in Yeshivas, holy mystics, and bearded businessmen, philosophers, and doctors. New Words for a New Year—Rabbi Leonard Gordon's Sermon
The costs of treatment or even testing for the disease is seen as prohibitive in such impoverished areas.
How did an impoverished North Philadelphia community transform abandoned lots into whimsical sculpture gardens?
She named an old and perpetually impoverished family of the town. NO BODY
Nay, the monster had a certain key of style, or want of style, so that certain milder passages, which I sought to introduce, discorded horribly and impoverished, if that were possible, the general effect. The Wrecker
His heroes were based on the kind of kids he met as orphaned and impoverished newsboys on the streets of New York City.
Aged parents, impoverished families without breadwinners, and young children to support were crucial issues.
Born near St. Marys, Ohio in 1886, Tully experienced an impoverished childhood. Thomas Gladysz: A Jim Tully Revival: Hobo Author Back in Print
Falling coffee prices have impoverished many Third World economies.
The abrading strain of stifling your speech, emotions and actions could easily make life seem interminable or, at a minimum, genuinely impoverished. Book Review: The Appointment by Herta Müller « A Progressive on the Prairie
The one condition produced a concentration of power and responsibility that impoverished private effort and initiative without creating public energy or public wealth.
Accordingly, disruptions resulting from human influence combined with unrelenting and lethal antipathy have created an impoverished environment that may not sustain surviving wolf populations into the future. Chris Genovali: The Death Cults Among Us
Australian soils as with many trace elements have been quite impoverished but most of that has been corrected.
He said the party had impoverished its supporters and predicted that they would turn against the ruling party, no matter how the constituency boundaries were gerrymandered.
I may have an impoverished imagination, but the only explanation that seems to fit is the mundane power of money to corrupt one's beliefs.
It marks the one indisputable trend which will certainly accelerate in the next decade, that the rich will get richer and more successful and, inevitably, become more isolated from the impoverished chasers.
We have seen how a $100 loan through IFAD's micro-credit program enabled an impoverished woman in Bangladesh to open a fish-farm, expand into poultry farming and send her children for higher education. Ambassador Ertharin Cousin: Hunger at Thanksgiving
Heavy rain and excessive use have impoverished the soil.
The black majority were reduced to impoverished peasants and landless labourers.
That's the philosophy of the ‘dacoit ‘bandits who maraud across India's impoverished northern plains.
The film contains extraordinary sequences, particularly those dealing with the impoverished coal miner cousin of one of the male protagonists.
Concurrently, unemployment rates rocketed in these extremely impoverished areas and health care was almost nonexistent.
He warned that the breakdown of the family unit would lead to an impoverished society.
He exhibited his client as a simple-hearted, honest, well-meaning man, who, during a copartnership of twelve years, had gradually become impoverished, while his partner (his former clerk) having no funds but his share of the same business, into which he had been admitted without any advance of stock, had become gradually more and more wealthy. Redgauntlet
In poorer areas, we are miseducating large numbers of children, and we are allowing them to grow up in impoverished and violent environments.
I nodded as I thought about my loving grandparents, Orville and Erma Gray, yet I found it hard to see my dad as the small boy born into the impoverished, undisciplined lifestyle. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad
It's a squitty little island with bad roads and impoverished crofting townships.
Heavy rain and excessive use have impoverished the soil.
Many of the old inadequacies returned: the hesitancy in decision-making, the impoverished tactical acumen.
The shirts will then be distributed to some of the most impoverished areas of the Macedonian capital.
From generation to generation, they tilled land for landlord only to eke out a bare subsistence. People who associated with them as friends were likewise honest impoverished peasants.
Heavy rain and excessive use have impoverished the soil.
Evocative details of impoverished lives are counterpoised against volumes of ocean that separate the so-called first and third worlds.
