Sentence examples for own poverty from inspiring English sources

But they resent the ethnic-Burman majority, blaming them for their own poverty.

"Mexico is totally dependent on the United States as a release valve for its own poverty".

Faced with the richness of my friends' histories, I was stung by my own poverty.

Likewise, why not blame poor people for their own poverty and the unemployed for their own joblessness?

He was moved, he says, by the way that Makhmalbaf's films captured his own poverty and suffering.

They were in the fragile old black Chevrolet; his father, mocking his own poverty, called it "the flivver".

Machen is equally good at evoking a labyrinthine London based on his own poverty-stricken years spent in poky garrets.

Such help coincides with debt relief and countries' own poverty-reduction programmes that are financed (and, in fact, mostly written) by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

Spurred on by Stamp Out Poverty, the council, local businesses, charities and faith groups set up their own poverty-free campaign a year ago this week.

Without the foil, we would have to face our own poverties, our own barbarism, our own shelteredness, our own actual lack of sophistication.

The announcement comes as Mr Duncan Smith prepares to make £12bn welfare cuts that the Government's own child poverty advisors have said are highly likely to raise child poverty.