Sentence examples for dire impoverishment from inspiring English sources

They are not all vulnerable to such hideous cruelty, but entrenched inequality is trapping families and communities in a cycle of dire impoverishment that has worsened as a result of the financial crisis.

The dire situation in Gaza was of Israel's making, created out of deliberate impoverishment and violence.

Impoverishment and famine followed.

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.

All this represents a huge impoverishment.

So far, so dire.

Conditions remain dire.

The consequences were dire.