Sentence examples for encounter with poverty from inspiring English sources

His monumental (fifty-seven by seventy-four inches) portrait of the eight members of the Ayvar family, in Lima, is a rare encounter with poverty.

Osborne's first encounter with poverty came early when she volunteered during a summer break in high school.

Others were moved by a personal encounter with poverty or misfortune.

It was one of the most shocking encounters with poverty and the United States' relation to one of its territories.

One response that did unsettle Christensen came because of something he said – and now regrets – in the wake of his encounter with abject poverty in south-east Asia, including the infamous "Smoky Mountain" community based around a rubbish dump in the Philippines.

Miller in a sense is the ideal exemplar of Mr. Wiser's larger cast of characters, the man unable to realize himself in his puritanical homeland whose energetic encounter with bracing poverty and anything-goes eroticism in Paris is not only liberating but also leads to artistic success.

The material, which Gulati slyly referred to as "change-the-world stuff," is mostly drawn from his travels and his encounters with global poverty.

With an uneasy sense of commonality, she pushed — something she does again and again in her life — and visited his home; it was her first genuine encounter with the deprivations of poverty.

12 They also experience higher rates of coercive sexual encounters and sex trade involvement as a means of coping with poverty and homelessness.

Hardship associated with poverty affects learning even before children start primary school, and those who encounter difficulties early on face an uphill struggle to catch up.

After repeated encounters with what works and what doesn't, and after listening to and spending time both with people struggling with poverty and people finding their way out of it, I've come to a handful of core beliefs.