Sentence examples for incredible poverty from inspiring English sources

Furthermore internally there was a model that was followed pretty closely by each of the countries: a very small Europeanised, often white elite that concentrated enormous wealth in the midst of incredible poverty.

The previous book in this series, The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow, is set in the elegant surroundings of a luxurious Edwardian department store - but for its sequel, I also wanted to show a very different side of 1900s London, a city of both incredible wealth and incredible poverty.

Matt Marshall, American Blues Scene: The Delta has always been known for three things: cotton, the blues and incredible poverty.

In many ways, where the richest country in the world is just across an almost swimmable amount of water, there is this incredible poverty.

During the '30s, our grandparents and great-grandparents suffered lost jobs, houses, farms, and incredible poverty without the benefit of credit cards, bailouts and stimulus, and they managed to live through a Great Depression with grit and resolve.

Occupation destroyed Afghan public services and created incredible poverty, a perfect void of power ready to be filled by the Taliban (encouraged by the U.S. to counter Soviet influence).

I decided to put Africa at the top of the agenda for Gleneagles, helped immeasurably by the incredible Make Poverty History campaign and particularly Bono and Bob Geldof, who assisted and prodded and kept everyone on their toes.

More than a century ago, Mark Twain called India "an incredible aggregate of poverty".

She interspersed her homilies with her own incredible story of poverty, rape, teenage pregnancy, huge success and wealth.

I was in the middle of a sophomore slump and I saw this incredible approach [to poverty] by Muhammad Yunus.

In the case of Haiti, it's a terrible, natural disaster, but it really highlighted an incredible, mind-boggling poverty that is so close to us.