Sentence examples for material poverty and from inspiring English sources

Material poverty and character both matter.

There are millions of Americans whose suffering, through material poverty and poor health, is as bad or worse than that of the people in Africa or in Asia.

The bishop of Durham, supported by Labour and the Liberal Democrats, led the effort to retain the targets, which measure material poverty, and were set to be scrapped under the welfare reform and work bill.

"You might say that he devoted his career," Brown writes, "to ensuring that no Swede would ever need to experience the American combination of material poverty and boundless optimism, and that he succeeded so completely that when he died he left a country where no one was poor and no one had room for optimism".

A number of Ionian thinkers arrived at Athens after Xerxes' invasion perhaps because 5th-century Ionia experienced relative material poverty and was thus no longer an agreeable place or perhaps because they had escaped from the Persian army, into which they had been conscripted.

Stories from these travelers typically focus on things like material poverty and a kind of totalitarian kitsch: the proliferation of statues and other symbols of a revered absolute leader, the spartan uniformity of dress, big state-owned stores bereft of goods to sell, broad avenues manned by traffic cops gifted in mechanized gyrations but missing that other basic ingredient of traffic, cars.

Cuba's economy today is a horrifying mixture of the worst of both worlds: the material poverty of socialism and the inequality of capitalism.

The study indicated that socio-economic factors mainly population pressure, expansion of agriculture, demand for fuel wood and construction material, poverty as well as policy and institutional changes were major driving forces in land use/cover dynamics behind.

But she quickly clarifies: she doesn't mean material poverty, lack of food and other basic needs, but poverty of information.

Naipaul was born in 1932, into a large extended family that mingled Hindu caste pride, small-time political power and material poverty.

"By understanding and promoting these emergent processes, humans have the opportunity to re-wild and re-green the Earth — even as developing countries achieve modern living standards, and material poverty ends," the manifesto argues.