Sentence examples for marked by poverty from inspiring English sources

Her childhood was marked by poverty.

Life was marked by poverty and repressive structures.

Mathers had a turbulent childhood, marked by poverty and allegations of abuse.

By the late sixties, the city was marked by poverty, a persistent lack of opportunity, and violent crime.

33 A Harlem Block Transformed A few years ago, 129th Street was marked by poverty, welfare, unemployment and drugs.

Picasso's early days in Paris, then the art capital of Europe, were marked by poverty and desperation.

This other Kenya is marked by grinding poverty and a lack of opportunity.

Zafar has been deeply marked by the poverty of his origins and by the difficulty of his leap away from them.

In the interview, he described a childhood marked by grinding poverty and the early death of his father, a groundskeeper for rich families.

His rule has been marked by rising poverty, corruption and a slow erosion of the meaning of such concepts as democracy and a free market economy.

By staying very close to the religious actors, their discourse, perceptions, and means of persuasion, Rougier helps us to understand how radical religious allegiances overcome traditional nationalist sentiment and how jihadist networks grab hold in communities marked by unemployment, poverty, and despair.