Sentences with phrase «into abject poverty»

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.

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.

instead of allowing children to be born into abject poverty and instead of allowing kids with down syndrome to be born into the homes of junkies and illiterates, we can abort the children OR every person who shows up at an anti abortion rally gets a free baby to take home and raise.

Not exact matches

A lot of that can be credited to director Francis Lawrence, who keeps the sometimes strange and gaudy visual aesthetics of the previous movie (Those costume, hair, and makeup designs alone easily slip into self - parody) and somehow makes them seem like a completely natural manifestation of runaway affluence, but cinematographer Jo Willems» murky lighting also helps tremendously, making the abject poverty of the districts and the turpitude of the Capitol all the more constricting.

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.

In her own words, it attempts to «suspend the passive aestheticism that turns abject poverty into an object of enjoyment».