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It was the latest in a series of violent incidents that have once again highlighted the problems and discrimination linked to caste, particularly in lawless and impoverished rural areas.
The group wants to create an Islamic state in Nigeria, which it claims would halt crippling corruption that keeps 70% of the people in Africa's richest nation impoverished.
The subject matter might seem bleak – drug addicts on sink estates, impoverished and abused children in the slums of Mumbai, a mountain climber forced to sacrifice a limb – but Boyle's films are never hopeless.
Given how impoverished this vision is, a casual onlooker could hardly be faulted for concluding that networked information technology is something that will never furnish contemporary city-dwellers with the architecture of participation they deserve.
The aid has gone disproportionately to businesses in Camden, a city of 77,000 that ranks among the nation's most impoverished.
Elsewhere schemes helping impoverished pupils attend school have often been incredibly simple.
Tsipras, who at 40 is Athens' youngest prime minister ever, was swept to power on promises to increase the minimum wage, reinstate employees fired from the state sector and 'cancel' the austerity that has impoverished more than a third of the nation at large.
They were "Scottish exceptionalists", those nationalists who believed Scotland was preeminent and would vote yes even if it impoverished the country, and "blue collar Bravehearts", those working class, largely male, voters who identified themselves as Scottish, not British.
In contrast to the Catholic church Voltaire fought – an authoritarian near-monopoly – Eisenberg, like Carey, sees Islam in today's France as a religion providing succour to the "embattled, marginalised, impoverished and victimised", a population for whom the cartoons "must be seen as intended to cause further humiliation and suffering".
The impoverished west African nation of Gambia said it will take all Rohingya refugees as part of its "sacred duty" to help fellow Muslims.
The worst-ever outbreak of the virus has claimed almost 3,700 lives in the impoverished west African nation, one of three countries that have seen their economies wrecked and healthcare systems obliterated in the crisis.
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The word "impoverished" functions primarily as an adjective , modifying nouns to describe a state of poverty or deprivation. As Ludwig AI points out, it signifies a condition of lacking essential resources or qualities.
Expression frequency: Common
