Sentence examples for bitter poverty from inspiring English sources

This is very ambitious project which aims mostly to fight bitter poverty in the mountainous and the rural areas.

Tullock's stint in China was crucial to his rent-seeking insight: "See, you go into these cultures where people have produced just immense cultural achievements but are living in bitter poverty, and you discover very quickly they have a dominant government and the government is corrupt.

Sherman has kept close to the authentic choice of dress, scarf, apron, shoes and stockings that had beome a kind of uniform for the Italian women who had opposed the fascists of Mussolini and Hitler, yet who survived to become the heart and soul of Italy as it struggled through the nation's restoration amid bitter poverty.

Bitter widespread poverty is at play.

Today, KwaMashu is a sprawling jumble of cinderblock homes, and lush green hills, mud shacks and twisting dirt roads, a place where the new South Africa still wrestles with its bitter inheritance of poverty, violence and deep-rooted suspicion of the police.

And compared with the standard paper -- whose dizzy take on the American Dream goes like this: "Gatsby is the archetypal hero figure, yet he has tasted the bitter ashes of poverty, but then there were so many poor during the turn of the century that he is not alone in that and so like many others of his age he wished never again to be poor" -- the custom paper is worth coughing up more dough.

As unemployment remained stubbornly high and living standards have sunk further, disillusionment set in, especially among the thousands of university graduates (223,000, or 30percentt of all graduates) torn between a sense of entitlement to prosperity and the bitter reality of poverty and closed horizons.

There is poverty and bitter unfairness still, but most are more prosperous than ever before.

Griffith, who carried the whole film in his head, started with the contemporary story about poverty, a bitter strike and a miscarriage of justice.

WHEN the big Westchester city Yonkers started to go downhill, the slide was speeded by a decaying downtown, pockets of poverty and bitter school segregation battles that created a legacy of racial mistrust.

It sounds prestigious and probably makes me look smarter than I actually am but in fact it's a sure shot way to growing bitter and living in poverty.