Sentence examples for spread poverty from inspiring English sources

"The only positive thing the government has done is spread poverty to all 48 provinces!" says one.

Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe left pensions, wages and investments worthless and spread poverty as everyday items became unaffordable.

Why is a puzzle: a farm depression has spread poverty, and families have fled, shrinking the Vorobyovo Secondary School by more than two-thirds in the last decade.

Garrincha lived in a period of great change for Brazil: the country tried to modernise but industrialisation proved a harsh reality and problems typical to any developing country quickly spread, poverty and criminality exploding in overcrowded cities.

In 1932 President Hoover raised the top rate to 63%, helping to trigger the Great Depression; FDR then multiplied the injustice (and spread poverty) by raising the rate to 94% (1944-45).

Although many have argued that poor people will be disproportionately affected by sea-level rise, he instead thinks that the costs of mitigating climate change will prolong and spread poverty.

Politicians cannot simply dismiss the evidence of spreading poverty, or treat it as some kind of macho proof of the success of their policies.

The Mugabe government is reaching end game, it is running out of options". Hyperinflation is spreading poverty, as even basic goods become unaffordable.

Another of Goldsmith's targets was big dams, which he saw as spreading poverty by flooding the lands of the poor for the benefit of wealthy industrialists and exporters.

Today the country struggles in the face of frequent droughts, insurgency and wide-spread poverty.

I spent the first 17 years of my life growing up under a dictatorship in Portugal -- it meant a lack of basic freedoms, no democracy and wide-spread poverty.