Sentence examples for despite poverty from inspiring English sources

Despite poverty, she attended school, where the power of her voice was first recognised.

Afflicted with "awful tenacity" by "the vice of literature", doomed to addictive authorship despite poverty, failure and loneliness, his broken heroes somehow transform their misery into "vistas of… beauty and intensity".

Now Russia wants people to leave Norilsk -- only to find that most would rather stay, despite poverty, corrosive pollution from ever-billowing smokestacks and insufferable weather that plunges temperatures below freezing for most of the year.

But my great excitement is the work of Richard Jefferies, born in 1848, the son of a Wiltshire farmer, who wrote the most extraordinary visionary prose about the English countryside despite poverty and ill-health.

The former poet laureate said that Keats's letters "show what a brilliant and kind-hearted and courageous friend he was, as well as his incredible commitment to poetry, despite poverty and getting it in the neck from reviewers and not being able to marry Fanny.

What President Frederick Chiluba of Zambia charges is that the world -- despite having an African as secretary general of the United Nations and despite poverty being concentrated on dark-skinned continents -- runs its aid programs to soothe the white, Eurocentric nerves of the rich countries that pay for them.

We're strong, and despite the hunger, despite the poverty, despite all the problems, we'll make it through".

But if India is indeed a risen power, then it has risen despite its terrible poverty — despite lingering inequality and despite widespread deprivation that has left millions in conditions that are almost medieval.

Despite its poverty, Cuba trains many doctors.

Despite their poverty, Edna adored him.

Despite extreme poverty and destruction Haiti remains relatively peaceful.