impoverishment

How To Use impoverishment In A Sentence

• This impoverishment has further increased the incidence of petty corruption.
• It is what Freud called in a memorable phrase, an impoverishment of the ego on a grand scale.
• She was a tough woman of unyielding principle, standing up in protest against war, injustice and conditions of impoverishment.
• For the majority of blacks, the New Deal at first meant further impoverishment.
• Perhaps it was unavoidable, yet it was a road that led past ruin, default and penury, through the plunder of Russia and the impoverishment of Russians.
• This only served to exacerbate landlordism, the impoverishment of the peasantry and the deep-seated hostility to the British occupation.
• I have always considered it a great impoverishment of narrative art when, in our secular fanaticism, we banish religion or philosophy to escape from the deep existential questions.
• All too often, wars are self-perpetuating: conflicts generate more conflict and inevitably bring death, impoverishment and destruction in their wake.
• During times of impoverishment, the jewelry may be sold to provide family resources.
• Many developing and poor nations, however, are stuck in a quagmire of debt and impoverishment, no matter how much assistance they receive.