Sentence examples for has become impoverished from inspiring English sources

In the rich world the idea of progress has become impoverished.

As a result, much of the inland has been overgrazed, and its original fauna has become impoverished.

In the history of mankind there are precious few examples of a country or region that has become impoverished for having opened its borders, nor is there a single nation that has made progress by closing itself off to trade.

Susan Schulman travelled to West Papua in Indonesia to report on claims from indigenous groups that they have become impoverished since a gold mine began operating in the 1970s.

The restrictions were lifted in 1992, but religious scholars say the church had become impoverished by that time, reliant on the wealthy and with a mentality of "no mete en la política" — don't get into politics.

"However, we can speculate that if the trajectory of dinosaurs continued as it was at that time, dinosaurs would eventually have become impoverished in terms of species numbers -- and may have gone extinct all together".

Now, the missionaries are gone and the communities they left behind have become "impoverished ghettos of alcoholism, petrol sniffing, brutality, arrests and early deaths".

Arab Jerusalemites have become impoverished, with three-quarters of them living below the poverty line.

When voters chose Tsipras's Syriza, it put the country on a path toward becoming Argentina, which, after a decade of populist rule, has become an impoverished, isolated country mired in stagflation.

Instead, that city, in its day Iraq's number two, has become an impoverished shadow of its former economic glory.

If we lost the waiver for this home care, I guess we'd have to let ourselves become impoverished to the point where we could qualify for ordinary Medicaid, which would then have to pay for our incarceration in a nursing home — probably at a much higher cost.