Sentences with phrase «scarred by poverty»

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The resultant peace is scarred by the enduring poverty that brought the war in the first place, and by the violence all too commonplace in countries where the «cold war» was fought — countries still awash in weapons.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

«All the progress our country has made in a decade fighting the scar of child poverty has been wiped out by the decisions of just one year.

Young Stalin tells the story of a charismatic, darkly turbulent boy born into poverty, of doubtful parentage, scarred by his upbringing but possessed of unusual talents.

Scarred by violence, poverty and humiliation, Alexander Hamilton rose to become one of America's Founding Fathers... His devoted wife stayed by his side, no matter how neglected... A Master Passion, the story of Elizabeth and Alexander Hamilton by Juliet Waldron