Sentence examples for great poverty from inspiring English sources
He lived and died in great poverty.
He lived in great poverty for many years, probably in France.
It is in an area of great poverty, with homes of dirt floors and tin roofs.
The son of rural labourers, Saramago grew up in great poverty in Lisbon.
It is not easy to consolidate democracy in Latin America in a framework of great poverty.
The region's great poverty has also resulted in Alagoas having one of the highest emigration rates in Brazil.
Antipoverty programs do help, but their recipients don't move forward because they no longer benefit much from that other great poverty-ameliorating factor, economic growth.
"China is likely to be the first of the great poverty-stricken countries of the twentieth century to end poverty in the twenty-first century," the Columbia economist Jeffrey Sachs wrote in 2005.
▶ A rich miser experiences greater poverty than a beggar.
Instead, the greater poverty of black families did.
Egypt, in addition to far greater poverty and illiteracy, is also wrestling with deep sectarian tensions.
