Sentence examples for sweeping poverty from inspiring English sources

Because of its sweeping poverty, population density, and poor sanitation, India has proved a particularly tough environment in which to wipe out the virus, with the country delivering an estimated 1 billon doses of polio vaccine each year.

Rarely do we face the fact that our country has been running a poverty draft, sweeping up the disenfranchised and disadvantaged, with an emphasis on the rural working class, and sending them halfway across the world into harm's way.

Her first initiative, Brasil Sem Miséria, unveiled in June, was a sweeping anti-poverty program.

To address this issue, Mayor de Blasio has set forth a sweeping anti-poverty agenda, which features an ambitious housing plan that aims to build and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next decade.

Sweeping dismissals of racism, sexism, heterosexism, poverty and injustice of all kinds are central planks in the Republican platform.

Pustay sat with President Johnson, reflecting on the private thoughts of the man who dominated public life with the historic passage of sweeping Great Society legislation aimed at eliminating poverty and racial injustice.

The initiative will be the bank's second sweeping commitment in two weeks to fighting poverty at the grass-roots level.

Inevitably, too, he set sweeping goals -- no child raised in poverty, affordable health care for everyone, a cleaner and safer planet -- without providing much of a road map toward realizing them.

The statement, calling for a new left, is sweeping in its concerns -- ending the Vietnam War, poverty, racial discrimination and the spread of atomic weapons.

He has plenty of disdain for Haiti, along with the usual robust American moralism: "The way Terry saw it, poverty was like a fast-running river sweeping every Haitian and his responsibilities downstream.

"The deadly combination of widespread poverty and malnutrition, especially among children, is sweeping the country.