| 单词 | poverty-stricken |
| 例句 | Until 1996, there was a basic understanding that poverty-stricken mothers raising children should be afforded some minimal level of assistance with food and shelter. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For Segre, a friend and collaborator of Enrico Fermi’s who was heading home to a professorship at Italy’s poverty-stricken University of Palermo, these pieces of radioactive shrapnel were priceless. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The racially segregated, poverty-stricken ghettos that exist in inner-city communities across America would not exist today but for racially biased government policies for which there has never been meaningful redress. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Thus it is here, in the poverty-stricken, racially segregated ghettos, where the War on Poverty has been abandoned and factories have disappeared, that the drug war has been waged with the greatest ferocity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z My hero, Cove, a level-seventeen sorcerer with fire for hair, can’t advance through this poverty-stricken kingdom without an offering to the princess. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Dominic Cooper’s Jesse Custer is a superhero for our times, a grimy lowlife turned man of God who suddenly finds himself empowered to shake up his poverty-stricken neighbourhood with a gift from on high. The Incredible Hulk, Jessica Jones and the best comic book TV shows ever 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The album title refers to Trash Talk's living quarters, a repurposed mattress factory near the city's poverty-stricken Skid Row district. Trash Talk fly the black flag for Californian DIY punk 2012-10-12T14:00:00Z But surprisingly, opposition to the cleanup came from the city council’s most liberal members, who worried about displacing the poverty-stricken residents living on the river’s banks. Let’s swim to work! 2012-09-15T13:30:00Z Alien behemoths aside, "Dark Continent" follows a fairly conventional trajectory that takes the soldiers from poverty-stricken Detroit — via an overlong exposition — to the treacherous Middle East on a mission to locate MIAs. 'Monsters: Dark Continent' leaves the original far, far behind 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The diary opens on her 10th birthday, after she and Jeanie leave their abusive, poverty-stricken childhood home in Boston for life in New York with their older sister Rosie and her husband Lou. Jami Attenberg novel pays tribute to big-hearted 'Saint Mazie' 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z A writer from her poverty-stricken childhood to her death in 2006 at the age of 58, she committed her life to turning speculative fiction into a home for Black expression. The Essential Octavia Butler 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z That miserable child in Omelas is a close relative of the poverty-stricken but threatening children who clutch at the skirts of the Ghost of Christmas Present in Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.” Perspective | Margaret Atwood: We lost Ursula Le Guin when we needed her most 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z "Chinese people's knowledge of Western authors still far outweighs Westerners' knowledge of Chinese authors," said Liu Xinglong, author of the winning book, "Heavenly Mission," about the perseverance of teachers in poverty-stricken rural areas of China. Chinese writers call for more translations 2011-08-26T11:11:09Z As the dreaded war draws to a violent end, Felix discovers, cares for and becomes a parent to a group of poverty-stricken, vulnerable children who unite together to fight for survival... After by Morris Gleitzman - review 2013-05-05T14:00:00Z It really is one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the United States. Naomie Harris Explains How ‘Moonlight’ Avoided Crack-Addict Stereotypes 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z From start to finish, JK Rowling's main area of conflict is between the selfish middle-class villagers and the noble savages on the poverty-stricken estate. Muted enthusiasm for Rowling book 2012-09-27T10:23:32Z Still, he readily acknowledges that in his poverty-stricken homeland, he is a privileged person. Using His Camera as a Witness and Weapon 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Close to half of poverty-stricken kids live in extreme poverty, which means their families earn less than half the poverty level of $11, 746 per year for a family of four. 5 of the worst states to grow up poor 2014-02-21T12:50:00Z And after lifting himself from a poverty-stricken childhood, he wants the proverbial piece of the pie. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z He was also celebrated with a gala screening of Raining Stones, a 1993 film about a poverty-stricken suburban family that Loach said was "still relevant" and, despite the subject, "quite a cheerful film". Ken Loach wins Berlin's Golden Bear 2014-02-14T13:57:24Z Adunni’s is a poverty-stricken world where girls kneel to their fathers and address them as “Sah” without looking them in the eye, where a paternal summons portends nothing but heartache. In Rural Nigeria, a Heroine Who Wants to Be Defined by More Than Marriage 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z I understood that these places were poverty-stricken and ripe with ambient desperation, but I did not suspect that they were any more dangerous than anywhere else in the city. Confessions of a reluctant gentrifier 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z CANNES, France — Sean Penn tried to turn the conversation at the Cannes Film Festival to Haiti, hosting a fundraiser for the earthquake-ravaged and poverty-stricken country. Sean Penn holds Haiti fundraiser at Cannes 2012-05-18T20:51:08Z Men with sculpted eyebrows who wear their white shirts unbuttoned to reveal tight pectoral muscles gyrate furiously next to orange women who stitch the hair of poverty-stricken Russian teenagers into the backs of their heads. This week's new singles 2011-08-12T23:07:56Z Speaking of those millions, a huge part of Parton's legend is her poverty-stricken backstory and she makes as many references to what she calls her "hillbilly ways" in conversation as she does in her songs. Dolly Parton: 'I may look fake but I'm real where it counts' 2011-08-21T19:00:00Z The excellent The Hired Man continues at the Bolton Octagon and The Road to Nab End, a memoir of a poverty-stricken northern childhood is at the Oldham Coliseum. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-06-18T14:40:00Z Méliès's final, poverty-stricken years were spent working in a toy booth at a Parisian station following the liquidation of his film studio. Cohen roles 2010-03-16T11:56:00Z Banks is investigating the death of a former political radical, who became a poverty-stricken recluse after losing his teaching job over allegations of sexual misconduct. May crime fiction: Oates, Robinson and NW authors 2014-05-07T20:18:58Z In Season 5 of Showtime’s “Shameless,” hipsters move into the Gallaghers’ poverty-stricken Chicago neighborhood. Cedric the Entertainer’s ‘The Neighborhood’ joins a wave of TV shows about gentrification 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Despite Price's hope for missionary work in Orlando, Florida, the two are ordered to save souls in war-torn, poverty-stricken Uganda. The Book of Mormon ? review 2011-03-27T00:05:50Z Juggalo culture is what happens when hip-hop settles in the poverty-stricken cities and suburbs of America's rust belt. Insane Clown Posse: a magnet for ignorance 2010-08-18T16:08:00Z For many of the poverty-stricken hordes of Naples, street fare was the only way of procuring a meal. Italians avoided pizza for centuries — tourism changed everything 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z I’d seen too many U.N. officials arrogantly careering through poverty-stricken countries in their gleaming white S.U.V.’s, seemingly indifferent to the suffering right in front of their eyes. Television: Greg Barker?s Film About Sergio Vieira de Mello 2010-04-30T19:38:00Z It is the story of a poverty-stricken young woman whose only friend is her ailing clergyman father. ArtsBeat: Jane Austen Manuscript Sold for $1.6 Million 2011-07-14T17:06:59Z An introductory voice-over announces the movie as a depiction of life among the “poverty-stricken classes,” facetiously defined as the “common people” who “travel on streetcars.” The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema Lives Quietly Online 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The Banning family’s casual arrogance in assuming that they are “good” whites to their poverty-stricken black employees can grate on the modern reader’s nerves, as can the irony-free, subservient attitudes their most trusted servants display. Review | John Grisham’s new novel wades into Mississippi’s racist past 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Edwards, "The Better Angels" paints Lincoln's poverty-stricken childhood in a log cabin deep in the woods of Indiana. 'The Better Angels' a fragmented look at Lincoln's boyhood 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z However, what we shot was a real artistic, beautiful, more poverty-stricken glimpse of the city. | Britain’s R&B Wunderkind (And This Weekend’s ‘SNL’ Guest) Sam Smith 2014-03-25T18:55:16Z Thanks to their initial hit, the Hughes brothers were able to make “Dead Presidents” two years later, about a Black Vietnam veteran who resorts to robbing banks to feed his poverty-stricken family. ‘Menace II Society’ at 30: A Bleak Nightmare Then, a Milestone Now 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Leaders he linked in songs to corruption remain close to the levers of power in this oil-rich but poverty-stricken country. New Nigeria museum fetes late Afrobeat singer Fela 2012-10-16T11:31:05Z A thinly disguised Cezanne is portrayed by his school friend Emile Zola as a poverty-stricken outsider in the novel The Masterpiece. Who would be the worst artist to spend Christmas with? 2012-12-19T13:01:59Z They all make fun of my lust for creating, this madness which enables so many poverty-stricken peasants to buy their daily bread. Inside France's $100 Million Palace Pompadour, A Royal Chateau Restored By A Press-Shy Philanthropist 2013-03-28T11:00:00Z A few years later, poverty-stricken in his almost empty Paris flat, Henry committed suicide. The story of the Sackvilles 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z Federal prosecutors allege the hunts were unlicensed and the men illegally sold the tribe's wildlife, but supporters say the hunts were organized to boost the poverty-stricken reservation's economy and raise its profile. 3 Mont. tribal leaders indicted in singers' hunts 2013-01-09T04:01:05Z A maid in Stockholm at 13, a fashion model in 1930s Paris, unemployed and poverty-stricken in New York, torpedoed in World War II: Doris struggles like Job. Hygge and Kisses 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z When her son carries her up the snowy mountainside and abandons her, she embraces the advent of what she believes will be an honorable death, especially when her progeny in the poverty-stricken village face starvation. 'Dendera': Yuya Sato on his fable about old women battling a bear 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z After Kennedy toured the poverty-stricken Mississippi delta, King praised him. Book excerpt: The untold story of MLK and RFK 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z There are so many stories about the educational system just in terms of terrible schools in poverty-stricken neighborhoods, a lot of stories about the school-to-prison pipeline. White adults need to watch “America to Me,” the most important show about teens on TV now 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z Machen is equally good at evoking a labyrinthine London based on his own poverty-stricken years spent in poky garrets. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z This means the already mounting list of disruptions in commerce could result in disaster for poverty-stricken regions of Europe, Asia and Africa. Surging prices and wheat shortages: How the invasion of Ukraine is impacting global food supplies 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z "Winter's Bone," based on a novel by Daniel Woodrell, tells the story of a poverty-stricken young woman in the Ozarks who must take desperate measures to keep her family together. Former Seattleite Anne Rosellini receives 'surreal' Oscar nod for 'Winter's Bone' 2011-01-26T01:10:05Z Renner plays the equally maverick leader of the New Jersey state assembly, described as a local hero who represents the poverty-stricken district of Camden. David O Russell's Abscam film to be named American Hustle 2013-04-16T11:34:02Z Instead, it paints a picture of country life quite unlike anything else in current music: harsh, mechanised and poverty-stricken, forgotten in an era that tends to concentrate on urban deprivation, facing an uncertain future. Hacker Farm: UHF – review 2012-12-20T15:29:01Z A 10-year-old boy sits in his living room in a poverty-stricken South African township, singing his heart out and strumming a guitar that threatens to dwarf him. Fame finally finds 10-year-old township singing sensation 2013-01-23T16:11:20Z “I wanted to write a novel about a guy struggling in Skid Row with a poverty-stricken life,” he says. In California, Finding ‘Fat City’ With the Man Who Wrote It 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Penn earlier in the day tried to turn the conversation to Haiti, hosting a fundraiser for the earthquake-ravaged and poverty-stricken country. Cannes guests bid up to $255,656 at Haiti auction 2012-05-19T13:18:08Z Most of us would be happier to share bodily fluids with another human than be transparent about our earnings I’ve certainly met far more poverty-stricken geniuses than I’ve encountered impressive millionaires in my lifetime. My partner lives in my home - but what is fair financially? | Mariella Frostrup 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Rates of female unemployment are also higher in more rural and poverty-stricken regions, of course, like the Deep South, Appalachia, Northern Michigan, and various locations in the middle of the country. What Unemployed People Do With Their Time 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Possessed by a diabolical “passion to create beauty,” he leaves for Tahiti, where, like Gauguin, he dies in poverty-stricken obscurity, having triumphantly realized his vision. Photos, Perhaps, Show a Rare Glimpse of Gauguin in Tahiti 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Earlier this year, she went to India, to highlight the stigma surrounding menstruation for poverty-stricken women in Delhi and Mumbai, writing a piece for Time magazine in which she advocated “policy-making surrounding menstrual health initiatives”. I usually disparage the royals, but Meghan Markle has changed that 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z For decades, South Korea was a war-torn, poverty-stricken country. How Korean boy band BTS toppled Asian stereotypes — and took America by storm 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Located in Edinburgh's underground vaults, once housing the city's worst poverty-stricken slums, the aptly named Banshee Labyrinth claims to be Scotland's most haunted nightclub and hosts this month's outing by the Anagram guys. This week's new clubs 2012-08-24T23:05:00Z The smell of meat empanadas and roasting chicken mixed with fresh mountain breezes blowing through this once disaffected, disconnected poverty-stricken sprawl. Medellín, Colombia: a miracle of reinvention 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z It is smaller than Connecticut, with a population about the same as Little Rock, Ark. It was a poverty-stricken community of pearl divers until the development of oil reserves in the 1950s. Don’t censor the school-lunch blog 2012-06-15T16:15:00Z The men's attorneys say they were only trying to raise the poverty-stricken reservation's profile and economy but admit they did not obtain the proper licenses. Blackfeet men plead guilty to wildlife charges 2013-03-06T04:19:46Z Greedo didn’t find success until the age of 30 largely because of his inability to avoid the carceral traps common to Watts’s poverty-stricken but creatively fertile Jordan Downs Projects. 