Sentence examples for widespread desperate from inspiring English sources

The question from development economists, looking at the work of the Grameen Bank or at the opportunities about which Kristof and WuDunn write, and assessing their effectiveness, is typically one of scale: Where does the economic (and emotional) turn-around of a young woman like Rath, the beneficiary of a small infusion of cash, fit in the big picture of chronic, widespread, desperate poverty?

In Asia in early 2008 a spike in the price of rice led to widespread unrest and desperate attempts by governments to secure more supplies.

His assessment included accounts of widespread migration as desperate families abandon their homes and food gardens, travelling long distances to stay with extended family.

"Many of them saw that their government was doing nothing, that the international community was stymied, and so they went around and collected donations, and bought rice and dried fish and other supplies in the market and headed into the delta as best they could". The aid that has gotten through is "a drop in the bucket" compared with the desperate, widespread need for food and housing, he adds.

North Korea has almost no real economy, widespread hunger, an increasingly desperate, alienated population, and tense relations with South Korea and America.

In the few developing locales where such infrastructure might exist and indeed, even in the richest nations on the planet this resource can be ruined suddenly by a natural disaster like a hurricane, earthquake, or tsunami, creating an immediate, desperate, and widespread need for safe drinking water.

A prime minister using such irresponsible and odious language about desperate people deserves widespread criticism.

But doctors and psychiatrists say use of the drug is also becoming widespread among Syria's increasingly desperate civilian population.

The Nauru detention centre is currently experiencing one of its most desperate periods, with widespread acts of self-harm and suicide attempts.

Adam Green told me that the Grazr team expects that in around 2008, RSS will be so widespread that businesses will be desperate to find a way to make their feeds usable.

There are pockets of desperate need but no widespread suffering.