How To Use Poverty-stricken In A Sentence
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When he received the chance, he left the poverty-stricken nation and headed to Italy.
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A row of houses followed the crest of the ravine, some built of small logs, and some of shiplap lumber which had cracked with exposure to the sun, but all having a neglected and poverty-stricken air.
The Intriguers
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The advance of militarism has produced a huge organisation of careerist officers and enlisted unfortunates, young people who see service as a way out of one or another poverty-stricken ghetto.
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Born to a poverty-stricken family, she dragged herself out of the gutter to become one of the wealthiest people in Britain today.
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Aged and poverty-stricken army officers would drive up to the doorstep behind rickety old horses and in rickety carryalls.
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
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They are trying to build up funds to relieve the poverty-stricken families.
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A retired teacher is preparing to take part in a mercy mission to give poverty-stricken children in Eastern Europe a Christmas to remember.
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That was my cover story, at least, sworn to secrecy as I was, on the awesome news of the Tähtivaeltaja Award -- and thereby sworn to secrecy also on the further awesomeness of Toni Jerrman and Hanna Hakkarainen who'd connived to bring this poverty-stricken writer over and put me up for a week, bless em.
Archive 2010-06-01
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The academy subsidised poverty-stricken exiles and gave a voice to a huge community of intellectuals scattered across the globe.
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It is a poor, isolated place, full of poverty-stricken villagers and their malnourished children.
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This situation keeps poor farmers in developing countries poverty-stricken.
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He describes his experiences in the poverty-stricken country.
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Corruption, for example, is widespread in poverty-stricken countries.
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A battle over land ownership of the south's land is another fight this poverty-stricken country can scarcely afford.
Times, Sunday Times
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We may observe in passing that similar tendencies are at work even in some of the richest countries, where they manifest as a trend toward excessive urbanization, toward "megalopolis", and leave, in the midst of affluence, large pockets of poverty-stricken people, "drop-outs," unemployed and unemployables.
Chapter 10
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In poverty-stricken neighbourhoods of the city, the vast majority of children must work, often doing back-breaking manual labour for a few pounds a day.
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It is a simple but engrossing thriller set around an under-resourced hospital in a poverty-stricken township.
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But once we move beyond these misimpressions, we can consider Gatess central vision: The creative reach of a capitalist economy can and should be extended to provide vaccines, mosquito nets, and other tools for public health in poverty-stricken countries, andmost visionaryto provide new technologies particularly suited to those countries.
Creative Capitalism
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The house also has aged - it looks small and poverty-stricken despite its attempts at ennoblement, and has not been maintained.
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The poverty-stricken young Joe rigged up a make-do punchbag in his rickety garden shed.
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Isolated and poverty-stricken, few have jobs, and the community is plagued by alcohol abuse.
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They are trying to build up funds to relieve the poverty-stricken families.
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The antiserum that came out of this research would eventually rein in diphtheria, although it still appears in congested, poverty-stricken populations where sanitation is poor.
March 15, 1854: Diphtheria's Foe
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Other such jobs follow, short-lived, often back-breaking, alternating with drifting poverty-stricken in the city, sleeping in alleys and telephone booths.
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The Fronde left behind it a sense of littleness, of poverty-stricken humanity, and this particular frondeur had seen the mask drop from the features of his fellow-men.
Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France
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Among the poverty-stricken urban dwellers children often work as mechanics' assistants, tea sellers, or maidservants.
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He claims that his purloined oil is sent to a crude refinery deep in the mangrove swamps of the Niger Delta and then sold off at a discount to poverty-stricken local people.
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Everything conspires, therefore, to isolate and ignore that poverty-stricken world and leave it to its own devices.
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He damned himself for being in love with a woman who had no love for him in return, only ambition to rule a poverty-stricken country with a dictator as a husband.
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Blacks are expected to exercise their political ambitions in unviable, poverty-stricken, arid, bantustan homelands, ghettoes of misery, inexhaustible reservoirs of cheap black labor, bantustans into which South Africa is being balkanized.
Desmond Tutu - Nobel Lecture
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The poverty-stricken young Joe rigged up a make-do punchbag in his rickety garden shed.
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The only large building is the Jami or Cathedral, a long barn of poverty-stricken appearance, with broken-down gates, and two white-washed minarets of truncated conoid shape.
First footsteps in East Africa
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You can buy and donate resources to poverty-stricken areas, or help with other humanitarian efforts and causes.
