Sentence examples for extraordinary poverty from inspiring English sources

He is a southerner from the minority Ijaw group, and his home region, the Niger Delta, has been mired in extraordinary poverty compared to the rest of the country.

They want less enormous wealth and extraordinary poverty.

The slum's million-plus inhabitants struggle with extraordinary poverty and high crime rates.

They formed a holy collection of blue-collar heroes on both sides of the ropes, each with extraordinary tales of poverty, hardship, starvation and direct links with generations of fighters.

This still extraordinary piece on poverty and homelessness launched Ken Loach's career in campaigning drama, led directly to the founding of charity Crisis, and influenced the national conversation for years; actor Carol White had to refuse money from members of the public convinced she was actually destitute.

Your article talked of "extraordinary progress in reducing poverty".

Rio is the epicentre of global inequality, where extraordinary wealth and angry poverty are rarely more than a few streets away.

As significant, the scale of child poverty is also extraordinary.

Keats's story is amazingly charged: poverty, doomed love, extraordinary natural talent, lingering illness and early death.

He sees in the explosive growth of "aspirational shantytowns" a cure for Third World poverty and an extraordinary profit-making opportunity.

There is intelligent use of photographs and everyday items, while an entire room is devoted to Charles Booth's poverty map, an extraordinary 1888 endeavour which colour-coded every street in London according to its level of wealth.