3. They also say that if a man refuses to give his allod to a bishop, abbot or count, or to a judex or hundredman, these seek opportunities whereby they can harm that poor man and make him go on every occasion to the army, until he is impoverished and hands over or sells his allod, like it or not, while others, who have handed theirs over, stay at home without any trouble. De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Medieval Warfare in the reign of Charlemagne
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. Frank Lloyd Wright
The editorial also put great emphasis on what it called bringing about "a radical turn in the people's standard of living" in impoverished North Korea. News24 Top Stories
A civilization which values -- and indeed consistently rewards -- aggression and reckless self-seeking rather than team work, ethical conduct, conciliation and compassion will end up despoiling the earth for short term profit, going to war for oil and economic dominance, creating an obscenely rich 1 percent at the expense of an increasingly impoverished 99 percent -- and, perhaps worst of all, it will produce unprecedented levels of human misery and spiritual unfulfillment. Richard Schiffman: Nice Guys Finish Last -- Or Do They?
Our lives would have been greatly impoverished if we had not known our dear friend.
The poor barrios of Santo Domingo, however, continue to grow - in part due to migration from impoverished rural areas.
We tend to view the impoverished with fear, discomfort, apathy, annoyance, callousness or resentment.
A lack of warm cantabile tone, tone subtleties and tonal gradation impoverished the rich melodic lines of the mentioned works.
Taymir biodiversity values are intermediate between the higher values in Chukotka and Alaska, which have a more complicated relief, geology, and floristic history, and the lower values in the eastern Canadian Arctic with its impoverished flora resulting from relatively recent glaciation. Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic
In the 1960s, Bhanjdeo organized impoverished tribals and became immensely popular.
“And the same is true,” said I, “of root-crops, such as mangel-wurzel, turnips, etc., but the fact has no other significance than this: If you grow potatoes for many years on the same land and manure them with nitrogenous manures, the soil is likely to be speedily impoverished of potash.” Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject
According to the Neo-Platonic rationalisation, one can only presume that fellatio is an "impoverished" version of penetrative sex, gay sex an "impoverished" version of straight sex, and extra-marital straight sex an "impoverished" version of intra-marital straight sex. Archive 2007-04-01
Peerages could be bought and impoverished baronets survive on the dubious value of their once good name.
In some countries, most notably Venezuela, this vintage left-wing, anti-American fervor is not small, but is predominant, which is what has led that country to be under the repressive thumb of Fidel Castro-copy Hugo Chavez, whose primary interest in attending this Latin American regional summit seems to be to lure Bush and the U.S. into some sort of game of childish taunts rather than doing something constructive to aid his impoverished, unstable country. The reality of Latin American reaction to Bush
Impoverished boroughs of London fail to succeed in providing school facilities for their children.
He can't help but look around, distracted by the vendors selling cooking oil and the mashed vegetable stew called "legume," the rum stands and the ubiquitous lottery shops where impoverished Haitians place tiny quixotic bets. In Haiti's shattered capital, metal scavengers take to the streets
Impoverished, landless peasants make up a large part of the population.
Nor will an imposed contribution result in hardship to an impoverished parent.
One only had to look at the vast amounts of war medals sold for a pittance by impoverished and embittered veterans at flea markets.
Analytic ethics has been very fairly impoverished given the postivist legacy of emotivism, the formalism of Kantian ethics and the technicalism of utilitarianism.
In a fairer world, these impoverished workers might be offered early retirement, not an inducement to die unrested.
Artists dominated by reason lose all feeling, powerful instinct is enfeebled, inspiration becomes impoverished and the heart lacks its rapture.
CW: But how do we deal with the conflicts of interest -- that on one hand we need to support the economic development of the world's most impoverished communities, and on the other -- we need to protect those very resources -- air, water, soil, forests, oceans -- in order to ensure the long-term survivability of those communities? Christiana Wyly: Waxman-Markey Property Rights to the Sky ? Part 3 Interview with Economist James Quilligan
Seven sadder is the fact that these morons have been convinced that spending money to help the impoverished is bad and giving more money to the rich is evil. Think Progress » ExxonMobil paid no federal income tax in 2009. (Updated)
Its collectivist structures impoverished people, despoiled the environment, crushed freedom. Times, Sunday Times
Once an economically impoverished people are educated, they can better understand the reasons for their poverty.