03 Greedo has spent the last two years in a Texas prison but is still the beating heart of L.A.’s rap scene 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z It hardly seems a coincidence that Don shares details about his poverty-stricken childhood while at the diner. 'Mad Men' recap: 'The life not lived' 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Tsvyk’s products went as far as India and poverty-stricken countries in North Africa, he says. As the Black Sea becomes a battleground, one Ukrainian farmer doesn’t know how he’ll sell his grain 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z "They have no choice because they are poverty-stricken," said Josue Aruna, president of the province's environmental civil society group, who does community outreach with the Batwa. Broken promises drive exiled hunter-gatherers back to Congolese gorilla refuge 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z A turn of events separates mother and daughter, leaving the young girl to survive in a poverty-stricken environment with other kids in a similar situation. 5 must-see films from this year's Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z How many poverty-stricken families must be exploited before we understand the value of all human lives? Child labor laws: Removing child labor protections 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z “I was always under Blue Cross, like a great Cadillac healthcare plan, because of the Teamsters,” Dougherty said, noting the distinction from her peers in the poverty-stricken area of Detroit she grew up in. The writers' strike's top ally: an F-bomb-throwing Teamster with a Jimmy Hoffa tattoo 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z King reminded the crowd that “in our own nation there are about 40 million people who are poverty-stricken.” MLK gave his last sermon 55 years ago — and warned of a fascist takeover 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z As bodies continue washing up in a poverty-stricken part of Calabria, some local residents wonder whether a hard-line government understands what drives migration. Submarine Deal With U.S. and U.K. Sparks Debate in Australia 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z He grew up in the projects, in a poverty-stricken area of New York called the Far Rockaways, where some young men whiled away time getting high. War on drugs locked him up; now he’s a cannabis entrepreneur 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z By the turn of the millennium, Buffalo ranked as one of the most poverty-stricken cities in the nation. He fled Congo’s war and froze on a Buffalo street 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z In the past few years, thousands of migrants from poverty-stricken or war-ravaged countries in Africa, Middle East and Afghanistan have perished in the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea. Mass funeral in Gaza draws tears, rare criticism of Hamas 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z The number of asylum seekers trying to reach Europe from Turkey, mainly from war-torn or poverty-stricken countries in the Middle East and Africa, has fallen since Europe’s 2015 migration crisis. At least 20 migrants drown off Greek island, dozens more feared dead 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z They take umbrage at what they consider condescension from outsiders who view their communities as poverty-stricken, and they bemoan “Ph.D pollution” from the big local university, Virginia Tech. Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated. 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Many said his calls to protest gave them purpose beyond the monotony of their poverty-stricken lives. In Baghdad’s Sadr City, cleric’s support underpins protests 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z She lacks the infrastructure of a big political organisation, but has a clear campaign focus in the coastal county known both for its multi-million-dollar holiday homes and poverty-stricken villages. Kenyan health activist moves from mangrove swamps to politics 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z It's dangerous work, but it's a custom dating back generations, and for the poverty-stricken hunters the best way of earning a living. What it’s like tripping on mad honey, the hallucinogen that (maybe) is an aphrodisiac 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Deploring the suffering of free but poverty-stricken wage laborers and denouncing the competitive economy that left them starving, Fitzhugh condemned free society as merely giving “license to the strong to oppress the weak.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The group focuses on helping those in what it calls “poverty-stricken” areas. 28 people shot, one fatally, during gunfight at Arkansas car show, police say 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z In a poverty-stricken country facing mounting violence by Islamist militants, marrying off daughters means fewer mouths to feed. Escaping forced marriage, Burkina Faso girls find refuge in education 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Burkina Faso, a poverty-stricken country with limited water and natural resources, seems an unlikely setting for a stirring revolution. Assassinated in His Prime, an Iconic African Leader Haunts a Trial and His Country 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Rebuilding public health in chaotic, poverty-stricken Venezuela is not for the faint of heart. A network of young scientists and doctors aims to rebuild Venezuela’s devastated public health system 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z As my colleague Mike DiGiovanna compiled the statistics from sources including Forbes and other potentate trackers, even the most poverty-stricken owners have net worths in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Column: The rich men who control baseball show they don't care about fans, again 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Covey has plans for her life that involve escaping her poverty-stricken community to study in London with her sweetheart, Gibbs Grant. Review | The delectable ‘Black Cake’ considers how history and chance alter a family 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z In terms of policy, he and his congressional allies credit Clyburn with pushing for the “10-20-30 formula,” which directs investments to poverty-stricken communities, to be included in the president’s budget request. Clyburn pushes his pick for Supreme Court, testing his sway with Biden 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z The Oscar-winning actress – whose résumé includes roles in “The Help” and “The Suicide Squad” – opens up about her poverty-stricken childhood in Rhode Island, and how she overcame the odds to make it in Hollywood. The books to read in 2022 based on what you loved in 2021 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Before big levees were built along the American River and muddy Sacramento River, the two waterways would overtop their banks, forcing poverty-stricken Sacramentans to escape inundation by converging on one of the town’s few hills. Joan Didion detached herself from Sacramento, but it shaped her view of California 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z A surfeit of unlicensed guns and private armies controlled by powerful clans and weak law enforcement in rural regions are among the security concerns journalists face in the poverty-stricken Southeast Asian country. Filipino journalist shot dead while watching TV in store 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z After a two-day visit to Cyprus, the pope traveled to Greece, one of the main entry points into the European Union for asylum-seekers fleeing war and poverty-stricken homelands in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Pope Francis arrives in Greece to highlight migrants' plight 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Kabila, then just 33, was the new president of Congo after the assassination of his father, another tragic milepost on the poverty-stricken country’s road of violence and political disruption. A Power Struggle Over Cobalt Rattles the Clean Energy Revolution 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Armed groups have stepped up attacks in a poverty-stricken, arid zone of West Africa encompassing the borderlands of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso in recent years. Gunmen kill up to 15 soldiers in southwest Niger, sources say 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z West and Central Africa have seen four coups since last year - a political upheaval that has intensified concerns about a backslide towards military rule in a resource-producing but poverty-stricken region. Mali tells U.N. it will confirm post-coup election date in December 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Sexton, 35, said she hired Conn for her disability case more than 15 years ago, when the millionaire lawyer was using billboards and ads all around the poverty-stricken region, promising benefits for disabilities. Kentucky fraudster’s disability clients remain in legal mess 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z West and Central Africa has seen four coups since last year - political upheaval that has intensified concerns about a slide towards military rule in a resource-rich but poverty-stricken region. Guinea swears in coup leader as interim president 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Xu has remained mostly out of the spotlight, his evolution from poverty-stricken boy to property tycoon no longer useful for the national narrative. China and Evergrande Ascended Together. Now One Is About to Fall. 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z One reason that so few children go to school in Afghanistan is that more than 2 million children between the ages of 6 and 14 have to work to support their poverty-stricken families. Will the Afghan crisis finally bring down the U.S. empire of war, corruption and poverty? 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z “What the Fellowship is saying isn’t that this is the most poverty-stricken country in the world, and we need this help because we’re worse than anyone else,” she said. Meet the Jewish woman raising millions from evangelical Christians to alleviate poverty in Israel 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z The irrepressibly optimistic Kom, who rose from a poverty-stricken Manipur childhood and defied her father’s initial skepticism about boxing to become a six-time amateur world champion, reacted to her defeat with good sportsmanship and pragmatism. Boxer Mary Kom won’t rule out Olympic future after loss 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Moïse’s assassination set off a power struggle in the violence- and poverty-stricken country. Wives of alleged Haiti assassins left in the dark, desperate for word or to repatriate bodies 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Recalling his poverty-stricken upbringing in the east end of Sunderland, he said his first conviction was for smuggling watches from Rotterdam. George Reynolds: Ex-Darlington FC chairman with criminal past dies 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z He celebrated his surprise victory from the poverty-stricken highland region of Cajamarca, where as a youth he was part of the peasant security patrol that enforces local laws and customs. Peru Election for the 5th President in 5 Years Goes to Runoff 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Republican critics of the bill say they fear it will increase gasoline prices in the poverty-stricken state and the burden would be felt mostly by lower-income residents. Clean fuel standard wins approval by New Mexico Senate 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Republican lawmakers and other critics dispute that claim, saying such a proposal would lead to higher gas prices in the poverty-stricken state and the burden would be felt mostly by lower income residents. Clean fuel proposal gets green light from New Mexico panel 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Or if you live in a remote rural area or a poverty-stricken, underserved neighborhood? Perspective | I got the coronavirus vaccine, and cheer has replaced fear 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z The army handed power to General Min Aung Hlaing and imposed a state of emergency for a year, crushing hopes the poverty-stricken country also known as Burma was on the path to stable democracy. Suu Kyi's party demands her release as Myanmar generals tighten grip on power 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z The sudden turn of events in the early hours of Monday derailed years of efforts to establish democracy in the poverty-stricken country and raised more questions over the prospect of returning a million Rohingya refugees. Coup prompts outcry from Myanmar as West ponders how to respond 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Such is the case in the poverty-stricken Ampliación Magdalena neighborhood on Mexico City’s rough east side, where most people work off-the-books as day laborers at the city’s sprawling produce market. Mexico tops 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, 4th country to do so 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z She said some Democrats among New Mexico’s congressional delegation understand the importance of the industry and that she hopes to work with them to find a path forward that preserves jobs in the poverty-stricken state. Key GOP win wrinkles Democratic wave in New Mexico 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Mattison grew up in San Bernardino, an often dangerous and poverty-stricken city in Southern California. Mattison ready to step in for Vikings if Cook can’t play 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z “She Come by