Sentence examples for bitterly poor from inspiring English sources
But Afghanistan was a bitterly poor country whose people lived a self-sufficient subsistence based on farming and herding, in contrast to largely urban society in Iraq.
One of the more amazing things about Burkina Faso, the land of cinema, is that the average street tough in this bitterly poor country is likely to have a favorite director, and for many it's Mr. Ouedraogo.
I can't ignore who is actually paying the price for this and I don't like the fact that a few commodity traders make billions while the people in the producing countries remain bitterly poor".
He evidently finds the idea of paying a small share of his fortune to keep his country's schools and hospitals and defence running so abhorrent that he would rather stash the vast majority of his cash in the bitterly poor tax haven of Belize.
And he set a new bar for himself in terms of support in a single county, reaching 91.5% of the vote in McDowell county – a bitterly poor area in the heart of coal country – surpassing his previous record of winning 82% of the vote on Staten Island in New York, when the race was still competitive.
After the toppling of the Taliban, the country's bitterly poor farmers turned to the only cash crop that earns them enough to keep their kids alive: opium.
Meanwhile, Jacksonville residents complained bitterly about poor treatment at the hands of Higginson's black soldiers.
As Charles Bowden, the author of "Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields" and the most outspoken commentator, observes bitterly, "The poor bastards are being ground up by a society that doesn't care about them since the day they were born".
Some people, especially the old, sick and poor, smile bitterly at this.
Some poor countries complained bitterly about a so-called green room, where selected delegates haggled over details.
"It is just like apartheid," Nozipho Joyce Mxakato-DiSouth South African leader of the G77 group of 132 poor countries, complained bitterly in October.