Here we can see how celebrities, whether knowingly or not, can easily exploit the weaknesses of small impoverished states.
Born near St. Marys, Ohio in 1886, Tully experienced an impoverished childhood. Thomas Gladysz: A Jim Tully Revival: Hobo Author Back in Print
As it this was not enough to drain the resource of the mainly Catholic tenants, there was the exaction of money from the impoverished Catholics by the parsons.
It tells the story of Vindici (played in our film by Christopher Eccleston), who, impoverished and dispossessed, returns to court to murder the villainous duke.
A priceless goal midway through the second half was a mercy in this impoverished era for the national side.
Sun's impoverished family set him on this painful, risky path in hopes that he might one day be able to crush a bullying village landlord who stole their fields and burned their house.
Our lives would have been greatly impoverished if we had not known our dear friend.
In their impoverished mountain habitat, they can not afford to waste anything.
What sorts of people were attracted to an impoverished life on the road, a ‘career’ that emphasized one's alienation from upward mobility, a commitment to brutal comedy, grotesquerie, rootlessness?
The road goes through a number of impoverished regions, and it is hoped that construction works will breathe life into them.
Cynics may be forgiven for wondering if there is a correlation in some impoverished countries between the desire to be a priest and the desire to eat.
But such impoverished play was not to be wondered at from the two lowest ranking teams in the Bank of Scotland Premierleague.
But investment by many of our multinationals has not enriched its people but impoverished them.
Unlike so many diplomats and corporate heads who have a duty to be seen to be distributing largesse in impoverished rural areas, Grant was more than merely visible at events.
My atheist critic, speaking for so many of his materialistic brothers-in-arms, says that such a view does not enrich reality: "It's impoverished," he says, "by adherence to magic and superstition. Karl Giberson, Ph.D: My Dead Relatives in the Sky
The IMF was so impoverished by Latin American divestment-which went from 80 percent of its loans to about one percent-that it's been reduced to selling off its gold reserves. Grist - the Latest from Grist
There was one trick, however, that all of them enjoyedthe one where Aya would sail out into the audience, and pick out particularly impoverished-looking children, bringing one back to his bondmate. Widows and Orphans
MAPUTO (AFP) - Mozambican police Monday deployed across impoverished neighbourhoods in the capital Maputo to prevent fresh protests over food prices, after 10 people died in three days of rioting last week. "MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader
Its cities combine modern skyscrapers, suburban houses, and impoverished slums.
Thus by a subtle and most miraculous kind of alchymy did this Catholic cavalier turn worthless paper into precious gold, and make his late impoverished garrison abound in money! Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
An impoverished family can call forth a filial son.
Saskia Van Uylenburgh was the daughter of an impoverished though respected burgomaster and Rembrandt drew and painted her over and over again.
Kgalagadi district is one of the 13 most impoverished districts in the country identified as nodal points for the Integrated Sustainable Rural Development Programme. ANC Today
It didn't quite work out like that: he has been a bank teller and a bookshop assistant, as well as an English teacher and an impoverished student.
No longer the center of an empire, it has become the impoverished capital of a monoglot rump state.
With the decline of the Roman empire, barbarian attacks impoverished and depopulated the frontier provinces, and laid a burden of defense on the empire which overstrained the administrative machinery and its economic resources.
Jacobi's basic thesis is that Fichte's reworking of Kantian transcendental idealism leads to an impoverished egoism which has no knowledge of objects or subjects in themselves.
The sheer diminutiveness of its area, or some other factor, has left Padar impoverished of large vertebrates. The Song of The Dodo
An impoverished, rationed, war-weary continent looked after the lost. Times, Sunday Times
Salvador is located in the southernmost province of the impoverished northeast region of Brazil.
