Sentence examples for like a poverty from inspiring English sources

To be sure, Las Vegas today looks no more like a poverty zone than it does a religious camp.

But shorn of detail, it looks like a poverty compendium: the bread and dripping, the drunken husband, the wife in a crocheted cap wringing her careworn hands.

The beauty of Fundación Paraguaya's concept, christened Ikatú ("Yes we can" in Guaraní), is that although it starts out like a poverty measurement program, it turns into a much more important poverty reduction program.

The UK often pays double what it needs to for infrastructure, behaving like a poverty-stricken consumer who must buy their furniture on hire purchase, he says.

The concert's hosts called for actions like sending a poverty-related tweet to the presidential candidates.

An animation film commissioned by a fan club in Gujarat shows Mr Modi as a Superman-like figure throwing darts at a "poverty board" and swooping in to catch terrorists.

A lot of people you meet who play in bands and didn't get signed when they were teenagers have stories of poverty and struggle, but it's often bullshit because it's like a chosen poverty.

The Heritage Foundation sometimes offers a narrow definition of the "unsustainable welfare state," based on means-tested programs – benefits directed to those with income below a poverty threshold, like Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, food stamps and Medicaid.

Yeah, yeah, I know -- it's not like Bristol is a poverty-stricken single mother pulling herself and her crack baby up by her bootstraps to cure cancer, but so what?

This doesn't sound like an anti-poverty program; it sounds like condescension.  .

According to Robinson, in the realm of international relations, no real progress can be made to address a problem like poverty without a critical feminist ethics of care.