Sentence examples for greatest poverty from inspiring English sources

The highest crime areas are those of greatest poverty and disadvantage.

In states with massive rural populations, notably in the north and the east, where the greatest poverty persists, the birth rate remains very high.

She kept saying that the greatest poverty in the world today is to be unloved, unwanted and uncared for, and that's a harder and more difficult poverty to reach.

Overall, five of the 13 local authorities with the greatest poverty are in the capital, showing that though London may be booming, many Londoners are missing out on the benefits of the buoyant economy.

Gomes believes that the greatest poverty of the modern age is its lack of high moral ideals against which to measure oneself; he has strong feelings about the importance of maintaining a community that stands apart from the secular culture, not as its reflection but as its guide.

In one, I came out in a footnote on the seventh page, amid pompous but heartfelt quotations from Wallace Stevens: "The greatest poverty is not to live / In a physical world, to feel that one's desire / Is too difficult to tell from despair".

China, the greatest poverty-alleviation success story of the last generation -- 28 million Chinese people were lifted out of poverty every year between 1990 and 2008 -- barely participated in the MDGs.

He lived and died in great poverty.

▶ A rich miser experiences greater poverty than a beggar.

Instead, the greater poverty of black families did.

It is in an area of great poverty, with homes of dirt floors and tin roofs.