Sentence examples for blight of poverty from inspiring English sources

Gradually the conversation moved to more serious topics, and Dr. King himself talked about the blight of poverty on our national life, as well as his feelings against the Vietnam War.

Whatever views are held, surely here is an opportunity for the established church to once more ask the nation to remember in prayer all who now suffer from the blight of poverty and unemployment.

But when the 86-year-old Peruvian arrives in Rome this week as a key speaker at a Vatican event, he will be welcomed as a guest, in a striking show of how Pope Francis – the first Latin American pontiff – has brought tenets of this sometimes controversial movement to the fore of his church, particularly in his pronouncements against the blight of poverty and the dangers of capitalism.

Sometimes metaphors can make social phenomena seem natural rather than political – for instance, in the pervasive metaphor of poverty as a disease: "the blight of poverty".

"Sweet Sixteen" shows that he's as capable of anger as his protagonist and just as eager to draw attention to an unchanging problem: the blight of generational poverty.

The archbishop of York has attacked the "new and terrible" blight of food poverty and increasing malnutrition in Britain, questioned the effects of the government's welfare reforms and called for a renewal of the postwar spirit that hungered for "a more equitable, more caring world".

The blights of urban poverty, surging crime rates, illegal immigration and homosexuality had yet to be invented.

He finds a land awash in oil money and opportunity yet blighted by pockets of poverty and desolation.

And it has been a hard lesson for the Guardian, and probably for its generous readers, to understand how difficult it is to use aid to the greatest effect, how slow the turnaround will be and how many lives will continue to suffer the blight of disease and poverty.

Her archives of pictures, films, and voice recordings reveal a fascination with rape and murder, urban blight and the ravages of poverty, the brutality of the city stockyards, political unrest.

Urs al-Bahr is based in an apartment in Ajami, a run-down quarter of Jaffa, which is blighted by high levels of poverty and unemployment.