Sentences with phrase «of the abject poverty of»

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.

The above quotes clearly indicate that globalization is yet another manifestation of capitalism and hence linked to the creation of wealth / affluence at the expense of abject poverty of the majority.

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Without adequate government support, the mass influx of asylum seekers to Athens created a slum where its labyrinth of streets bring together a precarious mix of ethnic rivals, foreign illnesses and abject poverty.

None of these arguments give the Israelis the right to continuously violate the basic human rights of the Palestinian people who live in abject poverty.

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.

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.

We live in a world in which for some, misery is the only reality of existence: people starve to death, live in abject poverty and know unrelieved distress and isolation all their days.

Abject poverty consistently produces a great deal of unhappiness, but that's not the situation for Fishtown.

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.

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First, necessity is often driving the migration — people are fleeing persecution or abject poverty or the prospect of living for years and years without family.

Not surprising, it has taken the Church a long time to develop a critical and prophetic theology with which to confront the social evils and oppression which have condemned the majority of the human family to abject poverty and dehumanizing life.

Just because your god enjoys torturing most of his creation in a fire pit for all eternity doesn't mean we should follow his example and force people to live their entire lives in abject poverty, disease, and pain..

There are hundreds of millions of people living in abject poverty.

You've got a country that already is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere that sits in the shadow of the United States, and so the longings of a life that is not spent in abject poverty is certainly there.

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.

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

In the developing world, it's been correct to oppose formula manufacturers trying to convince people living in abject poverty that formula is somehow «better», in the absence of reliable clean water, and risking malnutrition due to dilution.

In spite of all these wealth and resources, Africa is wallowing in abject poverty, and as much as I agree that some of the causes of this unfortunate situation is the making of Africans themselves, much of the blame must be put at the doorsteps of some western countries, and I will explain.

He further explained that about 16 out of them were later recalled and reinstated while others were left to languish in abject poverty, as they continued to struggle and agitate for justice.

Were the Palestinian people being starved of all manner of supplies and living in abject poverty?

«He was in the Senate and nothing was done through him to support the growth and development of the state, rather his party bastardized the economy and left our people in abject poverty.

May the souls of all security officers particularly, police officers who died in line of duties yet no presidential donations and TrustFunds were established in their memories to take care of their wives and children who are wallowing in abject poverty rest in peace.

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.

We can not continue to die like chicken whilst our wives and children wallow in abject poverty and most at times, the education of deceased police officers children truncates.

Seven years after government compulsorily acquired 702 acres of land for the establishment of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), the 78 owners of the land say they wallow in abject poverty, and are frustrated over government's failure to compensate them.

Child Care subsidies allow working parents to maintain gainful employment rather than being trapped in the abject poverty of welfare dependency,» said County Legislator Lyndon Williams.

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.

Again, as in Dogville, set to David Bowie's «Young Americans,» it's a condensed, horrific view of American history: black - and - white stills of lynchings; color shots of abject poverty; smiling bigots and neo-Nazis; the Civil Rights clashes of the 1960s; stockpiles of firearms; the intact Twin Towers; young soldiers in Vietnam; Martin Luther King, Jr. in his coffin; the dead Malcolm X on a stretcher; and finally, a black man push - brooming the marble crags of the Lincoln Memorial.

With its corrugated tin sheds and abject poverty, District 9 stands in for the township settlements where more than a million South African blacks still live without basic human services, two decades after the end of apartheid.

Based on the best selling autobiography by Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes is the story of young Frankie and his siblings being raised in abject poverty in the slums of Limerick.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«The latest Social Mobility Commission's «State of the Nation» report reveals the Government's abject failure in tackling the root causes of poverty and inequality and in offering hope to communi...

We see and feel the abject poverty of a young woman about to give birth in a dark, sparsely furnished room she shares with her sister.

Her father published a book of staggering success and has written nothing since, leaving the family in abject poverty.

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.

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

Let us also remember the abject poverty of much of India.

To date the LATA Foundation has successfully supported fourteen projects across Latin America including a sewing school in Mexico, a reforestation programme in Peru, turtle protection in Venezuela and a project to provide clean water to a community of a thousand people living in abject poverty in Nicaragua.

A collage of urban squalor, gleaming affluence, abject poverty, exotic consumerism and astounding pollution, its a city that assaults the senses.

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.

Unruly and uncivilized, her characters epitomize both historic conceptions of Appalachia and its current state of anomie and mass - market tastes combined with off - the - grid lifestyles and abject poverty.

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.

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

Solar and wind could protect US lifestyles, but to bring the abject poor out of poverty and provide for 11 billion humans on half as much topsoil will require more industrialization and more energy.