Sentences with phrase «utter poverty»

In other words, as people move out of utter poverty into the middle class lifestyle or something better, their resource demands for energy, for all kinds of materials, goes up.
It really goes back to a period of utter poverty I lived in back in the early to mid 90's.
In the United States today, for example, 99.9 percent of us derive from families that came to the United States in utter poverty» the «wretched refuse» of the earth, as the poem on the Statue of Liberty said of our grandparents.
In many cases, liberalization has been accompanied by greater inequality and people are left trapped in utter poverty.
But we have to work for these people who are living in utter poverty and are oppressed by other people.
And you may end up being born in utter poverty that may prevent you from being happy, or you may start off being wealthy but then you may suffer calamities like disease and natural disasters, so assuming you're risk averse (as humans tend to be in most circumstances), you'd want the government to have a safety net to shelter you from such risks.
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