Sentence examples for a time of poverty from inspiring English sources

Editorials compared the opulence to Hollywood sets and condemned the costs at a time of poverty among the living.

Born shortly before Napoleon's demise in a time of poverty and filth Sarphati's Amsterdam was one of fading glory.

At the end of the 19th century, a time of poverty and economic depression, Danish farmers survived by establishing agricultural and dairy cooperatives.

"People have been impoverished and decided that having kids at a time of poverty and misery is not the right thing to do, so they cut back," Mr. Macura said in a telephone interview from Geneva.

The creators of "Fiddler" chose to return the audience to a happier time -- a time of poverty and hard labor, but before the terrible loss of innocence that World War II brought.

Indeed, a basic fact of life today is that most Vietnamese, whether rural or urban, were born after the war, and are the first for many generations to be raised in a time of peace (although it is also a time of poverty).

She has described her first year or so in Edinburgh as a time of "abject poverty," or "grinding poverty".

It is a time of great poverty, grisly death (usually inflicted on puppets) and enormous reversals of fortune.

In an interview, Ms. Quinn said that, at a time of rising poverty and budget cuts, the city should not be spending money on unnecessary enforcement measures.

But it is also very funny, as it shows British beef being sent to France during a time of great poverty, with French priests salivating over the meat and a crowd of poor, hungry French people in the background.

But exploitation is rife in many industries, including the agricultural, domestic and service industries, particularly at a time of increasing poverty, decreasing wages and insecure employment, and no one suggests that domestic work or fruit-picking should be banned.