Sentence examples for when poverty strikes from inspiring English sources
People need money when poverty strikes, not after the end of the income tax year.
But the political element became more pronounced when poverty struck Jamaicans giving way to the music genre known as Rock-steady and then Reggae.
"The report shows that when combined with HIV and AIDS, poverty strikes at the most vulnerable.
The Times's coverage of poverty strikes me as a paradox.
When asked to picture a poverty stricken child, you probably envision a small boy or girl blinking in the harsh sunlight of an unspecified rural setting, far away from the stability of city life.
It's that fantasy we have of ourselves when we watch a tragedy or poverty stricken country on a television set.
That doesn't necessarily mean they live in poverty, but they are more likely to sink into poverty when adversity strikes.
It wasn't miserable and it wasn't poverty stricken.
Neglected tropical diseases are major causes of fatality in poverty stricken regions across Africa, Asia and some part of America.
No one had very much then and we weren't poverty stricken.
"It is utterly devoid of idealism and almost poverty stricken as to any real ideas".
