Sentences with phrase «of desperate poverty»

The idea that unabated, incremental growth is the formula to eradicate poverty will leave us all ultimately poorer and make the pockets of desperate poverty more entrenched.

Greenies like to talk about «renewables» providing a resilient society, but the amount of energy needed to lift the developing countries out of desperate poverty will not be provided by expensive and dilute power from wind turbines, solar panels, or chicken manure.

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

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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.

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 rebellion against hunger, poverty, and disease is a revolutionary ferment around the world, the desperate discontent of the disinherited awakening to new hopes and new national awareness.

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.»

Some, mostly from abroad, have desperate poverty of everything but their God given talent and are easy prey for the sharks who attach themselves to top sportspeople.

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 past five years of austerity have led to desperate poverty,» he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire.

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.»

Yes, Russia's females, whose profiles you see on legitimate web pages, are not desperate «to get out of poverty».

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.

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The dominant model of development has entirely failed to lift large sections of humanity out of unacceptable levels of poverty, misery and desperate want.

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.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.

With tar sands project, Canada looks like a scientifically illiterate high poverty desperate country trying to go after the dirtiest forms of energy when it does not have to.

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.»

Theirs is a desperate struggle to stay alive — not lift themselves out of poverty — but to stay alive.

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.