Sentence examples for impoverished societies from inspiring English sources

That year, Myanmar's military junta, whose nearly five decades of authoritarian rule transformed a lush, resource-rich state into one of the most closed-off and impoverished societies on Earth, made an abrupt about-face and announced that it would begin a transition to "civilian democracy".

While it is crucial that Americans stay engaged with providing foreign aid for children in impoverished societies, the tremendous amount of criticism risks demoralizing current and future donors.

Jaffe and Rosen disagree and argue that poverty alone does not often force children into prostitution, as it does not exist in a large scale in several impoverished societies.

The story of modern slavery is intricate and covert; it is woven into consumer and supply chains, the structure of impoverished societies, the daily lives of millions of vulnerable, unknowing, innocent people.

The results obtained in the MSF Niger programs in 2006 and 2007 challenge us to find ways of ensuring that children in impoverished societies have access to food of high nutritional value in sufficient amounts for them to grow and develop normally.

We are an impoverished society.

North Korea's totalitarian regime and impoverished society buck these trends.

The increasingly impoverished society in which we live only makes the future bleaker for elders as precious resources are dissipated.

"A Private View" is a fierce domestic farce about a bourgeois couple who have thrived in an impoverished society.

In this well-narrated work, Vargas Llosa considered how the forces of rationality and irrationality function in an impoverished society.

Nic Maclellan has written at length of the damage the detention centre's arrival wreaked on an already impoverished society.