Sentences with phrase «in desperate poverty»

To argue otherwise requires assuming that today's developing countries will remain in desperate poverty, and / or will adopt technologies that the developed countries themselves have yet to adopt.

Carla, as an adolescent, lives in desperate poverty with her younger brother and grandmother in Guatemala after her mother illegally immigrates to the U.S. in order to provide for her family.

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But many desperate people also buy lottery tickets as a matter of hope, in a desperate attempt to get themselves out of poverty.

Smartphones allow farmers and textile workers in the developing world to start small businesses and move out of desperate poverty.

Whether it's teenagers living in material or spiritual poverty desperate to hear about hope in an uncertain world, or hardened gang members hungry for forgiveness and a new start, we have good news to bring.

As we live in a world desperate for a glimpse of God, desperate for a rescue, crushed by evil and poverty and war and the grind of lonely existence in quiet desperation, we, the Church are part of God's plan to push back that darkness and make space for his Kingdom.

The children of Guatemala are living in desperate despair and a nightmare of devastating poverty.

It was this human capital that took a desperate refugee population in Hong Kong and turned it into a world - class financial center; this human capital that saw Japan and South Korea arise from the ashes of war; this human capital whose success in turning around centuries of poverty has led to what the World Bank calls «The East Asian Miracle.»

Can you imagine living in such desperate, desolate poverty that you can't afford to mix the formula full - strength, so you do the best you can to stretch the can, diluting and diluting until what your baby is fed is only a fraction of what she needs to grow and thrive?

The prime minister used his opening speech to an international conference on Somalia taking place in London to warn that, despite political advances in Somalia like a new president, government and parliament elected by representatives of all clans, the country «still faces desperate poverty».

The stories of Father Carlos and Dr. N'goy, the District Medical Officer who had first identified the epidemic, the reports at the Bumba hospital, the evident fear of the pilots and the townspeople of Bumba and their desperate attempts to flee the town... the apparent virulence of this disease, the high mortality — put together with the poverty and poor organization that characterized Zaire and the potential for contagion in Kinshasa — added up to a picture that Joel Breman, a CDC senior epidemiologist, summarized as «potentially the most deadly epidemic of the century.»

The vast majority of Russian ladies do not live in poverty and are not desperate to leave their country, despite what you so often hear in the media.

was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.

Traveling to Japan in search of their mentor (Liam Neeson), who is rumored to have disavowed Christianity and taken a Japanese wife, Rodrigues and his fellow Jesuit Father Garrpe (Adam Driver) are confronted with abject poverty and an oppressive government that condemns Christians to live in fear — desperate circumstances the fathers believe can be improved only by faith in God.

In fact, the battle rages in some of the poorest places on the planet, where the truly impoverished are way more desperate than those living below the poverty line in the U.SIn fact, the battle rages in some of the poorest places on the planet, where the truly impoverished are way more desperate than those living below the poverty line in the U.Sin some of the poorest places on the planet, where the truly impoverished are way more desperate than those living below the poverty line in the U.Sin the U.S..

The EC proposal is especially inadequate in a world where the majority of the population still lives in poverty, and for whom the expansion of energy services is a desperate priority.

As Nobel laureate Mohammed Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank for micro-credit in Bangladesh, has pointed out, «Poverty leads to hopelessness, which provokes people to desperate acts.»

The majority of the world's people live at what would be considered desperate poverty levels in developed countries, the average per capita material and energy use in developed countries is higher than in developing countries by a factor of 5 to 10 [25], and the developed countries are responsible for over three quarters of cumulative greenhouse gas emissions from 1850 to 2000 [85].

What is clear is that desperate poverty still exists in Scotland today, which requires a response alongside that of the vital care that is needed for those suffering in so many other parts of the world.

Millions of American children are living in poverty and are in desperate need of the opportunity for success that Head Start and Early Head Start offer.