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impoverished

(= destitute) poor enough to need help from others (= broken) destroyed financially the broken fortunes of the family

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Haiti is a nation that seems hopelessly impoverished.
The war lasting for years impoverished the country.

Movie subtitles

The impoverished, petty, strife-torn kingdoms of Western Europe embarked on five centuries of uninterrupted expansion.
In those days, in Marstrand, there lived an impoverished fish hawker, a man known as Torarin.
The impoverished young maid, the sole survivor of the bloodbath, was taken by Torarin to come live with him and his mother in their cottage.
A new bracelet versus a thousand impoverished customers.
Mr. Madigan, if you're impoverished, it's my duty to appoint an attorney on your behalf.
What if my father is a prince of an impoverished branch?
Is our storehouse of brainpower so impoverished, that for this office. which can affect the destiny of our nation, of the world. there is no other man but Robert A. Leffingwell?
If you don't mind traveling in such impoverished company. I might be able to help you.
The art in Paris is impoverished.
Adopted at age two from a cruel and impoverished orphanage by a career military man and his wife she was subjected to an upbringing of extreme discipline which left her shy and withdrawn.
Do spare us your impoverished witticisms, Mr Pierce.
His mother was Russian, from an impoverished noble family.
Are we impoverished now?
What happens to impoverished societies.
He could not see you impoverished.
Impoverished?
Yes. Then you are used to lending your treasures to impoverished Europe.
We must psychedelicize their impoverished dreams.
Tell me all about your impoverished childhood.
And died, you know, the following winter, leaving as my inheritance only this photograph and little Alex in an impoverished orphanage.
An impoverished aristocrat fishing for 40 millions.
Both me. and you. my impoverished companion. abandoned our humble song. to set out on a distant journey.
Impoverished childhood in Kremenchug!
Is our language so impoverished. that we have to use acronyms or French phrases to make ourselves understood?
I tell myself, at my age, this is not the first time that impoverished periods have occurred.
And in the meantime, if there were impoverished periods, that's quite normal, but it's not the fact of poverty that i find disturbing, but rather the insolence or impudence of people who inhabit the impoverished periods.
As you know, I came from an impoverished family in an impoverished town.
An impoverished soul like myself?
Impoverished places are an incubator for the worst crime.
Yes, yes, I'm an impoverished student.
Forgive Jean-Paul's tactics, Mr. Burdett, but to put it bluntly, the impoverished people of this island need your help. Hmm.
This is an impoverished neighborhood.

News and current affairs

Many rainforest countries have united in recent years to suggest the establishment of a rainforest conservation fund by the rich countries, to pay impoverished small farmers a small amount of money to preserve the forest.
The global companies operating in the delta have spilled oil and flared natural gas for decades, without regard for the natural environment and the communities impoverished and poisoned by their actions.
Meanwhile, the local population has remained impoverished and beset by diseases caused by unsafe air, poisoned drinking water, and pollution in the food chain.
Despite many past promises of a cleanup, Ogoniland remains in environmental agony, impoverished and sickened by the oil industry.
A generous visa regime and the use of regional development funds in Ukraine that will benefit impoverished eastern Poland, are two possible inducements.
BERLIN - The world's task in addressing North Korea's saber rattling is made no easier by the fact that it confronts an impoverished and effectively defeated country.
Russia, despite Siberia's massive oil and gas riches, isn't even investing enough to support healthy growth in its energy industries, much less human development in the country's impoverished areas (including hapless Siberia).
The Bank similarly missed crucial opportunities to support smallholder subsistence farmers and to promote integrated rural development more generally in impoverished rural communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
For around 20 years, roughly from 1985 to 2005, the Bank resisted the well-proven use of targeted support for small landholders to enable impoverished subsistence farmers to improve yields and break out of poverty.
Rather, we should question whether, in a world in which 25,000 impoverished children die unnecessarily every day, another concert hall is what the world needs.
But India's fiscal position remains challenging, and the country's population, which will soon overtake China's, remains mostly rural and impoverished.
In practically all impoverished societies, parents place wages above education.
For 25 years, the Bank tried to get governments out of agriculture, leaving impoverished peasants to fend for themselves.
Red Cross chapters across Africa, in partnership with other organizations, are now distributing bed nets free of charge to impoverished families, in the same way that Rotary has been distributing polio vaccines.
Peasant farmers in Africa, Haiti, and other impoverished regions currently plant their crops without the benefit of high-yield seed varieties and fertilizers.
There is now widespread agreement on the need for increased donor financing for small farmers (those with two hectares or less of land, or impoverished pastoralists), which is especially urgent in Africa.
The 2008 planting seasons came and went with much too little additional help for impoverished small farmers.
The increasingly impoverished lives of peasants that the book vividly documented resulted from the very abuses of power that Hu Jintao had declared himself to be against.
While both are developing countries - many of whose people remain impoverished - they also boast impressive capabilities in information age technologies both for civilian and military purposes.
Impoverished communities are cheering the prospect of a rapid ramp-up in girls' education, if meager resources permit.

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