Sentence examples for dreadful poverty from inspiring English sources

K. now lived with a wife & child in dreadful poverty.

This has always been the case: The industrial revolution brought dreadful poverty, only ameliorated by the efforts of philanthropists, charitable institutions and eventually state regulation of the market to ensure a degree a social equity.

The book is 642 pages long, and the first half of it, after completing the genealogical survey of northern Colombia, records the dreadful poverty that García Márquez and his wife and two sons endured before 1967, when "One Hundred Years of Solitude" finally lifted him into the comforts of multiple-home ownership and, in 1982, the Nobel Prize.

"I was earning and I had a mortgage, but I felt like I was in dreadful fuel poverty.

Mr Blunkett grew up blind, in dreadful Sheffield poverty, the son of a factory foreman who died in a factory accident and whose family did not have enough money to give his grave a headstone.

He used to take me down the docks to get the men organised, and they'd say, 'Here's Johnny and the kid.' "The poverty was dreadful.

They are turning disadvantages (such as poverty and dreadful distribution systems) into strengths, much as the Japanese invented just-in-time production to compensate for their lack of storage space.

Now though, I think the line between four men who dress as their favourite characters from Baldur's Gate and wallop each other with foam swords, and four men who dress as their favourite post-punk heroin addicts from the 1980s and wallop their audiences with dreadful melodies and faux poverty-porn lyrics is very, very fine.

To understand just how overdue it is, one need look no further than the absolutely dreadful data issued this week by the Census Bureau about the increasing numbers of people falling into poverty.

India's dreadful politicians, he suggests, may be mostly motivated by a terror of slipping back into the nameless poverty from which they sprang.

She wrote in her autobiography: "They used to tell me their stories, dreadful stories some of them, and all of them pathetic with that patient and uncomplaining pathos of poverty".