Sentence examples for impoverished over from inspiring English sources

Our public realm is being impoverished over and over again at the moment.

What had been Poland's nobility was impoverished over that 200-year period, but they kept their value system.

Black America today in mass is impoverished, over 10 million of the 40 million self identified African Americans live below the poverty line making less than $11,000 a year, and another large mass of African Americans are classified as "near poor" by new census calculations.

The lives that are most burdened and impoverished by over-frequent bearing and rearing of children are those of young women.

The majority of these people are deeply impoverished and over three-quarters are women and children.

The country has been impoverished by over a decade of dysfunction in state systems, political turbulence and interethnic tension, the wars of the Yugoslav succession, successive waves of refugees and internally displaced persons, as well as a stalled economy.

The Millennium Challenge Corporation, an American foreign aid agency created by Congress, promised this impoverished country $540 million over five years in September last year, in a good-government grant.

Still, the threat of disproportionate punishment — a summons, an arrest, police brutality, or death — hangs over impoverished, largely black and Hispanic communities throughout the city.

And in its 10th year, the event seemed mostly at ease with its spectacle of mass marketing — sponsors, billboards and giveaways — draped over impoverished players smoking cigarettes after every match.

Far from laying the basis for lasting growth in Venezuela, he is repeating many of the mistakes that have impoverished his country over the past 30 years: instead of trying to diversify away from oil, he is squandering much of the windfall income from high oil prices.

There are melancholy portraits of his old professors, prewar stars bypassed and impoverished when the Communists took over.