I had a chuckle looking at Oprah so far removed from her own Mississippi roots when she couldn't even lift up a bucket of water to balance on her head, like the young girl she was with here's a clue, Oprah: it's called a bandanna, you wrap it around like a turban, place it on your head, and if positioned correctly, the bucket should balance itself on this apparatus - I'm sure your rural, impoverished grandmother knew something about this, if you had listened to her various instructions instead of daydreaming that you would never do what she was doing; you might have spared yourself the embarrassment of not being able to do what most women of African descent in this world know how to do - but I digress. The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy: Black Feminism, Surrogate Motherhood, or Colonialist Fantasy?
In general, people became sickened by the pictures of Afghani mud towns, in which some of the most impoverished people on earth lived, being pulverized by US bombers.
Britain and France emerged from the war as victors, but as completely impoverished victors.
But behind the bonhomie and poems of friendship, China's relationship with its impoverished southeastern neighbor and erstwhile ally formerly known as Burma is deeply troubled.
At the back however - even against an impoverished Hearts' display - there was no shortage of evidence as to why Killie are languishing near the bottom of the table.
Beside them, lines of impoverished street vendors squat on dirty rush mats, displaying their tawdry collections of cheap plastic keyrings and fake Rolex watches.
Mr. Chevallier believes the secret to the wine's quality is the concentration of flavor produced in the Cabernet Sauvignon, which is achieved by the depths the vines' roots reach into the ground, where the soil is at its most impoverished. The Lafite Phenomenon
But how many times have you used the word evil to describe the untold suffering the Church imposes on impoverished families denied contraception; or the lies told to protect belief; or the propaganda that turns resource wars into holy wars; or the specter of kind-faced volunteers threatening kindergarteners with hell? Valerie Tarico: Should Freethinkers Shun Or Claim The Language Of Spirituality?
Unfortunately, small impoverished regions cannot remain both isolated and liberated for long.
The son of an impoverished Jewish family in Central Europe, he ended up serving in the British army and as an MP before building one of the biggest business empires in the world.
He warned that the breakdown of the family unit would lead to an impoverished society.
He plays the classic anti-hero who drops out of society to join a world of impoverished artists and writers.
Lady Hamilton's reputation has never fully recovered from the public obloquy heaped on her for her affair with Nelson, which led ultimately to her lonely and impoverished death in Calais from alcoholism.
Excessive farming had impoverished the soil.
In these impoverished dense settlements, where both schooling and policing had almost ceased, older rural strategies and conflicts were given a macabre new twist, including the use of necklacing.
We think it is wrong that so many people are impoverished by local taxes.
Saskia Van Uylenburgh was the daughter of an impoverished though respected burgomaster and Rembrandt drew and painted her over and over again.
Many children have grown up economically impoverished and thrived as adults.
Impoverished children who receive Medicaid enjoy better health than children from marginally better-off families who do not qualify for the benefit.
Violeta Went to Heaven Chile-Argentina-Brazil/World Dramatic; Director: Andrés Wood; Screenwriter: Eliseo Altunaga; Producer: Patricio Pereira This film tells the story of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, tracing her evolution from impoverished child to international sensation and Chile's national hero, while capturing the swirling intensity of her inner contradictions, fallibilities and passions. S.J. Main: Latino Themed Movies Take the Spotlight at Sundance Film Festival: Mosquita y Mari
Marva Collins is an American educator who in 1975 started Westside Preparatory School in Garfield Park, an impoverished neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.
Canada was prospering in a material sense; spiritually it was becoming increasingly impoverished.
He admitted that some impoverished farmers sell the crop to third parties who make cocaine for export to Western countries.
William had impoverished himself in the service of the Crown whilst Treasurer of Scotland, leaving a debt of more than £80,000 which King James owed to his son John, when he was restored to his dignities in 1592.
