Sentence examples for staggering poverty from inspiring English sources
In recent years at least 25 million people have moved up two or more steps from staggering poverty to the aspiring working class.
And despite what public perception may exist about this group, I witnessed genuinely concerned people with tears in their eyes after learning of staggering poverty statistics & viewing the trailer for the Sundance award-winning film Blood Brother.
Despite Büchi's heavy criticism of the Allende populist model, rife with price controls, deficits, triple-digit inflation and staggering poverty rates, the author neglects to condemn the harmful 21st-century socialism of Venezuela's firebrand undemocratic leader Hugo Chavez, a revolution emulated by fellow leftist populists in Ecuador and Bolivia.
Progress being made The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is home to both tremendous wealth and staggering poverty.
It reveals a staggering poverty of respect.
It provides a detailed account of the staggering poverty many of our grandparents or great grandparents endured.
Food stamps are part of the social safety net, but they work more as the ultimate ground-level crutch for Americans staggering against poverty.
But all important development indicators are far from impressive: Staggering rates of underemployment, poverty, and inequality haven't changed at all, if not deteriorated in recent years, while the Philippine political system is still dominated by a dynastic-celebrity-media complex.
Even all of these years later, I am given pause as I read about staggering inflation, crippling unemployment, extreme poverty and a seemingly never ending brain drain from Zimbabwe.
India's challenges — how to keep the economic engine moving while making government more effective and efficient; how to raise hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while protecting the environment — are staggering.
The number of suicides throughout is staggering, whether caused by Nazi persecution or by poverty and depression, or simply inexplicable, as that of Klaus, Thomas's estimable writer son.
