Sentence examples for rapid impoverishment from inspiring English sources

By focusing on the human costs, short- and long-term, of corporate globalization and on the rapid impoverishment of ecological and social systems, journalists committed to good globalization can get their words in before bad globalists rewrite the rules for free speech.

When the Turks captured Thessaloníki (Salonika) in 1430, the monks submitted to Turkish rule, a relation that led to the rapid decline and impoverishment of the monasteries and increased adoption of the more liberal system of governance.

The end of state subsidies, rapid inflation, higher taxes, widespread impoverishment and the decline of the middle class were especially evident in Antananarivo, as was the growing wealth of a tiny political and economic elite in the city.

The concept was introduced, in fact, by Henry VII, as something that England should encourage other countries to do while it maintained protectionism; a process known as the 1485 Tudor Plan that led to the rapid industrialization of England and the deeper impoverishment of its trading "partners".

Postextinction diversifications, however, lag far behind the initial taxonomic impoverishment and are strongly unpredictable – particularly those following 'pulse extinctions' (rapid, catastrophic events that do not allow adaptive change during the extinction episode; Erwin 1998).

Impoverishment and famine followed.

New poverty builds upon old impoverishment.

Where some see enrichment, others see impoverishment.

"That can be a real impoverishment.

They must choose between work or impoverishment.

All this represents a huge impoverishment.