Sentence examples for believed poverty from inspiring English sources

In 2004, less than two months after his confirmation as housing secretary, Mr. Jackson told a House panel that he believed poverty "is a state of mind, not a condition," provoking strong criticism.

Forty-two percent of American adults in total believed poverty was due to a lack of effort, while 53percentt believed it was due to difficult circumstances. .

A follower of Thaler's theories, Bryan believed poverty-alleviating efforts could be much more effective by applying insights from the behavioral sciences - making giving the norm, not the exception.

Mrs. Ratre, 52, her face a mask of sorrow, says she believes poverty killed her daughters.

Eleven-year-old Tarun from the Bashantek slum children's group believes poverty is the main cause of early marriage.

Slyme believes poverty is caused by personal failings: "when it comes to poverty what a grown man must do is conquer hisself".

Damningly, many economists believe poverty levels in Venezuela are now higher than they were when Chávez won power 18 years ago.

Yet many critics believe poverty and social problems are caused not by design but by deeper structural problems such as education and employment opportunities.

Besides, those Marie Antoinette-style guides to make-believe poverty sprang in large part from the keyboards of comfortably-off journalists whose mortgage payments had just been shrunk to a dinkily modest size by a – still unchallenged – post-crisis policy of near-zero interest rates.

An equal number believe price inflation represents the most significant problem they face, while half of respondents (49%) believe poverty to be the most pressing, and almost as many (43%) identified unemployment as the most acute issue.

I believe poverty should be eradicated.