Sentence examples for desperate poverty from inspiring English sources

In many countries, desperate poverty leads to devastating civil wars.

He seems instead to blame desperate poverty and greed.

I didn't struggle with alcoholism or desperate poverty.

Anil, driven by the desperate poverty found work in a brick kiln in a neighboring state.

But "La Camioneta" is not a graphic exposé of the horrors born of desperate poverty.

Desperate poverty was present too but never reached a socially dangerous level.

Many had been kidnapped in China or sold there by families in desperate poverty.

But while Maud finesses her artistic skills, she lives in the most desperate poverty.

The work was noted for its realistic depiction of desperate poverty in Harlem.

Their fall from privilege to desperate poverty and worse was steep and final.

But we found evidence of desperate poverty even in the capital.