Sentence examples for had been impoverished from inspiring English sources

Jaurès was born into a lower middle-class family that had been impoverished by business failures.

At the time, most Indians believed that their country had been impoverished by colonialism.

Several said they had been impoverished by erosion, which has cost many villagers their land.

Archaeological sites were pillaged by a population that had been impoverished by war and drought.

It is as if my humanity had been impoverished," he said.

The urban communities, which had been impoverished during the Thirty Years' War, made no progress toward social and economic recovery.

For too long, Filipinos have been impoverished by bearing the externalized costs of rich countries' development.

As this civic purpose has drained from the vocation, society has been impoverished and teaching has lost authority.

"Since being abandoned by the UK government we have been impoverished and neglected by the policies of successive UK governments.

More than one-third of the land area of India has been impoverished in this way and is lost to agriculture, forests, or forestry.

Take the novella "Sun of China," which follows Ah Quan, a young man from a rural village that has been impoverished by drought.