Sentence examples for may have impoverished from inspiring English sources

Bibi's reforms may have impoverished pensioners living on fixed incomes, but his modified Wisconsin plan succeeded in putting to work both Arab and Jewish women from conservative religious backgrounds, and ultra-Orthodox married men who had engaged in full-time religious study while living off a state stipend.

Housing may no longer be in free fall, but plummeting values and rising defaults have impoverished many homeowners and burdened states with widening budget deficits.

And they have impoverished the state's representative government.

The south has impoverished pockets, like north-east Kent.

This country had impoverished itself by subsidising sunset industries.

Sure, the borough has impoverished neighborhoods and illegally converted apartments.

Although Winston had paid off the fine by 1651, it had impoverished him.

Humanitarian principles may be noble, but good intentions are not enough to compensate those whose lives may have been made more impoverished and more vulnerable to disease or economic hardship.

Two circumstances may have played a part: an impoverished upbringing, the result of a Yale-educated but feckless and itinerant father; and the loss of a leg when, at 9, Capp was run over by a trolley in New Haven.

But from his writing, Mr. Styron said, Mr. Canby shared his civilized voice and "resolute high standards that he brought to all his work, which may have been nurtured in that impoverished Southern boarding school".

The hygiene hypothesis proposes, for example, that children residing in impoverished circumstances may have earlier exposure to pathogens that promote immunological maturation, resulting in protection against type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases (13).