Sentence examples for combat squalor from inspiring English sources

To combat squalor, social housing.

The dingy and cluttered rooms, lighted bright as day for a split-second exposure, are immediate and revelatory, and remain extraordinarily persuasive as evidence of the squalor Riis sought to combat.

In the circumstances that prevail today, they are especially bereft of means to combat the afflictions that beset us: involuntary unemployment, environmental degradation, public squalor and a marked diminution of the state's capacity to serve the interests of its people (in contrast to its economic elites), even as productive capacities increase.

As Sylvia's husband tells them of the squalor of Uzbekistan, the Nygrens and the Söderblads unheedingly pursue their verbal combat.

Every time we lift one child above the squalor of the slums… Every time we rescue one teenage soldier pressed into combat or one young girl pushed into prostitution or forced labour… Every time we cure one mother afflicted by disease, and give her and her children a chance in life… We are making a difference.

Squalor everywhere.

"It was borderline squalor".

But squalor connects.

"It was squalor, mayhem.

The preoccupation with squalor.

I thrive on squalor".