Sentence examples for long impoverished from inspiring English sources

The Icelandic people, so long impoverished by their reliance on burning peat and imported coal from Europe to survive, have harnessed this heat to enable an almost total transition from the fossil-powered past.

His prominence helped boost the confidence of his community, which makes up roughly half of Israel's population but was long impoverished and faced discrimination by Ashkenazi — or European — Jews who traditionally dominated Israel's government and religious institution.

Only about 30,000 of the 118 million individual returns filed wind up in tax court, and few of the taxpayers who fight that long are impoverished widows.

The donation will transform a long-impoverished magazine into a powerful foundation devoted to promoting poets and poetry.

Newark's long-impoverished, overwhelmingly black South Ward is still recovering in some ways from the exodus of residents and commerce after the 1967 riots.

Too Big a Loan Newark's long-impoverished, overwhelmingly black South Ward is still recovering in some ways from the exodus of residents and commerce after the 1967 riots.

The politicians argue that the long-impoverished south has never gotten its fair share of the country's oil money, even though the bulk of Iraqi oil reserves lie near Basra, at the head of the Persian Gulf.

Brock found the inspiration for a volunteer medical relief corps dedicated to bringing free care to the isolated and impoverished long before his "Wild Kingdom" days, during a 15-year sojourn in the savannahs and rain forests of South America, running a huge cattle ranch in the former British colony of British Guiana.

It shouldn't be surprising that a state like California has imposed safety measures while Haiti, long an impoverished and disorganized country, has struggled.

WEEK IN REVIEW, PAGE 9 Op-Ed NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF For all the American and international efforts to fight global poverty, one thing is clear: They won't get far as long as impoverished women in developing countries continue giving birth to more children than they can feed.

Long the impoverished Cinderella of the biological research kingdom, plant science has just had a visit from the fairy godmother.