Sentence examples for its impoverishment from inspiring English sources

But its impoverishment and improvised, beautifying ingenuity have more to do with class than race.

Despite its impoverishment and heavy dependence on Chinese aid and support, North Korea seems to regularly defy every Chinese diplomatic initiative, from Beijing's work to keep the Korean Peninsula nuclear-free to its efforts to prevent a violent confrontation.

At least two of those interviewed in China hewed to the official propaganda line that North Korea was a victim of die-hard enemies, its impoverishment a Western plot, its survival threatened by the United States, South Korea and Japan.

John Harris (Austerity and then chicanery: how the Tories target cash-strapped councils, 23 September) correctly identifies the lack of media interest in, and reporting of, local government as a key factor in its impoverishment.

The study did not explore how households which made catastrophic health payments coped with the situation and its impoverishment effects, if any.

Rome was left to its factional strife and its economic impoverishment.

We should be concerned about these figures – they tell us of a picture of neglect – by government with its active impoverishment of poorer parts of our society and with its complacent neglect of public health nutrition.

This group has proven its ability to maintain Iran's economic isolation and force its comparative impoverishment.

Despite its history of impoverishment, it conceives itself as an important regional player.

In an open letter to Tom Clausen, the bank's president, he told him to "stop financing the destruction of the tropical world, the devastation of its remaining forests, the extermination of its wildlife, and the impoverishment and starvation of its human inhabitants".

With its growing relative impoverishment and faced with the prospect of "losing" the presidency until at least 2015 if Jonathan wins the 2011 election, northern political elites now may well give serious consideration to the candidacy of Muhammadu Buhari, the former military ruler known for his austere lifestyle and intolerance for corruption.