Sentence examples for suffered poverty from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, officials in Mr. Tsvangirai's party, many of whom suffered poverty while fighting to remake Zimbabwe, began enjoying the trappings of power.

Under Mobutu's reign, per capita income collapsed by 2.2% each year; ordinary Congolese suffered poverty worse than that which they had known under Belgian colonial rule.

More importantly, 88.3% of farmers said coffee farming was their main source of income and 82.5% (113 participants) said their family had suffered poverty as a result of fluctuating coffee prices in the past.

He thought of writing a Christmas story full of cheer and goodwill for people who, like he, had suffered poverty and had known what it was like to live in fear.

He recognized that farmworkers, primarily workers of color, were forced to live in poverty working in torpid fields while many women of color who were domestic workers suffered poverty in homes of the elderly and disabled they cared for.

"You will suffer poverty," she told him.

Shunted off to a school in a converted army barracks, he suffers poverty and bullying.

It could keep an option on nuclear weapons, but suffer poverty; or it can rejoin the global economy and still have the prospect of the peaceful nuclear programme it says it has wanted all along.

Only some 13% of pensioners now suffer poverty incomes, declares a new Joseph Rowntree Foundation landmark report, We can solve poverty in the UK, down from 40% a generation ago, protected by the steady real increase in the state pension.

These women, who already suffer poverty rates of pay, are now having to contend with the poor working conditions and complete lack of job security that self-employment brings.

The worker finds work a torment, suffers poverty, overwork and lack of fulfillment and freedom.