Sentence examples for poverty against from inspiring English sources

"That's why this country is fighting against poverty, against war".

There is a stereotyped image of the Andes showing poverty against a background of bleak, unproductive mountains, where millions insist, against all apparent logic, on living at 10,000 feet (3,000 metres) or more above sea level.

She said she had previously called on the US government to adopt federal minimum standards on the affordability for water and sanitation, and urged Washington to take action to help protect families living in poverty against disconnections.

She doesn't like being constantly reminded of her improbable rise from poverty against all the odds of French discrimination, and hates being called the Cinderella of the housing estates.

But, he said, "The war against terrorism cannot be won unless the war against poverty, against disease, against ignorance is won -- all those things that can make people desperate".

What is new is that Mr Darling has set out 40 indicators of poverty against which the government says it will measure its progress.The sheer number of indicators demonstrates the difficulty of answering an apparently simple question: how many Britons live in poverty?

King died fighting not just against poverty but against carpet-bombing in Vietnam; the war crimes under Nixon and Kissinger.

Gold prospectors fight against winter, writers against poverty, and dogs against hungry dogs.

"Poverty conspires against democracy," he said.

Grinding poverty set against a backdrop of soaring office towers.

They also raise poverty measured against a fixed, rather than relative, poverty line.