Sentence examples for wretched poverty from inspiring English sources

He ended his life in wretched poverty.

Wretched poverty, crime and bad governance bedevil South Africa.

Fox said that 40 million Mexicans live in the most wretched poverty.

Tye evokes the wretched poverty and second-class-citizen status endured even by the stars of the Negro leagues.

Despite their wretched poverty, they save, collectively, 22.7% of income and four-fifths of that is held in dollars.They also invest abroad.

Those who survived were drawn often forcibly, always uncomprehendingly into wretched poverty on the margins of life in the developing colonies.

The stories were wretched; the poverty, rock-bottom.

Famines, wars, epidemics and a wretched postcolonial poverty drove them through the ports by the millions.

Yet as Curtis Wilkie, a retired journalist who teaches here, readily acknowledged, the woods only 10 miles away are "full of unreconstructed rednecks," and 25 miles to the west lies the largely black Mississippi Delta, an area of wretched, unrelenting poverty.

Some women and men, particularly young men, are exploited for sex, forced into it by their poverty, wretched circumstances and manipulation by powerful abusers.

The area does include several pockets of wretched Native American poverty, but in most areas the poor are as white as a prairie snowstorm.Second, most people do not think of themselves as poor.