Sentence examples for desperate population from inspiring English sources

International aid sanctions, imposed after the 2000 elections, helped fuel a downward economic spiral that further impoverished an already desperate population.

On one side, its creditors in Brussels and Washington require unremitting austerity and deep reform; on the other, a desperate population is reaching for less painful prescriptions.

Ever since hippies turned Hebden Bridge into a counter-culture paradise after it was abandoned by a desperate population of redundant mill workers in the early Sixties, the whole Upper Valley has seen wave after wave of idealistic incomers.

But the violence of the militias opens the door -- as it did in 1992 -- to fundamentalism and dictatorship by pushing a desperate population to seek refuge in groups like the Taliban.

He decided that he would bring a small group of child amputees to New York, fit them with prostheses, train the children in using them, and then send them home to be "beacons of hope" to a desperate population.

Archaeologists excavating a trash pit at the Jamestown colony site in Virginia have found the first physical evidence of cannibalism among the desperate population, corroborating written accounts left behind by witnesses.

Desperate populations are beating at our doors and are menacing our ease of life.

As the temperatures rise and the waters swallow up our islands and coastlines, many might be tempted by the promises of Green dictators who impose long-term solutions on desperate populations.

Malaria and measles epidemics are also expected to be a factor when the rains come in October We can save more lives if we act now:  We can prevent more children dying by urgently scaling up our efforts in nutrition, access to safe water and health and bringing these services to the most desperate populations within Somalia.

"I just think it's preying a little bit on an incredibly frustrated and desperate patient population," she said.

If atrocities begin to be documented the already desperate local population may turn on the blue helmets.Already several compounds have been attacked and UN vehicles set ablaze.