Sentence examples for desperate impoverishment from inspiring English sources

His wartime childhood in the Bashkirian capital of Ufa was one of desperate impoverishment, but when he was seven his mother smuggled him into a performance of the famous Soviet ballet The Song of Cranes, and his destiny was set.

They are contributing to the enrichment of a few officials and the further impoverishment of already desperate nations.

What a dreadful impoverishment.

Impoverishment and famine followed.

The impoverishment runs deep.

Female inequality is universal impoverishment.

Desperate times, desperate measures.

New poverty builds upon old impoverishment.

Where some see enrichment, others see impoverishment.

"That can be a real impoverishment.

They must choose between work or impoverishment.