Sentence examples for impoverished border from inspiring English sources

EDINBURG — Many of the longest lives in Texas are lived in an unlikely place: along the state's impoverished border with Mexico.

Dozens of gray compartments, lined neatly in rows, inhabit a boxy concrete building on the edge of the impoverished border town of Presidio.

Having, for now, turned away from plans to dam the Nu, local politicians are poised to push ahead with plans to develop tourism in the impoverished border region.

After all, I was raised in the small, impoverished border town of Calexico, California to a family of migrant farm workers.

The initial fury was focused on the Rohingya, a Muslim minority widely reviled in Myanmar and a large segment of the population in Rakhine, an impoverished state bordering Bangladesh.

In 1962, he died impoverished near the border of Ladakh.

After all, Pakistan had launched a murderous campaign against the Bengalis, leaving India's impoverished and volatile border states to cope with ultimately some ten million refugees fleeing the carnage.

Just northwest of Mafraq is Ramtha, an impoverished city across the border from Dara'a, birthplace of the rebellion, that has become a haven for Syrians.

Although it is still relatively rare for temples to close, many districts are so short on monks that abbots here in northern Thailand recruit across the border from impoverished Myanmar, where monasteries are overflowing with novices.

In smaller outposts, like Khost, an impoverished village on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Internet connections are also made through satellite links, and may be limited to a handful of computers housed in military tents.

April 16, 2009 - There was a time when the common assumption about United States-bound immigration was about impoverished people crossing the border searching for work to improve their economic situation.