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That both she and her murderer were stranded in a poverty-stricken, undrained marshland infested with malaria served only as an example of how free will could triumph over the environment.
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She, an heiress and once "gentle, neurotic creature", is now poverty-stricken; a "hag" spewing misery, resentment and, throughout the length of this sprawling, at times exhausting, novel, vivid threats of suicide and infanticide.
The Man Who Loved Children – review
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I saw people who are poverty-stricken but extremely rich within.
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Another pro-nudism argument in poverty-stricken Brazil is that nakedness strips people of their social differences.
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Yet as one who recognized that socialism cannot thrive in poverty-stricken conditions, he would have understood perfectly how the Russian revolution came to be lost.
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Would it matter if they were from poverty-stricken foreign lands, steeped in other religions and alien cultures?
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The poverty-stricken widow always congratulated herself upon its conclusion, and it never occurred to her that the amount of work that Birt did in the tanyard was a disproportionately large return for the few days that the tanner's mule ploughed their little fields.
Down the Ravine
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Well, about 14 percent of the U.S. population would be considered poverty-stricken by that standard.
If We're All Middle-Class, Who Do We Help?
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The neglected poverty-stricken landscape of Motown is captured throughout the film by the trailer homes, abandoned buildings and jalopies in shades of muted gray, browns, greens and rust.
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Both the countries are unmindful of the consequences of a war, oblivious of a conventional war turning into a nuclear one as both the Third World poverty-stricken nations possess the demonic nuclear weapons.
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The debt of a poverty-stricken family trying to get enough to eat is not the same as a company reaching beyond its means to take on debt.
Christianity Today
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There, entering the temple precincts, was a poverty-stricken couple with a baby almost six weeks old!
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The woman's later life is described as lonely and poverty-stricken.
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Some beggars are neither poverty-stricken nor homeless.
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In the poverty-stricken countryside, the situation is only going to deteriorate after WTO entry triggers imports of cheap foreign grain.
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Can it be right to demand so much of such a young child, however great his talent appears and however wretched a life sold by his poverty-stricken mother to a pedlar who beat him he had led before?
TV review: Leaving Amish Paradise; Kidult: Marathon Boy
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There are few jobs for the peasants who have flooded into the cities from the poverty-stricken countryside in search of work.
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Some beggars are neither poverty-stricken nor homeless.
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The poverty-stricken viceroyalty of Sardinia contributed little, Sicily somewhat more; most of the burden fell on Naples.
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Others are the lost and lonely, the homeless and poverty-stricken.
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He was not a poverty-stricken peasant's son looking to escape penury.
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Because of the demographic and social economic characteristics of poverty-stricken population, they are vulnerable by disease risk.
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Even in their poverty-stricken condition, they could not forget that their father had once been a land-owner.
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Soaring plume prices coupled with a poverty-stricken, rough-hewn populace contributed to a true ‘tragedy of the commons.’
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So much for all those well-intentioned statements in recent weeks about aid to poverty-stricken developing countries.
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But when the spotlight faded from the poverty-stricken country, help dried up.
The Sun
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As a child he sold peanuts on street corners and eked out a hand-to-mouth existence as a shoeshine boy on the poverty-stricken streets of Sao Paulo.
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The church must extend its evangelistic program into all of the poverty-stricken and slum areas of the big cities, thereby touching the individuals who are more susceptible to criminal traits.
A Renegade History of the United States
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There is immoral, unethical and illegal prosperity on the one side and poverty-stricken people who are moral and ethical on the other.
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He provides a heart-rending account of the daily torment of sheer survival in this most poverty-stricken country in Asia.
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•TV's best family drama, Friday Night Lights (tonight, 8 ET/PT), begins its NBC stint with Coach Taylor (Kyle Chandler) transferred to poverty-stricken East Dillon High.
Critic's Corner Weekend: 'Friday Night Lights,' 'The Pacific'
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His mission was to capture the poverty-stricken lives of rural sharecroppers.
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Some beggars are neither poverty-stricken nor homeless.
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Only a handful of countries, mostly poverty-stricken, recognize the Republic of China, the official name used by Taiwan, as a country.
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Les Brown and his twin brother were adopted by Mamie Brown, a kitchen worker and maid, shortly after their birth in a poverty-stricken Miami neighborhood.
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We will increase support for old revolutionary areas, ethnic minority areas, border areas and poverty-stricken areas.
