Sentence examples for harsh poverty from inspiring English sources

Others remained, living with their families in harsh poverty while they paid off their debts.

This is the sertão, the Brazilian outback, a land of cowboys, cactus, drought and harsh poverty.

After several generations of harsh poverty and diminished expectations, for many children and their relatives here going to school has become a matter of indifference.

Once they reached Rawalpindi, her uncle realised she was bright and had potential and decided rather than returning her to a life of harsh poverty in the village, she would stay with his family so she could go to school.

On one side are groups that have long argued that mineral and oil projects in the developing world pollute and foster corruption; on the other are the mining companies and governments of many poor countries, which say that exploiting natural resources can help raise people out of harsh poverty.

So to find the Mozart who was obsessively driven, who pushed boundaries and who lived in a world where harsh poverty and crime were a very real facts, I looked at musicians from our own era to provide some inspiration.

According to this Times Opinion piece it is defined as "reminiscent of the harsh poverty-stricken living conditions described in the works of Dickens".

A few hundred years later, their inhabitants still face harsh conditions: poverty, racism, battles for land ownership and the stripping of identity because of modernization.

If we lacked these gifts, we would be condemned to the harshest of poverties, dependence on our own unaided selves.

We turn our backs on this legacy only at the cost of condemning ourselves to the harshest of poverties: imprisonment in our narrow present, seeing by our own unaided light.

Because of the high levels of poverty, harsh terrain and rough weather conditions, schools are dispersed sparsely.