Sentence examples for shocking poverty from inspiring English sources

But the surge of immigration, both foreign and domestic, places great strain on city infrastructure, causing instability and plunging the most vulnerable citizens, mothers and their children, into shocking poverty.

Twenty-five yeago ago Ireland was mired in a deep peat bog of slow growth, high emigration and shocking poverty.

The adjustments he proposes would come much closer than we do now to measure the true, and shocking, poverty rate.

The experience can be an education: Rebecca Adlington was deeply moved by the shocking poverty she saw in India in 2010.

After all, it is as important to be aware of Mexico's growing middle class as it is the shocking poverty and lack of social mobility that still exist at the bottom end of the social scale.

But while the shocking poverty of these countries provides the fertile ground for the disease to spread, there are bigger issues at play that ought to cause us to think about the macroeconomic conditions that brought us to this point.

You can't expect every tourist to adapt to the grittiness of an American metropolis, but some of these commenters seem to think it's shocking that poverty exists in the shiny confines of movieland.

This sort of response would be comical, if it wasn't completely depressing.You can't expect every tourist to adapt to the grittiness of an American metropolis, but some of these commenters seem to think it's shocking that poverty exists in the shiny confines of movieland.

But a group of Canadian MPs and citizens who visited Indonesia and Thailand in September were so shocked at the poverty after the Asian financial meltdown that they called both for more emphasis on reducing poverty and for a steady rise in the aid budget, to bring it, over seven years, to 0.35% of GNP just half of Pearson's dream.

For households with the financial means to pay for care when hit by shocks, such contracts reduce vulnerability to financial shocks and poverty.

The poverty shocked him: many trailers in Rapid City had rotted-out floors.