Sentence examples for debilitating poverty from inspiring English sources

"They find themselves in a vicious cycle of debilitating poverty, lost self-confidence and a never-ending struggle to meet their most basic needs".

The fear of Boko Haram has forced many parents to withdraw their children from schools, and this can only add to an already explosive mix of the large pool of uneducated and unemployed youth and debilitating poverty.

Married off when she was 13 to a man she discovered later was a drug addict, she struggled with violence and debilitating poverty, working 16-hour days at a brick kiln to support her family as her husband sold off the family possessions.

Among them are an overwhelming, debilitating poverty that has outlasted a near decade of prosperity, and Mr. Giuliani's extraordinarily successful campaign to cut welfare rolls, which have fallen by more than 50percentt from their 1977 totals of close to a million.

Surely, Ward's own vicissitudes from debilitating poverty to public recognition as Cambridge Professor of Mental Philosophy are reflected in his grand vision of reality as comprising an indefinite number of conative subjects obstinately striving to achieve self-realization and social harmonization; in this only sustained, as he was wont to say, by 'faith in light to come' (1927: 66).

In an age that has seen the rich grow absurdly, unprecedentedly rich and the poor decline into abject, debilitating poverty, Sanders is the only major presidential candidate willing to sufficiently problematize the ever-widening wealth gap in our nation and world, and to offer revolutionary solutions to restore a level of economic equality consistent with a free society.

The effects of poverty are debilitating, particularly on those with disabilities, taking an insidious and progressive toll on emotional, physical, mental and spiritual well-being, and leaving many individuals without hope or belief that they can achieve the American Dream.

Imagine, what would have been the difference if the more than two trillion dollars wasted on a senseless war were instead spent on our crumbling infrastructure and aiding hundreds of debilitating communities living in abject poverty and squalor.

As Warren Buffett put it, "All these people who think that food stamps are debilitating and lead to a cycle of poverty are the same ones who want to leave a ton of money to their kids".

If certain kinds of thought required devices like paper and pens, then the kind of poverty that precluded them looked as debilitating as a brain lesion.

'We are victims of NHS errors and in addition to living with life-threatening, debilitating illnesses, most of those who have not died are living in acute poverty.