Sentence examples for growing impoverished from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Economic divides are growing between impoverished areas of the north and the wealthier south.

In a 1999 piece on race in hip-hop, The New York Times lumped them together as admitted outsiders "using rap to speak about growing up impoverished and white".

"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.