It Natural” is a paean to cultural icon Dolly Parton, who emerged from her poverty-stricken upbringing in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., to become a country superstar and philanthropist. Review: How Dolly Parton became an unsung icon of the feminist working class 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Montoya, who is running to represent the state’s poverty-stricken 40th District, has tried to keep the focus of his campaign on substantive issues like resolving educational and economic inequality. Democrat candidate ‘not proud’ of his past work starring in porn films 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z They often function as conduits to poverty-stricken neighborhoods, providing low cost loans and access to capital that wouldn’t typically be available. Insider Q&A: City First CEO on why Black-led banks matter 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z The situation is not much better in other poverty-stricken states of India such as Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. India Is in Denial about the COVID Crisis 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z In fact, of the top 10 worst poverty-stricken states in the nation, all but one are in the SEC or Big 12 and will be playing football. LOVERRO: Football at any cost is too high a price 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Starring Emily Watson and Robert Carlyle, it told the story of a five-year-old boy in poverty-stricken 1930s Limerick, who struggles to survive alongside his formidable mother and alcoholic father. In Pictures: Alan Parker's film legacy 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Loss of life will continue to be a main risk in poverty-stricken areas, just as financial fragility and wealth destruction are unfortunately likely to continue for some time. "Regression to the tail": How to mitigate COVID-19, the climate crisis and other catastrophes 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z Historians say the insects, which range throughout Asia but are found most commonly in Japan, were once valued along with other wasps as a cheap source of protein in poverty-stricken rural areas. In Japan, the ‘Murder Hornet’ Is Both a Lethal Threat and a Tasty Treat 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z “With weak health systems to begin with, many face the dreadful challenge of fighting the virus in densely populated cities and poverty-stricken slums, where social distancing is hardly an option,” Georgieva said. IMF head sees worst economic downturn since Great Depression 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z They were also unable to implement social distancing in their densely populated cities and poverty-stricken slums. IMF chief says pandemic will unleash worst recession since Great Depression 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Scott, who has flaunted his poverty-stricken upbringing in public housing, has resolutely eliminated empathy from his vocabulary. Editorial Roundup: Florida 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z In local news accounts, videos shared on social media and telephone interviews, officials, aid workers and others in the poverty-stricken metropolis are reporting fly-covered bodies on sidewalks and corpses left inside homes for days. Bodies lie in the streets of Guayaquil, Ecuador, emerging epicenter of the coronavirus in Latin America 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z The company is giving back to Bowery Mission, a New York City organization that supports homeless and poverty-stricken populations, by donating three percent of online sales. Coronavirus relief efforts: 24 brands are uniting to donate proceeds to Brands for Better initiative - Golf Digest 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z As with other poverty-stricken states in the region, there are fears about Liberia’s capacity to respond to an outbreak. 'Sensitise to sanitise': Bobi Wine uses song to fight coronavirus across Africa 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z In it, she describes a poverty-stricken Arizona upbringing during which she was homeschooled by her parents but then took control of her own education. In 'Whistleblower,' Susan Fowler reveals the toll of speaking out against Uber 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z That would include anti-slavery causes, international relief in poverty-stricken countries, actions in support of social justice and other forward-looking issues and concerns. Trump and the Christians: Evangelical historian John Fea on decoding the great paradox 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z In all these cases, the poverty-stricken are disdained as undeserving of compassion or assistance. Review | Revealing the devastating costs of childhood poverty 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z The intense boxing drama sees Douglas as Midge Kelly – a poverty-stricken kid with a penchant for punching who fights and claws his way to the top. A look back at Kirk Douglas' biggest roles 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z The poverty-stricken Kims insinuate themselves at every turn into the Parks’ posh lives. Everything you need to know about 'Parasite' and its Oscar nominations 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Two hoodlums, Tom and Matt, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. Movies on TV this week: 'Young Frankenstein' and more 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Radi’s arrest was prompted by a tweet six months ago criticizing a Moroccan court’s decision to hand maximum prison sentences to leaders of mass demonstrations in the poverty-stricken northern Rif region. Moroccan YouTuber sentenced to prison, journalist detained 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z He began what he called a “movement” to provide football jerseys – and hope – to the thousands of displaced, poverty-stricken youngsters living in camps with nothing but the tattered shirts on their backs. How one man used royalty, rednecks and football to help Syrian refugees 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z His most interesting chapters, in some ways, are on the “tin-pot” dictators—like Duvalier, in Haiti, and Mengistu, in Ethiopia—who, ravaging poverty-stricken countries, still conform to the terrible type. The Field Guide to Tyranny 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Macron will also address economic development issues on the poverty-stricken island. French president kicks off trip to overseas territories 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The Czechs and Slovaks could watch the cataclysmic events of the past six months in Poland and Hungary with no real inclination to emulate their poverty-stricken neighbours. How communist Europe was swept by a tide of change - archive, 1989 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Most of the pickers are seasonal migrants from the poverty-stricken south and east of Turkey, mainly Kurds. Is Nutella made with nuts picked by children? 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Batam, once a poverty-stricken corner of the Indonesian archipelago, is on the cusp of a boom thanks to abundant cheap labor and quick access to the adjacent trading hub of Singapore. Trade disputes have tech device giants splitting along U.S.-China lines 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Based on a memoir, four children struggle to grow up in a rambling, poverty-stricken, wildly unconventional environment overseen by their dysfunctional yet uniquely loving parents. Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z He was born in a poverty-stricken area of Sunderland in 1946. Horrible Histories author 'a fish out of water' 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Appearing on "America's Newsroom" Thursday, Hogan told host Bill Hemmer that although he disagreed with the president's "inappropriate" tweets, he believes they brought national attention to the long-time problems of the poverty-stricken city. Maryland Gov. Hogan sees 'silver lining' in Trump-Cummings feud, says Twitter attacks were 'not appropriate' 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z In the memoir corner, we have a traumatic encounter at the train station, a knock on the door of a rundown mansion, and the day a poverty-stricken kid joins Snoop Dogg’s football league. Crazy about books? These 5 L.A. book events offer inspiring stories from Los Angeles and beyond 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Guatemala is one of the biggest sources of migrants to the US, and across the highlands of this poverty-stricken Central American country, churches and clergymen also play a role in the booming business of people-smuggling. Journey of faith – the Guatemalan pastors helping smuggle people into the US 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z When the cost of living is taken into account, billionaire-brimming California ranks as the most poverty-stricken state, with a fifth of the population struggling to get by. New York Times op-ed calls out 'unlivable' conditions in Democratic-led cities 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z “Now I seem to think that Labour is just getting in bed with the Conservatives, and they are the upper middle-class. I honestly think Brexit is the new working-class party for poverty-stricken towns.” Rage, rapture and pure populism: on the road with Nigel Farage 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z López Obrador suggested the Mérida money be shifted to his ambitious plans for economic development in poverty-stricken southern Mexico and Central America, where he has said development would help deter migration. Mexico’s president just says no to U.S. cash to fight drug crime 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z However, experts assert that the number may be significantly higher because many families don’t register underage marriages, especially in border areas and poverty-stricken parts of the country. Iranian girls being forced into child marriage at record rate: report 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Yet on the ground in the poverty-stricken country, views on the app were mixed. As Venezuela's government blocks aid and makes arbitrary arrests, locals turn to an app as a lifeline 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Commonly referred to as the Anglophone region, the self-declared Republic of Ambazonia – which is home to most of the country’s 25 percent English speakers have long been deemed the nation’s most poverty-stricken and underprivileged. War of words: Oppressed English speakers targeted in escalating Cameroonian conflict 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z The widow of a Nigerian activist suing oil giant Shell over the execution of her husband says his death left her "traumatised" and "poverty-stricken". Nigeria widow testifies against Shell 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Last week, a measles outbreak was declared in Metro Manila – populated by 12 million people with many living in poverty-stricken slums. Measles outbreak in Philippines kills 70, with vaccine fearmongering blamed 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Still, many see the latest measure as a mere way for the regime to collect money from already poverty-stricken people. North Koreans ordered to produce impossible amount of human manure every day to help save agriculture: report 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z I will not miss the lack of tools and answers for our homeless, poverty-stricken and abused youth. The imperfect science of juvenile court justice 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Away from the historic centre, in the poverty-stricken community of El Pozón, teenage girls are targets for recruiters. Child sex trafficking rife in Colombia's picturesque Cartagena | Mathew Charles 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z Indigenous people represent about 10% of Mexico’s population, concentrated in certain areas, such as the poverty-stricken southern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas. Mexico's indigenous cultures take inaugural stage as ceremonial healers purify new president 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Other projects envision installing solar panels atop the homes of poverty-stricken families or larger solar panel fields to power sewage-treatment plants so they are not dependent on Gaza’s unreliable electrical grid. With Small Steps, Palestinians and Israelis Try to Tackle Gaza’s Ills 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z An election is due in Bangladesh in December: the one million refugees in Cox’s Bazar are a sensitive political issue in the poverty-stricken country. Rohingya fears grow as refugees face forcible return to Myanmar 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Before receiving “training,” many people in the regions spoke little Chinese and were jobless and poverty-stricken, Zakir said. Amid growing pressure, China defends its detention camps for minority Muslims as anti-extremist job training centers - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Niger, a poverty-stricken nation perched on the southern belt of the Sahara, is rapidly being transformed into one of the world’s most strategic security hubs. ‘A Nest of Spies’: How Poverty-Stricken Niger Is Becoming a Security Hub for the West 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z He said the summit is a “one-shot” chance to resolve the nuclear threat and bring peace and prosperity to the reclusive and poverty-stricken communist country. Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un kick off historic summit with handshake, smiles 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z He has said the summit is a “one-shot” chance to resolve the nuclear threat and bring peace and prosperity to the reclusive and poverty-stricken communist country. Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un to open historic summit with one-on-one powwow 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z He is now the epitome of Glasgow Style but he died 90 years ago in poverty-stricken obscurity after a career that ground to a halt in his early 40s. Mackintosh and the rooms that inspired Europe 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The implications for children growing up in poverty-stricken or traumatic environments were significant. How babies learn – and why robots can’t compete 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z This is our dystopian welfare state: severely underpaid teachers trying to keep poverty-stricken kids alive. On International Women's Day, all I wanted was a day off 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z The virus affected poverty-stricken areas such as Liberia's West Point, where for many, just coping and surviving are everyday victories. Life after Ebola 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z Although the fair originally was designed for homeless veterans, only about half of this year’s record-setting 840 participants were without shelter — the rest being poverty-stricken vets edging closer to the brink of homelessness. Homelessness among veterans rises in D.C. 