Sentence examples for impoverished roots from inspiring English sources

In adulthood, he made much of his impoverished roots, but this was mostly embellishment: contrary to what he claimed, the family certainly had a bathroom.

— Jose E. Serrano (@RepJoseSerrano) 5 Mar 13 Mr. Serrano added in a statement that the Venezuelan leader "used his unique talents and gifts to try to lift up the people and the communities that reflected his impoverished roots," including his district in the Bronx, which had received discounted fuel oil from Venezuela.

He never forgot his impoverished roots--he lost his father when he was 14, and worked to support his family--and his personal and professional success never clouded his sense of who he was and where he came from.

At the end of the play, when Marlene returns to her impoverished provincial roots, the audience sees both the wasteland that she has left behind and the waste that she has helped to create.

Page's candid conversation with Mori serves as the narration for the film, which retraces the iconic model's often remarkable life from her impoverished Tennessee roots to her seven groundbreaking years as a wildly popular pin-up (she posed both bikinied and nude) and fetish model to her mysterious exit from her career in 1957.

Brown dragged himself up from impoverished dirt-farming roots, a childhood in his aunt's whorehouse and an early stint in prison to revolutionise music and change the world.

Bananas are the mainstay of the economy in the region around Davao City, an area that in the 1980s slipped into chaos as Marxist rebels of the New People's Army put down deep roots in impoverished villages and spread terror in the city with a campaign of assassinations.

His lone challenger is Mr Sabbahy, an avuncular and warm lifelong oppositionist with roots among the impoverished farmers of the Nile Delta who promises to fulfil the aspirations of the revolution that broke out three years ago: bread, freedom and social justice.

Many scholars say the ideology of Pakistan has never taken root among the impoverished masses of Pathans, Baluchis, Sindhis and Punjabis.

Our feel-good movie of the year is "Slumdog Millionaire," a Dickensian tale in which we root for an impoverished orphan from Mumbai's slums to hit the jackpot on the Indian edition of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire".

Mr. Assad's roots in an isolated, impoverished religious minority made him an unlikely candidate to become leader of Syria.