Sentence examples for impoverished citizens from inspiring English sources

But the death of the "Dear Leader" could mean a small chance of better times for the country's impoverished citizens.

In addition to rewarding a behavior that we wish to discourage, it will mean responsibility for more impoverished citizens.

And with a population of about 130 million, it has more impoverished citizens than any other African nation.

The new groups might represent progress, but they also fill a need, as Syria copes with growing numbers of impoverished citizens.

Sadly, some states continue to deny social welfare benefits to impoverished citizens with drug felony convictions ("Unfair Punishments," editorial, March 17).

The most impoverished citizens of ancient Rome, unable to store supplies or afford cooking oil, often ate at booths that served what we would now call pizza.

Grants-in-aid are given to social welfare and physical welfare institutions, while the government operates leprosy clinics, as well as homes for the impoverished or otherwise needy citizens.

In his famous satirical essay "A Modest Proposal," Jonathan Swift suggested that impoverished Irish citizens should sell their children as food for the rich.

President Evo Morales has refused to accede to their demands, and instead has earmarked a bigger share of the revenues for impoverished elderly citizens.

It's where we're all eventually headed – the 99%, or at least the 70%, of us, every debt-loaded college graduate, out-of-work school teacher and impoverished senior citizen – unless this revolution succeeds.

Pennsylvania's shameful legacy of corruption and mismanagement has caused 2,500 miles of streams to be totally dead from acid mine drainage; left many miles of scarred landscape; enriched the coal barons; and impoverished the local citizens.