Sentences with phrase «crushing poverty»

Here you will find art and music dancing alongside crushing poverty and mind - blowing crime.

When we compare ourselves and our current situation to the soul - crushing poverty of the first - century church, perhaps our question should not be «Do I have to give?»

of housing court in New York City, and feeling unequipped to deal with clients» everyday problems like crushing poverty, mental illness, domestic violence, and every kind of discrimination you can imagine.

Perhaps few people would begrudge the glittering river views of the new Whitney building for the AIDS - related anxiety and crushing poverty experienced by New York's LGBTQI community between the late 1970s and the mid-1990s.

Large numbers of new vocations for women today come from Africa, where young women choose becoming a nun as a way to escape crushing poverty and to get an education.

Blind folk fighting a brave battle, sick folk nourishing a forlorn yet patient hope, poor folk sustaining crushing poverty, bereaved folk covering broken hearts with the beautiful hypocrisy of smiling faces — who says that the spirit of combative courage is not needed?

I know theoretically that crushing poverty exists, but it is another thing to put a face to it - to hold the babies who have no families, to look Marta in the eye and kiss her cheek.

Today in the Arab world, the unemployed, many living in crushing poverty, riot while their billionaire rulers struggle to keep the lid on corruption produced disparity.

With two billion of the world's population living on less than $ 2 a day, alleviating crushing poverty and the health, social and environmental ills that accompany it, is everyone's moral responsibility.

Online denizens tend to adopt an extremely romanticized view of the era, extolling the dapper lords and fetching ladies, and celebrating the advances in technology while neglecting to explore the vile racism, shameful abuse of human rights and crushing poverty endemic to the time.

Although the work is more fulfilling, the job comes with its own stresses — being entirely responsible for preventing a family's eviction, navigating the hot mess of housing court in New York City, and feeling unequipped to deal with clients» everyday problems like crushing poverty, mental illness, domestic violence, and every kind of discrimination you can imagine.

They insisted that the starting point for reading and interpreting the Bible be the experience of the crushing poverty and oppression of the lowest social classes.

That's because the latest Department of Education study isn't being released in a vacuum; it caps off an overwhelming wave of evidence showing that our education crisis has far less to do with public schools or bad teachers than it does with the taboo subject of crushing poverty.

Today the 1920s are often referred to as Hawai'i's «glamour days,» though they were considerably less glamorous for those who struggled under the crushing poverty of Kauluwela, Green Block, or Hell's Half Acre.

No tourists, no Western shops or restaurants, just millions of bicycles, dusty roads, old temples, handpainted signs, street markets, pointy hats and crushing poverty.

While their siblings happily skip through every charmed childhood Christmas memory, my littles are remembering lost birth parents, crushing poverty, and Christmases in orphanages.