Sentence examples for in overwhelming poverty from inspiring English sources

During this era, France saw a tightening of social structures, with a lower class steeped in overwhelming poverty.

In Honduras, Kaine was surrounded by overwhelming poverty, which awakened him to the effects of concentrated power and wealth.

But I learned in Vista that you cannot really know what overwhelming poverty is like until you have lived with the people suffering it.

The Rev. Patricio Wade, 79, still working in Honduras, remembers Kaine as wide-eyed at his first brush with overwhelming poverty.

Delegates to this week's World Assembly on Aging are focusing, quite rightly, on the need to reduce the overwhelming poverty that is the main threat to older people in developing nations.

The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission cites this culture of impunity, weak institutions and overwhelming poverty as contributing factors to the increasing epidemic violence against women in Afghanistan.

Returning to Peru for college, he was deeply struck by the overwhelming poverty.

In Haiti, a country still reeling from January's devastating earthquake, the combination of a lack of infrastructure and overwhelming poverty have left the area ripe for disease.

I disbelieve also in richness, in poverty.

The overwhelming importance of race in defining poverty in Washington is also true of unemployment and crime.

"And giving it away to people who can use it well, especially in places where poverty is so overwhelming, where there's not much real infrastructure".