Sentences with phrase «from abject poverty»

Tragically, Monet's first wife Camille who bore him two sons died at the age of thirty - two in 1879 while the family suffered from abject poverty.

Get on Up (PG - 13 for sexuality, drug use, profanity and violence) Chad Boseman portrays James Brown in the biopic chronicling the Godfather of Soul's rise from abject poverty to the heights of superstardom.

George Canon, the Newcomb supervisor who rose from abject poverty to take a leading role in shaping policy in the Adirondack Park, was laid to rest on Saturday.

Speaking on the success recorded so far, President Buhari described the scheme as an helping hand initiative designed to liberate the nation from abject poverty and hunger.

George Canon, the Newcomb supervisor who rose from abject poverty to take a leading role in shaping policy in the Adirondack Park and was known as «Mr. Adirondack,» was laid to rest on Saturday.

China is either the greatest success story in lifting its population from abject poverty, or simply an authoritarian regime.

Football for most people was a temporary escape from abject poverty, filth and hoplessness.

This reassessment should pay respect to the empirical reality, that is, on the one hand, the unmitigated disaster of socialism everywhere» economically, politically, and in a monstrous aggregate of human suffering» and, on the other hand, the relative capacity of democratic capitalism to lift large masses of people from abject poverty to decent levels of material life and to provide political regimes that establish respect for elementary human rights.

Extreme wealth and fame exist just miles from abject poverty, despair, drugs and murder.

Not exact matches

But such folly is recorded in the OT Israelites whose greed drove them to give up their relatively egalitarian social system and to emulate the neighboring Amorites with their disparities from fabulous wealth to abject poverty.

These people have been living in abject poverty right under our nose — less than 700 miles from our shore.

The years - worth of free rice from USAID and the UN after the earthquake put an entire region of Haitian rice farmers out of work, driving their families into abject poverty, and now their children are vulnerable to child trafficking.

Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

It's an area overrun by poverty, yet despite the tragic circumstances there's a poetic beauty to Dayveon that prevents it from descending into abject misery, even when Day, despite the best efforts of his sister's boyfriend, Brain (Dontrell Bright), falls in with a local gang; drawn in by their sense of brotherhood and camaraderie.

Some come from lives of abject poverty; some have fled the maelstrom of Partition with only what they could carry; some witness the violent deaths of those they hold most dear.

The truth is that poverty in the world is in retreat, and abject poverty may not exist in another generation, aside from nations that sabotage themselves.

7 Billion, 9 Billion, or 14 Billion, All Place Great Strain on Planet's Resources From an ecological perspective I have grave doubts that the planet could support that many humans at anything other than the lowest levels of resource consumption — as in what would be considered today abject poverty.

Shuffling around «guilt payments» to the underdeveloped world at the same time blocking these nations from developing a reliable, low - cost energy infrastructure in order to pull themselves out of abject poverty is hypocritical nonsense.

Thus are we receiving supplies from one party and witnessing the most abject poverty in another but it is perfectly consistent with the nature of the country that it being not at all uncommon for one set of Indians to be absolutely starving while another party at the distance of 40 miles are living in the utmost profusion.