Sentence examples for devastated by poverty from inspiring English sources

The transformation of that achievement into a nation riven by political violence, ravaged by Aids and devastated by poverty is a tragedy of epic proportions.

One after another, the stories unfolded — of families devastated by poverty or illness or death, of children forced prematurely to assume the burdens of adulthood — all the way to Case No. 100, about an elderly widow in poor health whose four children "lack for food and clothing".

From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Washington Square Park, Greenwich Village, animalalliancenyc.org/adoptapalooza; free.20110602 African Children's Choir (Saturday) Many members of this singing group come from families devastated by poverty and civil war, but audiences wouldn't know it from their voices.

ABC No Rio has been around even longer -- 22 years -- and to get an idea of what "alternative space" once meant in a Lower East Side context, consider its early history, which dates from a time when the neighborhood was being devastated by poverty, drugs and real estate speculation.

I worked at the U.S.-Mexico border capturing stories of the abuelas whose lives were being devastated by poverty and immigration.

Both organizations are supporting school meals in Mali, another country devastated by poverty and war.

As former slaves left their places of servitude behind, they entered a world of freedom, but also a war zone devastated by disease, poverty and death.

You may recall Claressa Shields as the rose that grew from the concrete of Flint – a depressed Michigan city devastated by unemployment, poverty and, most recently, a shameful water crisis – to capture gold aged 17 in London.

If, somehow, the South became its own country, the Northeast would still be a hub of racially segregated housing and schooling, the West would still be a bastion of prejudicial laws that put immigrants and black residents behind bars at higher rates than their white neighbors and the Midwest would still be full of urban neighborhoods devastated by unemployment, poverty and crime.

They are survivors, statesmen - Sangakkara's MCC lecture about corruption in Sri Lankan cricket in 2011 earned him a standing ovation at Lord's - and beacons of hope for a proud, cricket-mad nation devastated by conflict, poverty and the tsunami of 2004.

Darwish is driven by two things: first, her love of her home country, a place devastated by war, poverty, illiteracy, and extremism in the name of religion; and second, a passion for learning.