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Poverty is no vice.
There is no greater poverty than injustice toward others.
I don't want my children to experience poverty.
Tom's parents lived in poverty.
Poverty is a preventable cause of death.
Rye was called the grain of poverty.
Girls are more likely than boys to be malnourished, suffer poverty, face violence and be refused an education, according to a new report.
People struggled against poverty.
Poverty with honesty is preferable to wealth obtained by unfair means.
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out the window.
He ascribes his poverty to bad luck.
He was in the grip of poverty.
He is man who I think has never known poverty.
They live in poverty.
Poverty had taught him to stand on his own feet.
Poverty is still the major cause of crime.
Poverty prevented him from attending school.
Ethnic minorities struggle against prejudice, poverty, and oppression.
The country's main social problem is poverty.
Lander assumes that rioting and gang behavior are a result of poverty and poor economic conditions.
The whole nation is waging a war against poverty.
I am happy in spite of poverty.
Many diseases result from poverty.
The president called on the people to unite in fighting poverty and disease.
Crime has often been related to poverty.
Poverty drove him to steal.
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People live in poverty, But I hope she's living well!
There's war, poverty, famine.
In the shelter led by the poverty preacher Elias Renato and his helper Brother Matthias, another party is being held. under different circumstances.
Would you have a few marks for me? I am in absolute poverty.
Here is where I belong. Your presence here is an insult to poverty.
I grew up in the poverty.
The extreme poverty.
The degenaration of these people is caused mainly by hunger lack of hygiene, poverty and incest.
I'm a curtal friar and vowed to poverty.
If this is poverty, I'll gladly share it with you.
It's all on account of poverty, Alyosha.
I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again. Before the war and poverty had done things to you.
Because you make yourselves out to be shepherds of the flock. and yet you allow your sheep to live in filth and poverty.
The idle tongues. the poverty of mind which you have shown. mean that I have failed to reach most of you with the lesson I was given to teach.
I am in absolute poverty.
The deadly hate of the enemy on poverty took Vasili away from you.
I've worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty. What do you say?
Stay away from that poverty-stricken young soldier or all the plans I have made for you will be spoiled.
But, Father, I love Lorenzo, and I'm not afraid of poverty.
Before the war and poverty had done things to you.
A little happy poverty perhaps, but excitement, adventure and us.
Because you make yourselves out to be shepherds of the flock, and yet you allow your sheep to live in filth and poverty.
All my children all the time blaming me because the old good Lord made me poverty-stricken.
There will be no more poverty.
In dirt and poverty they lead a life which is regulated by outside forces, while their abbots hold the population to ransom, and snatch up the few riches of the country.
I've a brother, always wanted a sister to have poverty as the family I lack.
The poor know all about poverty. and only the morbid rich would find the topic glamorous.
Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms.
Prey to passing prowlers, poverty and policemen, - How poetic.
Life is filthy and brutal. I know what poverty is, and it scares me.
No more poverty for you, no worry, no Gemma.
We're sentenced to poverty and there's nothing we can do.
You may, and I do. Think of the problems it would solve - unemployment, poverty, standing in line for theatre tickets.
But no one else follows them. because everything is a threat when you live in poverty. It never occurs to you that things could change. and the worst is always yet to come.
Having known only poverty.
News and current affairs
Their poverty causes low farm productivity, and low farm productivity reinforces their poverty.
It's a vicious circle, technically known as a poverty trap.
If compensation for wrongs to the Palestinians was to be the guiding principle, there were always better ways of going about it than to found a rickety, poverty-ridden new country dependent on foreign aid.
A targeted support program could increase substantially the efficiency of spending, freeing up resources for education, health, and poverty eradication.
At the Millennium Assembly in 2000, the US promised to pursue reduction of global poverty, yet it has taken few steps in that direction.
If the US really wants to undercut terrorism, it must recognize the interconnectedness of extremism, poverty, and environmental degradation, and it will need to understand the struggles for survival that are underway among the poor everywhere.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has declared that the two issues at the center of the G-8 Summit this July will be African poverty and global climate change.
Greater help for these countries to escape from extreme poverty has been promised for decades but has not been delivered.
Today, we need universities in all parts of the world to help their societies face the challenges of poverty reduction, clean energy, sustainable food supplies, and the rest.
In the post-2015 era, the fight against poverty and the fight to protect the environment will go hand in hand, reinforcing each other.
First, the debts of the countries suffering from extreme poverty and illness would be forgiven entirely.
One may ask whether transparency and the requirement that local landholders consent to a sale is enough to protect people living in poverty.
But, given the pressures of poverty and the lure of cash, what does it take for people to be able to make a genuinely free and informed choice about selling something as significant as a right to land?
Yet, despite great natural wealth, a majority of people in these countries lives in poverty.
Climate change, which was largely brought about by the activities of developed countries, has made it difficult for poor and vulnerable countries to fight poverty.
Failure to do so would be a missed opportunity at a time when African countries must avail themselves of all available resources for poverty reduction.
The struggle to do so has been mighty, but despite our travails--and our poverty--I believe that my country has the strength to contribute creatively to this endeavour.
China implemented the policies that engineered history's greatest poverty eradication program prior to, and independently from, the Millennium Declaration and the MDGs.
Even here, the MDGs contain no numerical target for financial aid or any other aspect of rich countries' assistance, in contrast to the highly specific poverty-related targets set for developing countries.
Reducing unemployment is desirable, of course, but many terrorists do not come from poverty.
And, sadly, things have become worse in the past 30 years, as Afghanistan's particular brand of Islam, combined with its legacy of dire poverty and war, compounds an already misogynist pre-Islamic tradition.
Every person pushed back into poverty is another step away from achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
So petrodollars exacerbate poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, not cure it.
Some development researchers have started to make a compelling case, too, that oppression of women impedes countries' efforts to escape poverty.
Obviously, the legacy of colonialism - widespread hunger, illiteracy, lack of property or legal recourse, and vulnerability to state violence - is a major factor in their current poverty.