Sentence examples for personal poverty from inspiring English sources

The experience of personal poverty often leaves Labour politicians with a focus on winning power, so that they can help the communities they left behind.

After decades of evading an endless string of opponents — from personal poverty to the United States government — Venezuela's democratically elected strongman finally succumbed to the one enemy he couldn't defeat.

Carmelite, one of the four great mendicant orders (those orders whose corporate as well as personal poverty made it necessary for them to beg for alms) of the Roman Catholic Church, dating to the Middle Ages.

Three parties gradually appeared: the Zealots, who insisted on a literal observance of the primitive rule of poverty affecting communal as well as personal poverty; the Laxists, who favoured many mitigations; and the Moderates, or the Community, who wanted a legal structure that would permit some form of communal possessions.

For many of our members, their year of service is the first time they experience personal poverty.

With the loss of nuns, Catholic hospitals have also lost the steady navigation they brought, borne of a lifetime commitment to personal poverty and selfless service to those in need.

Livingstone grew up in a distinctively Scottish family environment of personal piety, poverty, hard work, zeal for education, and a sense of mission.

After September 11th, Sageman traced the paths of a hundred and seventy-two alienated young Muslims who joined the jihad, and found that the common ground lay not in personal pathology, poverty, or religious belief but in social bonds.

Entry was often linked with personal or familial poverty, and in most cases this poverty manifested as hunger.

This was a man who conducted a decidedly personal war on poverty.

The government has put great emphasis on the role of personal factors in poverty.