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z He was raised as one of five children in the poverty-stricken village of Batie and was only 12 when he went to work in the sand mines to support his family. Ngannou could go from homeless to UFC heavyweight champ 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Nasralla has vowed to increase opportunities for the country’s poverty-stricken multitudes. Two weeks after Honduras' still-unresolved election, a sense of disquiet broadens 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z A wily political operator, he managed to hold his disparate and poverty-stricken country together despite tribal squabbles and many insurrections. Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen's enduring leader 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z “Even if it’s going to be another dictator, we accept a new one. Look, we are jobless, hungry and poverty-stricken. All we want is something different.” In Zimbabwe, an anxious wait to see if Mugabe will return after military takeover 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z They were inhabited from prehistory until the 1950s, when — overcrowded, poverty-stricken and disease-ridden — they were evacuated by the state. Where to Stay (and What to Eat) in Matera, Italy 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z "It's making the area look poverty-stricken," she says. Big banks say goodbye to suburbia 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Just as it is not their fault their families were oppressed by dictators or sandwiched between conflicting sides of a civil war or born in poverty-stricken countries. Opinion | America needs to welcome immigrants, not deport them 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z “It concentrates poverty in a poverty-stricken neighborhood,” said David Smith, president of the Deanwood Civic Association. A D.C. food desert welcomes the rebirth of a gastronomic landmark 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Polgovsky’s most acclaimed movies documented his peasant Mexican compatriots, notably the poverty-stricken, downtrodden indigenous population still treated as third-class citizens by the middle and wealthy classes, and not least the police. Eugenio Polgovsky, award-winning filmmaker who cast austere eye on Mexico, dies at 40 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Some recent research suggests that the affordable housing properties built with the tax credits help to integrate and revitalize otherwise poverty-stricken neighborhoods. How affordable housing can chip away at residential segregation 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Barrett also visited the nearby White Lion Trust Orphanage and School, which is run by the trust in one of the most poverty-stricken areas of South Africa. ‘Lion Lady’ brings awareness of animals to South Dakota 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z A year later, many residents and business owners who live and work near the scene of Alton Sterling’s shooting remain frustrated by the lack of progress in the poverty-stricken Baton Rouge neighborhood. Progress elusive in neighborhood rocked by police shooting 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z How do you help a poverty-stricken child whose parents were killed in front of her? Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z It was incorporated in 1989 after starting off as a colonia – the name for a poverty-stricken border neighbourhood without basic facilities. The small Texas city fighting to remain a ‘safe haven’ for immigrants 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z She remembers the young man as a disheveled and poverty-stricken 14-year-old when he entered the ninth grade. Homeless to Harvard 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z What's that got to do with a skint, poverty-stricken man in rags dying on a cross? Jimmy McGovern: 'I cry when I write' - BBC News 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z That means the majority of our children in poverty-stricken urban areas such as Southeast are being raised by single mothers. Opinion | We can’t keep leaving black girls behind 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Katrina shows what happens when a disaster hits a fragile, poverty-stricken and socially fragmented city. Nuclear war has become thinkable again – we need a reminder of what it means 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Steeled by years in China’s poverty-stricken countryside where they had been banished by Chairman Mao Zedong, they returned to China’s cities to drive the changes that have turned China into the world’s second largest economy. Opinion | Exploring the dreams of China’s pampered and restless millennial generation 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z But, in combining mandates with subsidies, regulation, and access to a state-administered system for the poverty-stricken and low-paid, it is intellectually coherent. The Health-Care Debacle Was a Failure of Conservatism 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z In “Tea Girl,” a young peasant must forsake dreams of leaving her poverty-stricken village for college after becoming pregnant outside marriage and abandoning her daughter. 12 books later, See tells how holiday letter launched career 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z She recalls how natural resources were taken from treaty territories and her frustration with poverty-stricken reservations and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Grandmother defiant to the end of pipeline protest 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Some European-born terrorists, he shows, are poverty-stricken victims of racism with a “narcissistic attachment to their own pain”, vulnerable to the sanctification of victimhood and groupthink; others are self-radicalized lone wolves. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z He aroused the ire of the Europeans by giving a Christmas bonus to pensioners and free school meals to poverty-stricken families. Greek debt crisis: an existentialist drama with no good end in sight | Larry Elliott 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Addressing the nation at the ceremony, President Trump spoke in fairly bleak terms of rusted-out factories, poverty-stricken families and crime-blighted cities, vowing to end "this American carnage" Trump's 'yuge' first week: Well, that was intense - BBC News 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The 1980 census found the district to be the most poverty-stricken in the nation. Robert Garcia Dies at 84; Bronx Congressman Undone by Scandal 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z In her words: “My teenage understanding of India was tainted by poverty-stricken, third-world imagery. How wonderful would it be if a young person learned about their culture through only positive representations?” The 20 comics to watch out for in 2017 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Finally, another announcement both antagonising and pointed: 30,000 children living in poverty-stricken areas of northern Greece will henceforth be entitled to free meals in schools. Tsipras’s spending spree may be relief to Greeks but it won’t end crisis 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z The flow of refugees into Europe from war-torn and poverty-stricken regions continued in much smaller numbers than 2015, but more people died trying to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa to Italy. AP Photos: Top Europe and Africa photos from 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z He was born in a poverty-stricken Indian village, where he and his siblings spent their days begging for food and searching for fallen coins. Dev Patel and the real familial investigator at the heart of 'Lion' 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Her early work included going door-to-door in poverty-stricken parts of Bedford, Mass., to collect data. Hillary Clinton, in first formal talk since conceding: ‘There is common ground to build upon’ 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z In this film, Dorothy, a girl from a poverty-stricken background, is blown by a tornado to a brave new world. Just like the Wizard of Oz, Donald Trump has no magic powers 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Direct Relief, which concentrates on medical aid for emergencies and poverty-stricken regions, will begin testing a new online donor site next week, as the annual year-end giving season approaches. A Charity Offers Donors More Control Over Where Their Funds Go 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Along with financial and health worries, these families also face the social stigma of raising a disabled child, which they say is even more pronounced in the poverty-stricken northeastern region of Brazil where they live. AP PHOTOS: Family portraits of babies disabled by Zika 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Low-lying areas of the capital, often the more poverty-stricken, are especially vulnerable. Haiti Braces for Catastrophe as Hurricane Matthew Makes Landfall 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z “It used to be considered sort of an invisible paraprofessional, poverty-stricken workforce,” Rolf said. SEIU pins hopes on Democrats’ victory in state Legislature 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Things have changed in even a traditional stronghold like the poverty-stricken Eighth Ward, which ex-Mayor Barry represented on the City Council until his death in 2014. Still Ruled by Democrats, But at Least They’re Not Marion Barry 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The building, which directly faces the poverty-stricken Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan, is also directly below the secret zip wire once used to smuggle injured Israeli soldiers over the green line from East to West Jerusalem. Unity gives Jerusalem a prayer: Jews, Muslims and Christians join for worship 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z It's not that issues between the extremes of a nuclear North Korea and a poverty-stricken one are entirely overlooked. What the West Misses About North Korea 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Most is shipped abroad, but some is distributed in Rosario’s villas: poverty-stricken districts on the city’s outskirts where local gangs fight an increasingly brutal turf war. A lethal location 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z A jubilant, talented child born in poverty-stricken Kherson, Polunin’s obvious talent earned him a place at London’s Royal Ballet School for training. Documentary 'Dancer' gracefully captures turmoil within Segei Polunin 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z There is likewise poverty in many parts of the world, but the most poverty-stricken areas, such as sub-Saharan Africa, don’t experience the most terrorism. Exit America’s Best and Worst 9/11 Ally 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z In the poverty-stricken Mississippi county where the two nuns were slain, many people were still mourning their loss. Friends, colleagues to remember slain Mississippi nuns 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Over nearly four decades, the shah transformed a backward, poverty-stricken country into a powerful one with the most educated workforce in the Middle East. A new look at the Shah, his fall and how it continues to shake the world 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z In Dallas, the difference between the poverty-stricken south and the more affluent north is stark. Thousands of Roaming Dogs Are Cited as Problem in Poor Areas of Dallas 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Starting last August, he progressively shut down border crossings while asserting that what he described as uneducated and poverty-stricken Colombians were flooding into Venezuela. Venezuelans Flood Into Colombian City to Buy Food and Medicine 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z The disaster began when the poverty-stricken city of nearly 100,000 residents left Detroit’s water system and started using improperly treated Flint River water in April 2014 while under state management. AP news guide: The Flint water crisis emails 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z In many ways, Sunday’s Democratic party primary in Puerto Rico perfectly encapsulates the $73bn debt crisis that is seeping into every corner of this poverty-stricken Caribbean island. Puerto Rico's Democratic primary reflects debt crisis engulfing island 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z She sent Clinton to knock on doors in poverty-stricken parts of New Bedford, Mass., and collect data. The story of Hillary Clinton’s ‘totally confusing’ relationship with her liberal mentor 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z It will now apply only to the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, a historically Native American university, and Western Carolina University, which serves the poverty-stricken Appalachian region. Branded a racist, lawmaker scales back tuition-cut proposal 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z We are getting tired of your constant whining about your poverty-stricken self. Enjoying the Mariners, wondering about Michael Bennett and Breanna Stewart: Times readers sound off 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z The 90-minute film, which is narrated by rap legend Chuck D., chronicles Haywood’s rise from a poverty-stricken Mississippi cotton field to the Basketball Hall of Fame. Spence Haywood story hits the big screen 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Last week, hundreds of protesters gathered at the bomb site in the poverty-stricken Shiite neighborhood. Under strain, Islamic State takes its battle to the streets of Baghdad 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Cleveland sits in Bolivar County at the center of the Mississippi Delta, a torpid and poverty-stricken portion of the state that hasn’t known widespread prosperity since slaves hauled cotton on plantations. Mississippi city ordered to desegregate schools 60 years after landmark ruling 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z It’s about Red Nose Day, a special day aimed at raising awareness about and money for poverty-stricken children. 