Sentences with phrase «of abject poverty»

Having seen a little of the abject poverty of some people in India, on my return I quickly became involved in the work of Christian Aid and the beginnings of the World Development Movement, which campaigned on political matters relating to aid and trade.

But the kind of abject poverty that over one billion people endure — those living on $ 1 per day — wouldn't be tolerated by Jesus and should not exist today.

There is the world of abject poverty, where dirty water leads to gastrointestinal infections and poverty leads to dilution, causing malnutrition.

Slumdog Millionaire is an utterly magical film, transporting the audience to a place of abject poverty and human degradation, and yet somehow becoming a life - affirming and profoundly moving love story.

I could retell endless stories of abject poverty and hardships under Ceaușescu.

In capturing daily city life, some photographers produced abstract and dislocating views of vast urban architecture, while others depicted much more intimate, narrative scenes of abject poverty.

Developing nations, by contrast, have spent far less and are still busy bringing millions of people out of abject poverty.

Nevertheless, diesel cooking remains significantly more lucrative than subsistence farming and fishing, and most assume these risks to lift their families out of abject poverty.

One day, they (or some other as yet unimaginable energy source) may replace the fossil fuels that still account for 81 % of the energy that makes U.S. livelihoods, living standards, and life spans possible — and is lifting billions out of abject poverty, malnutrition, and disease.

We believe abundant, affordable energy is indispensable to human flourishing, particularly to societies which are rising out of abject poverty and the high rates of disease and premature death that accompany it.

STORED solar energy that will continue to improve the lives of anyone exposed to it and lift millions more out of abject poverty, including the 1.3 Billion who still have no electricity, at all.

MEMO to the UN — If you want to reduce the world's population, provide the third - world with cheap, reliable fossil - fuelled or nuclear power generation to lift them out of abject poverty.