Sentence examples for overwhelming poverty from inspiring English sources

Returning to Peru for college, he was deeply struck by the overwhelming poverty.

Like Afghanistan, Somalia is Muslim; each country drove a superpower off its soil, and each faces overwhelming poverty and despair.

In Honduras, Kaine was surrounded by overwhelming poverty, which awakened him to the effects of concentrated power and wealth.

But so far, civilian rule has not changed the government's habitual use of harsh repression nor dented the delta's overwhelming poverty.

But I learned in Vista that you cannot really know what overwhelming poverty is like until you have lived with the people suffering it.

I saw none of the overwhelming poverty and crowding which make a degree of shock a virtual condition of Indian travel, and my interaction with people was easy and equal.

Among them are an overwhelming, debilitating poverty that has outlasted a near decade of prosperity, and Mr. Giuliani's extraordinarily successful campaign to cut welfare rolls, which have fallen by more than 50percentt from their 1977 totals of close to a million.

Then there is the overwhelming problem of poverty.

You have an overwhelming amount of poverty that tilts the dynamics, the behavior and the perception of the city.

Mr. Jha and Mr. Mishra say that in the vastness of India, where their middle-class lives have been the exception rather than the rule, they feel that they are in some ways separate from the real country and its overwhelming issues of poverty and class.

And let's not forget that Social Security is the overwhelming reason the poverty rate for older adults is lower than that of children.