5 DSU barrel racers being featured on prime time NBC show 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Almost 50 percent of the metro area’s black population qualifies as poverty-stricken, the report found — contributing an overall poverty rate of 32 percent. No water, no teachers: Behind Detroit's surge, old problems stubbornly persist 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z While some of the homeless may have mental conditions, others are merely poverty-stricken; to group them all together can be misleading. Among Travelers and Commuters, the Homeless Stop In and Stay 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Singleton says Greenetrack provides needed jobs in the poverty-stricken Greene County, comparing it to automobile plants in other areas of the state. Senate rejects Greenetrack casino bill 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Here is Leduc, a woman made feminist by experience: a fatherless, poverty-stricken childhood, a youth spent grovelling for affection and sustenance, her wartime hustle smuggling legs of lamb to rich Parisians. Violette Leduc: the great French feminist writer we need to remember 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z “They just looked like poverty-stricken vagrants, really,” said Holmes. Vietnamese boat people: living to tell the tale 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z The crowded, poverty-stricken sections of cities in Latin America are a perfect setting for Zika’s spread. Swatting the Zika carriers 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The research included nearly 450 people living in poverty-stricken areas of Baltimore. Neighborhood Rats as Depressing as Crime, Study Finds 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z The crowded, poverty-stricken sections of Central and South American cities, where uncollected trash, discarded containers and old tires are abundant, have proved a perfect setting for the disease’s spread. Zika is the latest battle in a long war between humans and mosquitoes 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The UN has more than 100,000 peacekeepers serving in some of the world’s most volatile and poverty-stricken areas. US pushing for resolution to sex abuse cases involving UN peacekeepers 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Some activists, however, say that a large number of victims of sexual violence are minors, school dropouts from poverty-stricken backgrounds and easy prey for men looking to exploit them. India police arrest Scottish man over rape allegation - BBC News 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Civil war erupted when Kiir accused his former deputy, Machar, of planning a coup, setting off a cycle of retaliatory killings that have split the poverty-stricken, landlocked country along ethnic lines. Hopes rise for South Sudan peace deal 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z The yearly appeal to international donors sought $571 million to alleviate the sufferings of Palestinians in the poverty-stricken Gaza Strip and the West Bank. World Digest: Feb. 10, 2016 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Women in most poverty-stricken countries take the brunt of everything. Joan Baez: 'The places I feel most at home are the ones in struggle' 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z An estimated 1.5 million Brazilians have caught Zika, a virus first detected in Africa in the 1947 and unknown in the Americas until it appeared in May in the poverty-stricken northeastern region of Brazil. Exclusive - Brazil says Zika virus outbreak worse than believed 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z And hunger is much less widespread in the poverty-stricken nations of India and Brazil. Myth of the middle class: Most Americans don’t even have $1,000 in savings 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Forty percent of the city’s population lives below the poverty line, making it the second most poverty-stricken city of its size in the nation, according to U.S. National Guard called in to hand out water in Flint, Mich. 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The school draws students from several poverty-stricken neighborhoods around Wynwood, located just north of downtown Miami, according to the complaint. Artists say celebrity pastor's church stole Miami murals for ads 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Zarqawi, born in the Jordanian city of Zarqa, was a petty criminal who caught religion and replaced an aimless, poverty-stricken existence with jihad. Islamic State’s Deep, Poisonous Roots 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Kern is the fourth most poverty-stricken county in the state. The County: where deputies dole out rough justice 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z As a result, the humble soybean is fomenting social unrest, as poverty-stricken farmers try to battle the government and powerful landed elite. Inside Paraguay's War Over Soy Plantations 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Selling firearms to poverty-stricken youths is not a big money-spinner for organised criminals. Young guns 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The Canadian actor hopes the film's socio-political message - Panem is a society where the poverty-stricken masses are ruled by a decadent elite - will help its young fans become more politically aware. Donald Sutherland: 'I could tell you stories but I'd never get another job' - BBC News 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z If the Republic machine actually got behind raising the national minimum age, surely many of the poverty-stricken seeking abortions might consider enlarging their families. Supreme Court to Hear Texas Abortion Law Case 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z The newcomers, mainly from Haiti, Bolivia, Senegal and other poverty-stricken countries, provided Mr Max with his subjects. No golden door 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z I guess they probably look at it like Wilkinsburg is poverty-stricken. In a disadvantaged district, a parable of contemporary American schooling 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z She herself grew up in an affluent family on the outskirts of Philadelphia — there was a fine kitchen garden and a cook — but her grandfather came from a family of poverty-stricken farmers. The Archive of Eating 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Two days after the disaster, rescue workers were still struggling to get to far-flung areas in the mountainous and poverty-stricken region. Afghanistan earthquake: rescue teams struggling to reach survivors 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z A series of recent government maneuvers in Alabama may prevent some citizens from voting across large swathes of the state, particularly in poverty-stricken Black Belt counties. 'Driving is a privilege, voting is a right': Alabama license-office cuts bite deep 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z The list includes not just big players like the United States and China, but also war-torn countries like Rwanda, tiny islands like Tuvalu and poverty-stricken nations like Bangladesh. Paris Climate Accord Aims to Speed Transition to Clean Power for All 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z She would like to do something to help people of the Navajo Nation, one of the most poverty-stricken of the major Native American tribes. LinkedIn’s Plan for World Domination 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The subtly arresting images of poverty-stricken Athens, Ohio in Matt Eich’s Carry Me Ohio also caught the judge’s eyes. 5 Photographers Share Getty Images' $50,000 Grants 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z She continued working in her vein of engagé bleak reportage, taking memorable pictures of refugees from the Spanish civil war and poverty-stricken families in north-east England. The war-hungry women written out of photographic history 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z “Haiti is the most poverty-stricken country in the Western Hemisphere.” EXCHANGE: A Joliet Franciscan reflects on road to ministry 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z "Intellectually poverty-stricken, emotionally crass and with indifferent stagecraft, the result is nowhere near the standard an international company should be aiming at", he said. Nude rape scene booed by Royal Opera House audience - BBC News 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Intellectually poverty-stricken, emotionally crass and with indifferent stagecraft, the result is nowhere near the standard an international company should be aiming at. William Tell: nudity and rape scene greeted with boos at Royal Opera House 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Apart from the mines and power stations, the coalfield is home to a handful of towns, poverty-stricken villages and some prosperous corporate “colonies”, with their own schools, sports fields and clinics. Why India is captured by carbon | David Rose 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z The key, he said, is generating new opportunities for the poor, and the first step should be to appoint a “poverty czar” to focus on poverty-stricken Americans. Martin Luther King III, Rand Paul aim to fight poverty without creating welfare state 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z But even as her business thrives, the fear of falling back to the bad old poverty-stricken days is there. The woman who liberated South Korea's housewives - BBC News 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Other highlights of the marathon broadcast, which included segments featuring Jack Black visiting poverty-stricken areas worldwide, included Coldplay's appearance as the centerpiece of a sketch film documenting the creation of "Game of Thrones: The Musical." Hollywood stars out en masse for first U.S. Red Nose Day event 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z “They’re a poverty-stricken country in so many ways, but their spirit and their heart speaks so much louder than that,” he added. Cuba Is The New Rock N' Roll Frontier 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Six other proposals included in the letter promised to improve budgetary procedures, streamline spending in public administration and alleviate a humanitarian crisis gripping more than 300,000 poverty-stricken Greeks. Greek warning: With no rescue funds, 'there could be problems' 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z About two-thirds of the world's cocoa comes from poverty-stricken West Africa. Artisanal, hand-crafted chocolate is a growing niche 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z French homegrown Islamist terrorists tend to grow up in the heaving, poverty-stricken banlieues—or suburbs—outside major French cities, and most of them are alienated from society at an early age. Simple Ideas to Counter Terrorism in France 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Last year, he won his 27th Emmy for a report about a poverty-stricken town in Paraguay, where children found salvation by playing music on instruments made from recycled garbage. Bob Simon, much-honored CBS News correspondent, dies in car crash at 73 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z “It is not too late,” said Crystal Chapman-Chevalier, vice chair of the poverty-stricken Menominee Tribe. Advocates for Kenosha casino renew plea to Walker 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z It’s trying to change the attitude of a poverty-stricken Southern state where “Thank God for Mississippi” is a familiar catchphrase. Beebe says he hopes lifting state’s ‘swagger’ is his legacy 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z Still, investors remain suspicious of his new $14 billion stimulus plan, which includes restoring minimum wages and Christmas bonuses, creating 300,000 new jobs and offering free electricity to hundreds of thousands of poverty-stricken Greeks. Greece to hold early elections in challenge to EU austerity plan 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z China rejects such criticism, saying its rule ended serfdom in Tibet and brought development to a backward, poverty-stricken region. China police fire on Tibetans after self-immolations: rights group 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Other Caribbean countries that have decent relations with the U.S. include poverty-stricken Haiti and the Dominican Republic. A ‘Brave’ Move by Obama Removes a Wedge in Relations With Latin America 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z The order was aimed at helping poverty-stricken residents. Islamic State imposes a reign of fear in Iraqi hospitals Barry first served as city councilman of Ward 8 -- among the most poverty-stricken areas of Washington -- for a brief stint during the 1970s. Marion Barry dies at 78: 'I may not be perfect, but I'm perfect for Washington' 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z Plainly, rising wages during their working years would alleviate at least some of the threat of a poverty-stricken retirement. The hard truth about Americans' retirement options 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z The Interior Department runs the Bureau of Indian Education, which oversees more than 180 schools for about 41,000 students primarily on reservations in remote and poverty-stricken places. Digest Other Caribbean countries that have decent relations with the U.S. include poverty-stricken Haiti and the Dominican Republic. A ‘Brave’ Move by Obama Removes a Wedge in Relations With Latin America 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z The Interior Department runs the Bureau of Indian Education, which oversees more than 180 schools for about 41,000 students primarily on reservations in some of the more remote and poverty-stricken places in America. GAO: Oversight needed of Native American schools 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z The poverty-stricken south-Asian state relies heavily on tourism revenues from climbing and trekking. Nepal rescuers find 11 more bodies, taking death toll to at least 43 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z “I am a well-to-do person,” he said, “but I live in a poverty-stricken area.” The Beggars of Lakewood 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z South Asia remains a poverty-stricken, conflict-ridden region that harbours, among other things, great violence against women and children. Can Nobel Peace Prizes Bring Peace To South Asia? 