Even for the affluent, everyday American life is often remarkably impoverished, if measured in terms of free time, social connectedness, political engagement, meaningful work, or other things harder to calibrate than the horsepower of your engine or the square feet of your McMansion.
It is a measure of impoverished ambitions that, according to presidential aides, there are no more big plans on the table after pension reform.
In addition to increasing the number of people officially classified as impoverished, revising the Census Bureau measure in the ways that the poverty experts suggested would mean that more elderly people and working families would be counted as poor.
Germany has been singled out as a target of anger among Greeks who see themselves as increasingly impoverished by the austerity measures imposed on them by the Union.
The university has responded to concerns about crime in the area, some of which is impoverished, with new safety measures like increasing the number of campus police cars, adding vans to a program that offers late-night rides and opening a campus police substation.
It is a measure of how impoverished America's contact with North Korea has become that one of the best-known conduits is Dennis Rodman, a.k.a. the Worm, the bad boy of the nineties-era Chicago Bulls.
It takes a fairly impoverished view of literature to measure it by the ethnicity of its characters or its author, as if we judged the Mona Lisa on the basis that it's Italian.
Here are a few realistic measures to support impoverished populations.
"Negotiations with your Editorship are, by open measure, inching, tedious, and impoverished as spit".
Yet, the current state of the literature on CPOE is particularly impoverished regarding implementation strategies and process measures.
It shouldn't be surprising that a state like California has imposed safety measures while Haiti, long an impoverished and disorganized country, has struggled.