In describing this ‘Australasia’ as marked by an impoverished geology and the aperiodic occurrence of el ninos, Flannery tells a morality tale about what happens when life forms exceed the limits of their environment.
an unwise investor is soon impoverished
While both impoverished and wealthy school districts dine on the booster clubs' cash cow, a handful of local educators say it's time their teams went on a diet.
It is a symptom of an intellectually impoverished time that accepting social responsibility and affirming life should be considered opposites.
His dusty and impoverished desert nation, after all, is under attack from all sides, rhetorically and literally.
The profits are enormous and there is no shortage of impoverished drugs mules prepared to swallow tiny packets of pure cocaine and smuggle them into Britain.
A film less attuned to the reality of how oppression affects human beings would have had the impoverished South African blacks forming some kind of solidarity with their alien brothers, but District 9 has no such pretensions, instead showing that the arrival of the Prawn gives even the poorest, slum-dweller a whole new class of beings, below even them, to exploit for fun and profit. Will Menaker: District 9
Can you imagine, if all those perfectly wrought concrete edges had been reduced to the more easily formed standard splayed edge fillets, how impoverished it would seem to us now?
Meanwhile, the reader's understanding of the situation remains impoverished.
The destruction of the woods, to say nothing of its effects upon the rainfall, caused the top soil to be washed away, and thus impoverished the arable land, filling the rivers with earth, rendering them innavigable, and converting them from gently-flowing streams to devastating torrents, which annually bestrew the valleys and plains with sand and stones. [ Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
Intensive cultivation has impoverished the soil.
fundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete, ineffectual and impoverished
The half island with a population of just 800,000 people is one of the most impoverished countries in the world.
It underlines the ruthless intent of hardliners in the administration to implement the reckless plans to balkanise the country into ethnic impoverished homelands," said the DP's ANC Daily News Briefing
The laborer unsuccessfully pleaded with the company to reconsider, noting that he was the main breadwinner in his otherwise impoverished family.
She's going out with an impoverished young actor.
In their daily lives Americans, and not only those living in smaller communities, lead an impoverished existence.
They are enjoying unprecedented wealth, earning easy money from the lucrative gambling trade which now funds their previously impoverished communities.
Or perhaps they're the impoverished hill farmers that live hard, breadline lives in isolated, public service-free zones of desolation.
The causes are something a historian can study and document: the colonial period where long-standing social orders were overturned to serve colonial interests, and not-so-deep-seated animosities between the two main ethnic groups were exacerbated; the hatred of Tutsis that Hutu regimes inculcated even deeper into peasants for years so that most of these poor people at one point actually began to believe Tutsis were devil-like beings with tails and that killing them was their duty; teaming masses of impoverished urban Hutus (of the kind a Marxist would call the lumpen proletariat) murdering their Tutsi neighbors so they would cart off their property and rape their women (just like peasants murdering their neighbor to take his piece of land), and so endlessly on. AllAfrica News: Latest
He erred, however, in the readiness with which he dispensed them from residence in their dioceses, while, as to abbacies, he too often availed himself of them to reward services rendered by laymen, and gave them as means of support to impoverished nobles. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
The bill is entirely too clever for its own good, painfully complicated in its tinkering instrumentalism, which in the end would do very little and do it too late, like an impoverished family scrounging for dinner money on the eve of their eviction. Christian Parenti: The Big Green Buy: How Government's Purchasing Power Can Drive The Clean-Energy Revolution
He died in 1948, impoverished, half-starved, and all but forgotten.
Away from the army lines and great centers of cities, the suffering was dreadful; impressments stripped the impoverished people; conscription turned smiling fields into desert wastes; fire and sword ravaged many districts; and the few who could raise the great bundle of paper necessary to buy a meal, scarce knew where to turn in the general desolation, to procure it even then. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
The program “deformed” the economy, “impoverished” the population, and laid “a corrupt, inegalitarian foundation for everything that came after it.” The Return

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