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Sometimes the poverty-stricken parents preferred their children to be working than in school. Peace Prize recipient Kailash Satyarthi has long campaigned against child labor Recently, a Japanese firm offered a Silicon Valley group of poverty-stricken whiz kids $400,000 for their state-of-the-art technology. The Secret to Negotiating with Tigers in Hong Kong and the Pacific Rim 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z “They say we live in a poverty-stricken area. We don’t have to act like we live in no ghetto. I don’t know where the ghetto is.” Guardian of a Brooklyn Housing Project 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z It often requires that the school be near middle-class neighborhoods, which might conflict with many urban charter educators’ desire to fill their schools with minority kids in poverty-stricken areas that need them the most. Big charter change seen in 2 D.C. schools The complex was intended to be a modern, vibrant community to replace the old poverty-stricken neighborhoods of the poor. How Ferguson Went From Middle Class to Poor in a Generation 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Everyone remembers abject, poverty-stricken and war-ravaged Vienna in his The Third Man. The top 10 … cities on film 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z American forces did earn good will among Nigerians for humanitarian efforts in the late 2000s, building wells and other infrastructure in poverty-stricken regions. Nigeria Hit by Abuse Accusations as It Hunts Boko Haram 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Geological Service, toppled at least 12,000 homes in the poverty-stricken region of Yunnan province where it struck. Rescue Efforts Underway After Deadly Earthquake in Southwest China 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z The immediate worst-case scenario would be for the disease to take hold in Lagos – crowded, poverty-stricken in many areas, and at times chaotic, posing the risk it could spread throughout Africa’s most populous country. Ebola is outstripping control efforts, top WHO official warns 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Zhang Chunxian, the region's Communist Party boss, said poverty-stricken southern Xinjiang, the epicentre of this week's unrest, was the key to the "chessboard". Imam's killing in China may be aimed at making Muslim Uighurs choose sides 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z For decades, Myanmar’s poverty-stricken economy was largely state-controlled and disconnected from the outside world. In Myanmar, Democracy’s Euphoria Losing Its Glow 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z A reflection on the hardships faced by poverty-stricken southern workers who travelled north in search of work and fortune, Parton routinely dedicates the song to the memory of her father. Dolly Parton: 10 of the best 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z The vast, poverty-stricken central African state aims to raise oil output from just 25,000 barrels per day by exploiting reserves under its soil in the east and offshore in the west. Soco agrees to suspend oil exploration in Congo's protected park 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z “It was isolated and poverty-stricken, and there was a sense of hopelessness among some of the people who lived there,” Purdon said in an interview. Attorney General Eric Holder talks with Native American teenage boys in North Dakota The existence of “bank deserts” in poverty-stricken communities presents a huge opportunity for entrepreneurs and organizations willing to meet the needs of the millions of the unbanked and underbanked Americans through financial innovations. Fighting Financial Exclusion: How To Serve 88 Million Americans Who Have No Bank 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The report by six human rights groups came amid national outrage over the case of the two cousins, whose bodies were found hanging from a mango tree last week in the poverty-stricken district of Budaun. Indian rights groups cite discrimination in deadly rape case 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z And when you’re among the newly minted poverty-stricken, those Americans who were making ends meet prior to the recession, it really hurts because Washington can’t seem to get out of your way. SIMMONS: It’s time to reassess anti-poverty policy 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z His backdrop was the poverty-stricken, and often violent world of his Colombian home where democracy never really found roots. Obituary: Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2014-04-17T20:10:35Z Not only are African-American and Hispanic people poverty-stricken comparatively speaking, but they suffer the plight of being incarcerated much more than other people. “America as the No. 1 warmonger”: President Jimmy Carter talks to Salon about race, cable news, “slut-shaming” and more 2014-04-10T12:30:00Z He was celebrated with a gala screening of his 1993 film Raining Stones, about a poverty-stricken suburban family. Chinese film wins at Berlin festival 2014-02-15T20:34:44Z Those include Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, countries that are largely poverty-stricken. Kazakhstan's Prez Wants to Change the Nation's Name 2014-02-07T18:35:27Z Where are the mega gifts to prevent disease, promote sustainability and fund small businesses in poverty-stricken regions? Why Big Donors Don’t Give to Big Causes 2014-01-20T15:45:47Z Last Thursday, President Obama launched the “Promise Zones” initiative, a comprehensive federal plan intended to target and raise up poverty-stricken areas. Holder and Donovan join New York police commissioner to discuss collaboration 2014-01-16T23:13:24Z The drama depicted the poverty-stricken projects in Baltimore and documented the drug war between worn-out cops and the city’s African-American residents. Obama’s TV Picks: Anything Edgy, With Hints of Reality 2013-12-30T01:31:42Z There are the poverty-stricken slums of Eastern Europe and the shanty camps springing up in France and Spain. Challenging stereotypes: Teesside's new Roma 2013-12-02T04:07:11Z In the story, the poverty-stricken people of Varos are kept entertained by screenings of public torture. How did Doctor Who reflect the news? 2013-11-22T01:38:38Z She and Alexander discuss how embarrassing it is that wealthier EU countries like Britain regard Bulgaria simplistically as a poverty-stricken haven of corruption. Bulgarians determined to overthrow system 2013-11-21T08:19:20Z The region is one of the most poverty-stricken in Iran. Iran Sunni group claims border raid 2013-10-27T08:34:49Z I rode on one of the trainloads of copper that go straight from foreign-owned mines, to the border, and on to the Far East, rumbling past shanty towns of displaced, poverty-stricken Congolese. Too rich for its own good 2013-10-09T00:48:24Z Andersen story; generations of Chinese have grown up with his tales, and Andersen resonates with them as a real proletariat: a poverty-stricken, hard-working man from the slums who persevered to achieve ultimate success. China Loves the Little Mermaid 2013-08-25T08:45:00Z Yet with its bleak depiction of life in a poverty-stricken East Texas burg, this isn’t the sort of picture that draws much of an audience. Why Hollywood Wants NC-17 to Become More Accepted 2013-08-23T09:57:28Z The shortage of brides in villages and towns of Haryana and Punjab is often met by these 'on sale' poverty-stricken women, it adds. Indian media: China border dispute 2013-07-10T07:18:29Z Since there are no banks in some villages, this money has been extremely helpful for poverty-stricken women and their families, Robinette said. Bringing Light to the Heart of Darkness 2013-06-18T08:45:00Z Almost none of the 4- and 5-year-olds attending the Academy of St. Benedict the African, a parochial school here in the poverty-stricken Englewood neighborhood, are Catholic. Private Preschools See More Public Funds as Classes Grow 2013-06-14T02:56:51Z He grew up among the party elite and then watched his father purged from power before the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, when Xi himself spent years in the poverty-stricken countryside before going to university. Chinese President Xi Jinping 2013-06-04T23:26:48Z The young star of The Rocket, Sitthiphon Disamoe, stars as Aholo - a boy who enters a to help save his poverty-stricken family who have been uprooted for the construction of a dam. Australian film wins Tribeca prize 2013-04-26T09:12:32Z Though the confirmed death toll was put at 119 on Wednesday evening, officials in the poverty-stricken south Asian country said it was certain to rise substantially, taking the final count into the hundreds. Bangladesh building collapse: factories supplied shops in west 2013-04-24T19:54:32Z Thousands of Africans each year attempt do-or-die voyages to Europe, a symbol of hope in a poverty-stricken region. Body found in landing gear of plane at Paris airport 2013-04-08T23:28:19Z King was more concerned with his planned “camp-in” of poverty-stricken Southern Negroes in the nation’s capital, planned for April 22. Looking Back at TIME: 45 Years After the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 2013-04-05T00:50:23Z However, El Mahroug admitted to having made this up, saying she had created a "parallel life" as she tried to imagine a different life from the poverty-stricken world in which she grew up. Nightclub dancer "Ruby" stands up for Berlusconi outside court 2013-04-04T12:33:54Z It is practised mostly in poverty-stricken areas of developing countries. How small-scale mining could offer sustainable livelihoods 2013-03-07T13:58:21Z Since taking the presidency in 1999, Mr. Chávez reshaped his country, using higher oil prices to launch spending programs like free health care in the poverty-stricken barrios around the country. With Chávez Death, Country Faces Uncertainty 2013-03-05T22:13:57Z For three decades after that, it was vacant, as were many of the abandoned houses in the poverty-stricken streets nearby. Youngstown: Mecca of 3-D Printing? Not Yet 2013-02-26T17:45:00Z It's nice, isn't it, that the poverty-stricken get to play a role in RBS's global HR strategy. Fight poverty with RBS? Not on your Nelly 2013-02-10T00:10:01Z Theirs are rich pickings, much in demand as winter envelopes the villages and towns of an increasingly poverty-stricken . Greeks turn to the forests for fuel as winter nears 2012-11-28T21:03:31Z He grew up among the party elite and then watched his father purged from power before the Cultural Revolution, when Xi himself spent years in the poverty-stricken countryside before scrambling to university and then power. China heir apparent Xi raised by elite, steeled by turmoil 2012-11-07T18:14:13Z Much of the hair on sale comes from small agents who tour villages in India, China, and eastern Europe, offering poverty-stricken women small payments to part with their hair. The hair trade's dirty secret 2012-10-28T20:00:01Z Audley Harrison will be remembered as a man rich in talent but poverty-stricken in the mettle needed to flourish as a professional prize-fighter. Price defeat is final knockout blow for Harrison 2012-10-16T11:07:34Z A stigma is associated with international aid, and European countries such as Spain don’t want to be lumped in with poverty-stricken developing nations. Austerity by Any Other Name Is Still Bitter 2012-10-10T17:50:20Z An interesting fact about family homelessness: before the early-1980s, it did not exist in America, at least not as an endemic, multi-generational problem afflicting millions of poverty-stricken adults and kids. We’re a country that let’s kids go homeless 2012-07-19T18:37:00Z Each dilapidated house will be given 7,500 yuan on average, while 130,000 poverty-stricken rural households located in the border areas will be granted another 2,500 yuan in subsidies each. China to invest $5 billion to renovate rural houses: Xinhua 2012-07-14T10:33:16Z People continue to arrive from Peru's poverty-stricken highlands to seek their fortune. Peru's lawless gold rush 2012-07-11T09:52:37Z "You go into some of these areas, man, at-risk areas, poverty-stricken areas, and there's not a lot of God there," he said. Understanding Brandon Marshall 2012-06-24T00:44:00Z Businesses of all types are springing up in the poverty-stricken West African country of Liberia, writes the Today programme's Sarah Montague. Liberia's visionary entrepreneurs 2012-06-21T06:04:21Z Another distinct theme in the songs arises from the massive flows of migration from the poverty-stricken Bhojpur region to big cities. India Ink: Colloquial Music Reflects Changes in Rural Indian Romance 2012-06-20T05:47:36Z Africa is a rich continent with talented footballers and that includes my country Foxi, who scored both goals against Botswana, is one of several players based outside the poverty-stricken country. Wild Cats on the prowl 2012-06-08T13:29:38Z Malawi's new president, Joyce Banda, is scrapping her luxury presidential jet as part of a series of cost-cutting measures to help the poverty-stricken country. VIDEO: Malawi's new president cuts costs 2012-06-03T00:50:46Z Both are important donors and trade partners for Nepal, a poverty-stricken country dependent on aid and tourism. Nepal faces fresh turmoil after charter deadline missed 2012-05-27T19:43:25Z She said she was more concerned about poverty-stricken children in sub-Saharan Africa than Greeks hit by the economic crisis. Lagarde tax jibe angers Greeks 2012-05-27T15:24:36Z Sylvia, much as she loved her mother, would have been very glad to leave the house at Lille, for it seemed, when she saw it again, poverty-stricken and pinched. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z The father dying when the child was little over a year old, he was brought up amidst poverty-stricken conditions in the village of Hausen in the Wiesental, where he received his earliest education. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z "He looks exceedingly poverty-stricken," wrote Sophie of another Cavalier, "and I fear that Rupert will soon do the same, judging by his m�nage." Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z I'm too poverty-stricken to turn up my nose at anything. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z He is thrown into prison, and later becomes blind and poverty-stricken. The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story 2012-04-11T02:00:32.697Z Ireland, if Mrs. Meares was to be believed, consisted of one large poverty-stricken royal family, which must have cheapened the alliance for Mr. Meares. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Many human beings, ailing, miserable, poverty-stricken, victims of misfortune or suppliants of fate, have found in a window their salvation. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z In short the fleet represented all the funds which the poverty-stricken Royalists could gather together, and for the next three years the exiled Court was supported by the exertions of Rupert. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z We might, perhaps, have expected that the percentage of attendance would have decreased because of the difficulty of enforcing it on the children of poverty-stricken parents. Boy Labour and Apprenticeship 2012-03-30T02:00:18.807Z Throughout this thinly-peopled and poverty-stricken region, there was neither law nor government. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z When charters open in their own privately financed, state-of-the-art buildings in poverty-stricken neighborhoods where they’re welcomed by the community, there may be reasons to celebrate. SchoolBook: Why Some Parents Resent the Success Charter Schools 2012-03-19T12:24:35Z It is a poverty-stricken Ona family that has not enough dogs to cover it out of sight. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z It has lost its royalty of aspect, and for all one sees in passing by the discoloured walls and shuttered windows it might be any poverty-stricken crowded palazzo in Naples. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Slyne sat down on the sofa opposite him, not even condescending to glance, in response to that invitation, round the squalid, poverty-stricken little cabin. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z These though their civilization be still incomplete, have to a great extent under the agencies that have here been examined, ceased to be manifestly poverty-stricken or repulsively hideous. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z We found only one person in the garret, which was as miserable and poverty-stricken as a room could be; and he rose and faced us with an exclamation of anger. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z True, we live in the midst of a very difficult period of economic depression—exhausted, poverty-stricken, and hungry. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z Here and there, of course, are some of little promise, who in a poverty-stricken condition accept almost any bribe offered them by political bosses, but fortunately this number is known to be rapidly decreasing. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z It was as well perhaps; for what was there at Villeneuve, what had they in that poverty-stricken home of such a value as to outweigh the wrath of Vlaye? The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z The diseases are not unusual for a poverty-stricken area: diabetes, hypertension, stress. Greeks losing belief in the state 2012-02-17T13:49:25Z The lack of economy of such poverty-stricken operation would have shocked any business man, would have caused apoplexy to an "efficiency expert." Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Odd as it may seem, Graham, I have been singularly poverty-stricken in that respect. The Wreckers 2012-02-14T03:00:26.817Z Dress and board could be cut down to the same plain, poverty-stricken scale. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Feb 3, 1872 2012-02-10T03:00:16.947Z That fate—in the poverty-stricken condition of the English repertory—would mean profit indeed, and an income to my descendants. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z The next morning, however, the postman, who very seldom entered that poverty-stricken street, brought the man a letter from a former fellow-workman who had heard of his ill-health and loss of work. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z She who raved upon the bed of straw in the heart of the most poverty-stricken quarter of Babylon—from what things was she descended? Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Genius has a right to a poverty-stricken—even to a sordid, boyhood. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z In three days twenty-five competitors had entered for the proposed walk to Brighton, and the House found itself not so poverty-stricken but that prize-money to the extent of £35, for three silver cups, was subscribed. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z What hope had their poverty-stricken little state in a struggle against such numbers and such resources as now were gathering to conquer it? The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo 2012-01-19T03:00:22.827Z Urquhart was not quite so poverty-stricken as this; for he seems to have observed examples of mental infirmity, illustrations of which he might doubtless have found nearer home. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z They were called upon to forget all former partisanship and to unite in one common cause, the resurrection of the poverty-stricken fatherland. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z It is noticeable that in such beauty-spots as these are generally to be found poverty-stricken cabins, the homes of small fishermen and hunters; while the more generous farm-houses seek the fertile but prosaic openings. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z The father, we are told, poverty-stricken and greedy of gain, was perpetually urging his boy to exertion with the phrase, “Luca, f� presto.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z He hires a caregiver named Driss, who just did six months in jail for a jewelry-store stickup, and who hails from the bleak poverty-stricken suburbs of Paris. Multimillionaire Smokes Pot With Thief in French Movie: Review 2012-01-09T01:23:09Z The streets are everywhere narrow and filthy, the houses low and poverty-stricken in appearance; even upon their roofs the luxuriance of tropical vegetation bursts forth! Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z The interior was no less poverty-stricken than the exterior. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z The dwellings of the Hottentots lie scattered among the233 rising grounds in the neighbourhood, and with their poverty-stricken aspect impart a somewhat melancholy impression. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z To train and teach them is a task which sorely tries the patience of the super-master, and their lazy, poverty-stricken, and generally not too cleanly aspect is provocative of contempt and dislike amongst the actors. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z In these poverty-stricken islanders the men of Notho were now to recognize the elder branch of their family. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Once Tamil Nadu’s economy strengthened, migrants began arriving from poverty-stricken states in central India. India's Way: In Indian Slum, Misery, Work, Politics and Hope 2011-12-29T03:30:03Z Where in days of yore a hundred thousand human beings bustled to and fro, there are at present dwelling but a couple of thousand wretched, poverty-stricken Portuguese and Javanese. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z Others argued that the fact that Ashok Khade, the main businessman in the article, was able to transform himself from poverty-stricken child to millionaire businessman was inspiring proof that the system is improving. India Ink: Discussion on Caste, Heated as Always 2011-12-26T16:05:10Z Any circumstances drawing together a crowd at Windsor, whether the presence of royalty, the attractions of the military parade, or of the promenade, did not fail to draw forth Dinely from his poverty-stricken home. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z A lot of children are dependent on poverty-stricken single moms. Another face of the U.S. recession: homeless children 2011-12-23T19:07:55Z Specha said it's a struggle for some interns, only three months after they've begun to break away from an isolated existence in poverty-stricken neighborhoods, to suddenly find themselves immersed in refined opulence. Cafe helps Saints' Strief satisfy hunger to help 2011-12-22T22:47:08Z The social condition of the Chinese silk-spinner is not less deplorable and poverty-stricken than that of the workmen of Europe, who are similarly engaged in the preparation of this costly article of luxury. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z It manufactures the equipment at this facility, legacy of a defunct U.S. tax break designed to encourage investment on the poverty-stricken island. Corporate America Puerto Rico Tax Break Shifts to Cayman Islands 2011-12-20T11:17:52Z A striking story of the unknown resources and trials of the poverty-stricken is the following, a favourite one with that capital raconteur, the late Julian Young. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z It had almost a luxurious look, in striking contrast with the other contents of that poor chamber; but the most poverty-stricken mother always finds a way to adorn her child's cradle. Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z Martin's modern fantasy, "A Game of Thrones," and Jeannette Walls' story about her unconventional, poverty-stricken upbringing, "The Glass Castle: A Memoir." Electronic toys, video games move up list of most-scanned holiday products 2011-12-07T15:15:00Z “He went to Mexico in the poverty-stricken areas and worked with the kids and things like that,” Mr. Sandusky said of the young man. At Center of Penn State Scandal, Jerry Sandusky Tells His Own Story 2011-12-03T07:50:40Z The pride of the poverty-stricken Irish gentleman was touched; his shame overcame his anger, and, foolish fellow! he blushed for that of which he had no need to be ashamed. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z This was the only substantial result to our poverty-stricken Beethoven of the attachment professed by the whole of the gay throng! Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) 2011-11-14T03:00:21.027Z These poverty-stricken brethren from the Vaterland often called upon us to assist them in building houses for them. A Tale of the Kloster A Romance of the German Mystics at the Cocalico 2011-11-11T03:00:32.153Z The rest of his life he spent poverty-stricken in Paris. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z In the faded memory of Scef, preserved in the saga of the Lower Rhine and of the Netherlands, there comes to a poverty-stricken people a boat in which there lies a sleeping youth. Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland 2011-10-31T02:00:30.820Z Perhaps if the girls had explained why they wanted the things, their relatives would have been more generous; but girllike, the four poverty-stricken young housekeepers made a deep mystery of their dinner plan. Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z The mention of women in emerging economies often evokes a picture of oppressed and poverty-stricken victims, relegated to the sidelines of male-dominated cultures. Is a Woman in Brazil Better Off than a Woman in the U.S.? 2011-10-24T10:00:38Z Tunisia, too, faces obstacles, including sharpening rifts between Islamist and more-secular oriented parties, between poverty-stricken rural dwellers in the country's interior and a coastal elite, and between old regime holdovers and upstart political forces. Tunisia Vote Stands as Test 2011-10-22T01:03:15Z All of which creates a huge incentive for companies that can find ways to serve ever growing numbers of highly empowered, nominally poverty-stricken people. Peter Diamandis On Why Businesses Should Be Optimistic About The Future 2011-10-14T00:39:31Z She had bared her poverty-stricken life to his gaze, and he had not taken advantage of it. The Enchanted Barn 2011-10-13T02:00:50.933Z But the show business cannot be much of a success in this Black Country, for these caravanites look poverty-stricken. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z That as for Amlwch, it was a poor poverty-stricken place; the inn a shabby affair, the master a very so-so individual, and the boots a fellow without either wit or literature. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z Korir is helping to build a hospital in his poverty-stricken village, where his younger brother died from a snake bite. Strong field headlines Chicago Marathon 2011-10-07T19:12:09Z It was a poverty-stricken looking place, and as they neared the house there was no sign of any stock about. Luck at the Diamond Fields 2011-10-06T02:00:43.067Z An economic benefit resulted when, tiny, poverty-stricken fishing hamlets became famous through the patronage of the wealthy in search of health as well as pleasure. Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States 2011-10-03T02:00:33.640Z It had a mean, dilapidated air; the few inhabitants she saw slowly moving about looked poverty-stricken and furtive. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z The things I saw were wild, savage, poverty-stricken; but they were free. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z No doubt it will interest you, as strangers, to see so many very wise and poverty-stricken scholars and philosophers eating their black broth.” The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z Most of this country's old-time gamesters have died, as you know, very poor, or, worse, poverty-stricken. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z The girl to whom Donne wrote so gaily fifteen years before, is now a widow, and the poverty-stricken student of 1609 has become the great Dean of Saint Paul’s. Letters to Severall Persons of Honour 2011-09-12T02:00:24.913Z At noon they reached a cluster of poverty-stricken mud houses, and Gomez called one of the ragged, half-breed peons. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z The trading class in my country is wretchedly ill-off; just poverty-stricken. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z She was struck on her arrival by the desperately poverty-stricken look of the country. Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 2011-09-09T02:01:02.147Z They were both talking in their own language, a language at once so forcible and flowery, that all attempts to render it into English ends but in a poverty-stricken paraphrase. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z Health care in the poverty-stricken West African nation is inadequate and difficult to access in rural areas, and clinics suffer routine drugs shortages, the human rights group said in a report. Sierra Leone women denied free health service: Amnesty 2011-09-06T15:44:06Z The black paint was scarred and peeling higher up, the white deckhouses and boats had grown dingy, and there was about her a poverty-stricken look. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z Especially was this so at the “poverty-stricken end,” as Josephine Morse called her section of the street. The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize 2011-09-05T02:00:21.083Z Sensitive is not strictly defined but loosely means photos of the military or any image casting the country in a bad or poverty-stricken light. Insight: Talk of succession off limits in secretive N. Korea 2011-09-04T02:46:51Z This is a modern day ghost town in already poverty-stricken North Korea, even though it is funded by wealthy neighbor and rival South Korea. North Korea ghost town reflects deeper woes as it woos Chinese 2011-09-01T02:53:02Z Often in the holidays he had accompanied relations on calls to rectories and vicarages which were as poverty-stricken, as full of self-respecting economy, as was this house. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z Many of these poverty-stricken ones are the psychological windfalls of society. Insanity Its Causes and Prevention 2011-08-29T02:01:05.400Z THE poor father, whom Judith Hart had so cruelly abandoned, sat alone in the old house, patient in his broken-heartedness and more poverty-stricken than ever. Norston's Rest 2011-08-24T02:00:23.833Z It was the largest house in the place, and yet seemed the most poverty-stricken. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z Two little poverty-stricken waifs had somehow changed his thoughts, his life. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z Do you think I should care for a recipe to make old fowls tender if I were not in very truth a most poverty-stricken person?” A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z In an earnest 5 endeavor to bring sunshine to the former’s poverty-stricken lot she had thereby involved herself in a series of school-girl difficulties, which followed her throughout the year. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z And in the third act we were taken back to the home of his broken-hearted parents; and we witnessed the Prodigal's return, poverty-stricken, disenchanted, and reformed. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Marese desired no vengeance upon a poverty-stricken youth whose brains were not very clear. