Synonyms
Examples for "poverty"
Examples for "poverty"
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Kosovo's appalling environmental problems are part of a deeper problem: chronic poverty.
2
Food poverty is a huge problem in Ireland and throughout the EU.
3
The company said it wanted to tackle period poverty in New Zealand.
4
We want greater recognition of the depth of the food poverty problem.
5
They talk a good game about prosperity, but deliver crime and poverty.
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His happiness was evidently incomplete in the privation of a similar pair.
2
One great privation in this winter travelling is the want of water.
3
It was meant to be boom-time after decades of war and privation.
4
Another is reared in poverty and has to toil and suffer privation.
5
Nor had the privation of the long journey dimmed in my mind.
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It puts every ordinary working family at risk of falling into destitution.
2
This was done in but few instances, the general destitution forbidding it.
3
There are millions of people living in destitution crying out for help.
4
The cause of the destitution of the proletariat are then set forth.
5
Yet it was still in a pitiable state of weakness and destitution.
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And that was the truth; for their comfort had changed into penury.
2
They lived in penury for three years before returning to San Diego.
3
I left the millions of Italy, and I find spoliation and penury.
4
He was reduced many times to the very last extreme of penury.
5
His penury coincided with the peak of his power, influence, and celebrity.
6
To have brought penury to his lady-love struck him to the heart.
7
What would have satisfied the ancient would seem to us like penury.
8
Never was penury of knowledge and vulgarity of sentiment so happily disguised.
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Never were penury of knowledge and vulgarity of sentiment so happily disguised.
10
Our Universities are impoverished of learning, by the penury of their provisions.
11
A few years of an old man's life hi penury and obscurity.
12
The rest of his life was a blur of penury and dissolution.
13
And that rivalry drove all other merchant houses in Altaruk into penury.
14
All need relief from the penury that fuels domestic violence and sometimes prostitution.
15
The years of his youth are lost; his father has died in penury.
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That means not forcing employees to choose between penury and working while coughing.
