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Example sentences for: impoverished

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(He's well on his way: The Associated Press reported this week that two airplanes bought by his "Operation Blessing" to fly aid to impoverished Zairians were used instead to service Robertson's Zairian diamond mines.)
Clearly, these long-term trends and federal policies left cities besieged and impoverished.
"Organ Watch" has been formed to monitor what UC Berkeley anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes calls "modern cannibalism"--the theft of body parts from corpses--which occurs predominantly in impoverished areas around the globe.
Although many critiques of globalization and free trade depend, at least implicitly, on Marx's immiseration thesis, which held that growth in a capitalist economy inevitably impoverished most while enriching a few, the experience of most capitalist economies, and especially those in the Third World, has demonstrated exactly the opposite.
Soutine was born the 10 th of 11 children to an impoverished tailor (or more precisely a "mender") and his wife in Smilovitchi, a village near Minsk.