Sentence examples for almost poverty from inspiring English sources

"It is utterly devoid of idealism and almost poverty stricken as to any real ideas".

Carmine, my grandfather, came to America and it was really because of his skills as a flautist--he was a first chair flautist for Toscanini--that we kind of came out of, I mean really, an almost poverty-like situation.

The great tales about the later Robert Kennedy, the one who had changed and been purified, were almost always about poverty and race.

However, even when participants believe that societal inequities are responsible for a portion of or even most poverty they almost always qualify their responses with a litany of stereotypes: Poor people are lazy.

Children in these families are more likely than ever before to remain mired in poverty or almost-poverty.

"There's this almost structural poverty," said Gladys Carrion, a Bronx-born Puerto Rican who is executive director of Inwood House, an agency that serves pregnant teenagers.

I would like [the candidates] to know that the unemployment rate is so high here and most families live almost in poverty.

His relationship with his adopted father dissolved over time, as he flitted from university to West Point Academy; in the end Poe resolved simply to write.The result was almost perpetual poverty.

On one hand I'm a nurse and I don't get paid a lot of money, and public service almost means poverty; on the other, my quality of life is really enhanced by being able to help people.

A look at his will implies that, besides a life insurance policy payout and two parcels of land in the Dominican Republic, Betances died almost in poverty.

The displaced left their homes with what they could carry, and arrived in communities who live in almost unspeakable poverty.