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z In urging the addition of new words to our present poverty-stricken stock I am far from suggesting that we should seek out strange, technical or inflated expressions, which do not appear in ordinary conversation. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Why was it that this poverty-stricken little person took all the wind out of her sails? Molly Brown's Junior Days 2011-07-14T02:00:11.180Z The Warners’ home was even more poverty-stricken than the little gray house in which Constance Stevens had once lived. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z Syria's protests started in poverty-stricken rural provinces, where Internet usage is low. Social Media: a double-edged sword in Syria 2011-07-13T14:26:14Z Jawf lies along Yemen's northern border with oil giant Saudi Arabia, which fears that unrest in its poverty-stricken southern neighbor could spill over and create a major security threat. Factional fighting brings Yemen unrest nearer Saudi 2011-07-13T00:11:36Z But I saw no slums in S. Paulo, and nowhere the depressing contrast between ostentatious luxury and poverty-stricken squalor which is the blot on so many European cities. A New Medley of Memories 2011-07-12T02:00:37.147Z The place was a poor kind of cookshop, the staples of which were penny bowls of broth and tea for the poverty-stricken dock labourers, with twopenny plates of potato-pie for the better-off. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z But, for all its external picturesqueness, an exploration of the interior of this abode would reveal a very poverty-stricken state of things. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be visiting Inner-City Arts, a nonprofit academy that gives children from poverty-stricken neighborhoods free classes in visual and performing arts. Royal couple to see both sides of LA, from highfalutin to high poverty, in Skid Row visit 2011-07-05T20:17:53Z Well, first of all, someone poverty-stricken could live in the West Village. City Room: Nothing Gets Between Fran Lebowitz and Her Checker 2011-06-27T21:27:31Z They are neither incredibly poverty-stricken nor involved in tribal warfare. Protests Aside, Yemen?s Leader Has His Followers 2011-06-21T00:29:41Z As a result, Spain was filled, in a few years, with a poverty-stricken and starving clergy, and ruined churches and mouldering abbeys were to be seen on all sides. The Friars in the Philippines 2011-06-17T02:00:20.100Z Here she was, anyhow, beneath “Gipsy Steve’s” poverty-stricken and highly disreputable roof, and the neighbours looked at her askance, as in duty bound. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z Everything remaining gave the apartment a stern and poverty-stricken air. Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam 2011-06-14T02:00:23.757Z Very happy, dear friends, notwithstanding the poverty-stricken shifts which they were at to keep the wolf from the door. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z For the same reasons Mexicans cut American lawns and Hondurans clean American hotel rooms, embassy guards come from poverty-stricken countries and get paid accordingly -- about $600 a month. What withdrawal from Iraq? 2011-06-07T17:45:00Z I am really not so very poverty-stricken and I was never a servant of Miss Archer’s. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough directed their attention to the amelioration of the lot of the poverty-stricken peasantry, and they endeavoured also to aid the trade of Ireland. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z LAWA, Thailand — The villagers in this poverty-stricken farming community are passionate about their food, especially the traditional varieties of fermented fish that one fan describes as tasting like heaven but smelling like hell. Fish delicacy Thai villagers relish can be deadly 2011-05-21T02:15:37Z And yet we are discontented and feel ourselves misused because we happen to be a little poverty-stricken now and then, and it is hard work to find the plums in our pudding! Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z To regard it as poverty-stricken would merely show lack of perception. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z Its appearance is at present as poverty-stricken, in comparison with most of its well-dressed companions, as six weeks hence it will be rich, full, and umbrageous. Mirror of the Months 2011-05-21T02:00:10.227Z In every thicket round which Firmian had wandered in his poverty-stricken, miserable winter-autumn, he saw the cast-off skins of the snakes sticking, which in former days had twined themselves about his feet. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z At the moment, land-grabbing foreigners seem to be creating islands for themselves, cut off from the poverty-stricken countryside. The surge in land deals: When others are grabbing their land 2011-05-05T10:58:31Z He threw aside the only success he had ever achieved, which was due to the opulent siren, Mrs. Magill, and fell back to his old shabby independence, with a poverty-stricken little wife to share it. True and Other Stories 2011-04-26T02:00:27.117Z I again at length met her, reduced to great distress, supported, I believe, by her co-religionists; but so poverty-stricken were they that they could afford her but the common necessaries of life. Jovinian A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome 2011-04-21T02:00:52.107Z It makes the rest of the architecture look poverty-stricken, instead of sublime; and yet it is never enjoyed itself. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z Many of these had money to waste in gambling and drunkenness, but few had any compassion for their poverty-stricken fellow-prisoners. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z The least reflective of mortals cannot pass through a dreary and poverty-stricken district without imbibing some of the melancholy which broods over the place. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z Everything was absurd, laughable, and poverty-stricken to his eyes; that is to say, Pauperism was so apparent on all sides, the whole business of life seemed to be carried on by make-shifts. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z The problem is not confined to the poverty-stricken compounds. Up in smoke 2011-03-28T07:10:42Z There, by his side—poverty-stricken almost to rags, yet dark and comely as the summer's night—stood the woman whom years ago he had made his wife! At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z The shrubbery was more luxuriant, the trees finer and more abundant, than we had ever seen,—everything on our path was beautiful and gracious save the humanity, which was wretched and poverty-stricken in the extreme. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z Poor little beggar, he had a hard time of it—he was as poverty-stricken as Job most of the time.” Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z The word seems to have been first used in the early ’eighties, and there is a reference in the Daily News of 1887 to “a poverty-stricken article called flannelette.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z In all Austria, no man has a greater talent for representing Polish Jews, poverty-stricken Czechs, drunken valets, provincials of all kinds. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z If the poor were not as big hypocrites as the rich, they would drive the richly-dressed worshipers out of the church dedicated to the poverty-stricken Nazarene, who has been elected to the office of savior. Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays 2011-03-12T03:00:23.783Z Why is the north energetic and prosperous, while the south is lazy and poverty-stricken? The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z The air was no longer fragrant, and she found herself in a narrow, poverty-stricken alley running between rows of tall, evil-looking, and ruinous houses, in which the windows showed like deep, hollow eyes. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z And the rent was low, because the great majority of those who could afford such a house would never deign to exist in a quarter so poverty-stricken and unfashionable. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z I never was in such a miserable, poverty-stricken hole. The Girl at Central 2011-03-08T03:00:37.413Z He was in his late thirties, but the ordeals of a poverty-stricken boyhood and youth had made him look ten years older than he was. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z The poverty-stricken fields of New England are the necessary consequence of the luxurious expenditure in her cities. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z How poverty-stricken it all looked, in almost ridiculous--no, in positively pathetic--contrast with the young creature who in spite of her awkwardness had a regal air. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z Before him there was only the smoky, noisy, poverty-stricken town, with hideous factory chimneys blackening the air, and three tall spires rising from amongst the crowded roofs high up into the clearer sky. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z How poverty-stricken, how sad was his whole inner life, his feelings, his thoughts, to those to which she had recently accustomed herself! Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z Afghan women living within their compounds in Helmand are barely visible to the outside world After decades of conflict in Afghanistan, there are almost two million widows leading secluded, poverty-stricken lives. Wooing widows 2011-02-27T01:39:13Z This early work is grim as an iron-bound coast; yet the affairs of the honest, brave, and poverty-stricken captain, Belgarde, provide a lighter element, and the moralizing of the pert page in III., Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z In Sitra, a poverty-stricken Shiite area of 150,000 people outside Manama, tens of thousands gathered to bury three men killed in clashes early Thursday. Protests Swell at Bahrain Funerals 2011-02-18T12:14:42Z Let them have their rocky, poverty-stricken lan'; and to think of them now passin' laws that we'll be hanged "without benefit of clergy;" them are the words, aren't they? if we dare to go back. Roger Davis, Loyalist 2011-02-17T03:00:22.690Z Very picturesque if viewed from the sea but painfully poverty-stricken to the sight when near, is a quarter closely adjoining Imabari on the north. A Japanese Boy 2011-02-14T03:00:37.363Z The offer of talks, along with other concessions, was his boldest gambit yet to stave off turmoil in Yemen and avert a showdown with protesters in the poverty-stricken state. Yemeni protesters march on palace 2011-02-13T12:12:51Z The old-time cathedral of St. Siffrein was plainly not of the poverty-stricken class, as evinced by the various accessories and details of ornamentation mentioned above. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z Your poverty-stricken condition is a standing disgrace to a country that boasts of its high state of civilization and calls itself Christian. From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography 2011-02-06T03:01:01.497Z A shadow flitted across Sally’s delicate face; quick tears for the dead father and the ill, poverty-stricken mother filmed her blue eyes. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z What a poor-spirited, broken thing you have become, calmly permitting one daughter to go upon the public stage, and giving the other to the first poverty-stricken applicant that asks for her! A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, founder of Scottish-based charity Mary's Meals, which provides food and education for poverty-stricken children and communities across Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe, was also nominated for the award. Norgrove wins humanitarian award 2011-01-22T22:59:37Z During the Revolution the cathedral suffered much despoliation, as was usual, and only came through the trial in a somewhat imperfect and poverty-stricken condition. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z It was an enormous sum for poverty-stricken officers like us—more than two months' pay! Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z It is true that sweating in this country is in large part due to an ignorant, unorganized, and poverty-stricken class of immigrants. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z Nature never counts the cost, never hoards her treasures, but pours them out, to live or die as the case may be, with a profusion which makes the human by-stander—economical, poverty-stricken man—stand aghast. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z I fancy the old lady has a mistaken idea that he's poverty-stricken. Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy 2011-01-13T03:01:14.887Z In all great manufacturing towns the labouring class, with very few exceptions, is poverty-stricken and starving. The Lonely House 2011-01-13T03:01:04.920Z And both are bad, not because they are Negroes or Italians, but because they are ignorant, neglected, poverty-stricken. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z In consequence, enterprise had died, property had depreciated, and the entire place had become poverty-stricken. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z "You speak as if you were poverty-stricken," smiled Joan, thinking of the great Carmichael house, with its walled court and double galleries and outbuildings sufficient to house a retinue of servants. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z Money and education had raised him to their level, and therefore far above schoolmasters and curates, or any such poverty-stricken members of society. Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles 2011-01-01T03:00:27.980Z A yellow sheen hiding the poverty-stricken sun glimmered behind the ragged birch boughs. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Namely, that the country under Mao and after belonged to the 20th-century totalitarian mainstream — that it was a poverty-stricken police state and not a viable alternative to Western ways. Letter From America: A Bridge to a Love for Democracy 2010-12-29T16:20:10Z Madeline had spoken of the gradual decay of High Barn, but Carrados was hardly prepared for the poverty-stricken desolation which Parkinson described as they approached the homestead on the following afternoon. Max Carrados 2010-12-24T03:00:32.117Z It lived before us, in a setting devoid of grandeur, a setting which seemed to us very lowly, very poverty-stricken. The Three Eyes 2010-12-20T17:11:46.430Z Police reports obtained from the local police department further corroborate SM's recollection of these events and paint a picture of an individual who lives in a poverty-stricken area replete with crime, drugs, and danger. Where Does Fear Come From? 2010-12-03T21:30:00Z One day, on returning from the Grosser Garten by way of side streets, Lilly stood still in front of a poverty-stricken little provision shop. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z One important note: If not for the social welfare net, the plight of the poverty-stricken would be much worse. The United States of income inequality 2010-09-28T18:29:00Z |
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