Sentence examples for Downtrodden communities from inspiring English sources

In her second Chelsea solo, the photographer Zoe Strauss continues to develop her socially incisive portraits of downtrodden communities.

Regarding public works programmes, Obama has a unique opportunity to harness a public desire for service, for renewing a sense of possibility among downtrodden communities.

In downtrodden communities like Rocky Mount, where unemployment has doubled to 14percentt in a year, the recession has heightened the struggle.

Given that Mr. Pataki foresees an institution with perhaps 500 employees and an annual budget of $50 million or so, the officials, particularly in downtrodden communities like Newburgh, described it as a crucial shot in the arm.

Waves is an organization that combines surfing with volunteering in downtrodden communities — surf volunteerism — to help the people of those communities in both social and economic ways.

It even survived a visit to Kosovo's most downtrodden community, the Roma, discriminated against under both the old regime and the new.

Every night for the past year or so, Adriana and Omar Chavez have slept in an RV parked in East Palo Alto, a downtrodden community in Silicon Valley.

A Shiite Awakening: 1960 82 Lebanon's Shiites, long the country's poorest and most downtrodden community, come to political self-consciousness starting in the 1960s under Musa Sadr, a charismatic Iranian-born cleric.

All in all, it was quite a turn of events for an always proud but formerly downtrodden community that, at least to others who did not live there, was located on the wrong side of the tracks.

Lebanon's Shiites, long the country's poorest and most downtrodden community, come to political self-consciousness starting in the 1960s under Musa Sadr, a charismatic Iranian-born cleric.

It also serves as a powerful metaphor for the role faith can play in bringing a downtrodden community together and/or tearing it apart.