Sentences with phrase «with abject poverty»

No wonder — he was dealing with abject poverty, but this privileged Westerner on a three - month jaunt in Southeast Asia shed tears over these (admittedly impressive) ancient stone buildings, which he got to see every day.

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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But such folly is recorded in the OT Israelites whose greed drove them to give up their relatively egalitarian social system and to emulate the neighboring Amorites with their disparities from fabulous wealth to abject poverty.

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.

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.

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.

Frankie Shaw writes, directs, and stars as Bridgette Bird, a single aspiring actress who is raising a toddler, juggling tutoring jobs with whatever free childcare she can scrounge, and staving off abject poverty.

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.

«I know kids can overcome poverty, but when students are living in abject poverty in segregated communities with poor health care and housing, that makes the work for our teachers all the more challenging.»

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.

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.

You need not demonstrate abject poverty, only the inability to keep up with mortgage payments.

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.

They are attempting to return the wold back to the way it was, with a few privileged nobles while everyone else lives as serfs in abject poverty and powerlessness while paying for the privilege to do so, and away form this newfangled idea that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.

«These people,» says Rucker, «need cheap, reliable, abundant energy and the infrastructure it can support, in order to climb out of abject poverty, lengthen life spans grossly shortened by disease and malnutrition, and terminate the tyranny of neo-colonialists who, in the name of «preventing climate change,» continue to rule over them with iron fists.»

Thus are we receiving supplies from one party and witnessing the most abject poverty in another but it is perfectly consistent with the nature of the country that it being not at all uncommon for one set of Indians to be absolutely starving while another party at the distance of 40 miles are living in the utmost profusion.