Sentence examples for utter poverty from inspiring English sources

There's about a million people living in utter poverty.

Few think it will work.One enduring reason for instability is Chechnya's utter poverty.

From my experience, I know that people living in utter poverty on the margins of the society, those most vulnerable to HIV, are not just statistics.

Joellen Stone, a client of the department trained to help others with mental illness, told the panel that the people she counsels are living in "utter poverty — in apartments with bed bugs and rats and drug dealers in the hall".

In other words, as people move out of utter poverty into the middle class lifestyle or something better, their resource demands for energy, for all kinds of materials, goes up.

Most of the huge industrialists who have succeeded in their business have gone through plenty of failure, rough patches, despair and sometimes, even utter poverty and they never gave up.

In 1973 Mr. McNamara dedicated himself to the reduction of what he called "absolute poverty — utter degradation" in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Although I think it was just my age got me this award and others deserved it much more for all the work they have done and deprivation they have experienced, living in camps through winter months, coping with 24 hour a day exposure to weather, misjudgements, publicity, opposition, abuse, police brutality, poverty, utter lack of privacy and personal space.

Allied bombing of the Japanese-occupied island during the second world war had reduced it to a blank slate for all manner of economic, social and urban planning, and it remained shabby for years: "Utter filth and poverty," reported the travel magazine Asia Scene in 1960.

Think about it: Did you hear the word "poverty" uttered by anyone else? ( "The ragged edges of the middle class" isn't the same thing, nor is "America's working families". Sorry).

Weeks from his fortieth birthday, Pierre — a classic starving artist who lives riotously among bourgeois friends — thinks he has inherited a fortune but then, when his friends go out of town, finds that he has been disinherited and rapidly declines from genteel poverty to utter penury and homelessness.