Sentence examples for poverty spread from inspiring English sources

The currency has fallen further, the economy shrunk faster, and poverty spread wider than anywhere else in the region.

Her response on a Seattle cable channel to Barack Obama's state of the nation address in January, in which she accused the president of betraying Americans mired in poverty, spread via the internet and reinforced her growing reputation among activists outside Seattle.

Last year, as poverty spread through much of Russia, those two Mediterranean resort cities were host to 100,000 Russian tourists, three times as many as in 1994.

As poverty spread, it brought with it urban blight and decay to communities, along with drugs, gangs, violence, unemployment and countless lost opportunities for generations of young people.

Many savored the humiliation of the man who ruled with unquestionable power for 29 years, during which opponents were tortured, corruption was rife, poverty spread and political life was stifled.

Poverty spreads, he said, because of the system of property, which gives some unfair power over others.

Like a monstrous octopus, poverty spreads its nagging, prehensile tentacles into hamlets and villages all over our world.

Russian policy makers, the report said, would increasingly find themselves performing a "balancing act" of maintaining macro-economic stability while meeting growing demands for social spending as poverty spreads.

But many questionable choices are councils' own, from Hackney's decision to cosy up to the international digital elites while poverty spreads on its own doorstep to the effective displacement of social tenants in the regeneration of Southwark's Elephant and Castle area.

It was painfully obvious how easily this disease of poverty spreads in close quarters.

The conservative era that began with Reagan has resulted in unprecedented inequality, a declining middle class, a weakened labor movement, good jobs shipped abroad, and poverty spreading.