Sentence examples for poverty himself from inspiring English sources

The empathy was rooted in what he had had to endure growing up in poverty himself, "in blisters and sunburn and windburn and humiliation".

Although London is often left speechless by the squalor he encounters at every turn, we must remember that he was no stranger to poverty himself, having worked in jute mills and been jailed for vagrancy whilst still in his teens.

He told about his father, who had made a large fortune and died in poverty He himself had made and lost a fortune.

Karlan, an economics professor at Yale who spent much of his time studying global poverty, was himself a liberal and disheartened by President Bush's re-election.

During his two decades of exile in Europe, he had lived in virtual poverty, supporting himself and his family, barely, by teaching private lessons in tennis, languages, and boxing.

And he who chooses poverty for himself and loves it possesses a great treasure and will hear the voice of his conscience address him every more clearly.

The author lives in as state of semi-poverty, supporting himself by teaching English and writing poetry.

Mr Meles lifted millions out of abject poverty and devoted himself to finding workable development policies.

Almost everybody below the Queen and above the poverty line considers himself or herself "middle class".

"For Jews, the scandal is poverty," says Attali, himself a Jew.

He was upper-class and he never forgot it, whereas Grant — or rather, Archie Leach — was born into poverty and willed himself into a debonair.