Sentence examples for grim poverty from inspiring English sources

The results were grim: poverty, economic stagnation and deep resentment of the United States.

How could Honduras, the original banana republic, reform a political and economic system that kept nearly two-thirds of its people in grim poverty?

Greater Cairo, a densely packed area of about 18 million people, many living in grim poverty, is notorious for its horrendous traffic.

"We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people," she said.

Mr. Vlasov has been Prime Minister of the republic for the last 19 months and will presumably be held accountable to some degree for the grim poverty in parts of Russia.

Seeing grim poverty in and around his father's large estate, he gave up his lucrative law practice in his early 30s and began working with untouchable sweepers and night soil carriers.

Finding themselves living in what one writer called "grim, genteel poverty," they drew on their creativity.

Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, accentuated the silver lining in an otherwise grim census poverty report by declaring: "The Affordable Care Act is working".

Since then, the headlines have been relentlessly grim: corruption, poverty, political dysfunction, violence against women, mistreatment of maids, and the criminalization of homosexuality.

But the evidence is now overwhelming that even in a grim high-poverty school, some teachers have far more impact on their students than those in the classroom next door.

There is no question that these sentiments reflect a grim reality: the poverty level is up.