Sentence examples for grow impoverished from inspiring English sources

"If we eradicate wolves or lower their numbers, the whole system will grow impoverished and collapse".

The war saw both cities change dramatically, with their once travel-loving middle classes growing impoverished, educated youths fleeing and refugees pouring in.

Its churches -- having survived, in the last quarter century, Marxist rule, a civil war and the effects of a recent war between Ethiopia and Eritrea -- have grown impoverished, bereft of the tourists who sustained them.

Haitians are living and dying in filth with the real threat of coming hurricanes poised to wash them all away, an outcome that some say is what the elite there wants to do with the country's growing impoverished population.

Naam's father, a physician, grew up impoverished in Egypt; three of his siblings died as infants.

"A few days ago, the spokesperson for the ministry of foreign affairs, Hong Lei, said shamelessly that China is a country ruled by law," said Chen. "But how can a law-governed state allow party leaders to conduct illegal activities in its citizens' houses?" Chen grew up in impoverished Dongshigu village in Linyi city and began elementary school when he was 17.

The impact of growing up impoverished overwhelms these children's genetic capacities.

For kids growing up impoverished in Harlem, Brooklyn or the Bronx, clothes were the most obvious and accessible status symbols.

That meant songs about drug dealing, about growing up impoverished, about questionable behavior toward women, about triumphing over adversity through hustle and capitalism.

Indeed, there is a widespread sense of being dispossessed as citizens who have grown increasingly impoverished watch leaders, their families and cronies prosper.

Born in 1938 in East Harlem, Mr. Bullard grew up impoverished as the son of a black father, who was a plumber, and a Puerto Rican mother who raised five children.