10 sentences with “poverty”

The lack of employment has increased poverty.

Chronic poverty affects many regions of the country.

The famous painter Van Gogh had a sad and brief life. Moreover, he lived in poverty.

Monks and nuns took vows of poverty, chastity and obedience when they left their normal lives and joined (respectively) monasteries and convents.

The contrast between the vow of poverty demanded by monks and nuns and the wealth and luxury enjoyed by many monks and nuns was evident to the laity.

Ironically, one of the most likely answers to that question is that it was Europe's relative poverty compared to the Middle Eastern and Asian states that led Europeans to seek new sources of wealth.

St. Teresa led a major reform that redoubled the nuns' vow of poverty and their focus on prayer and purity (the reforms also abolished separate residences and lifestyles for nuns from rich and poor families).

Around 100 BCE even the existence of the Plebeian Assembly did little to mitigate the effect of the debt and poverty that afflicted so many Romans thanks to the power of patronage networks overseen by powerful noble patrons.

As South Korea evolved into a modern, technologically advanced and politically democratic society, the North became a nominally "communist" tyranny in which poverty and even outright starvation were tragic realities of life.

With industrialisation, the huge numbers of poor industrial workers began to recognise that their social identity was defined by their poverty and their working conditions, just as rich industrialists and slum landlords recognised that they were united by their wealth and their common interest in controlling the workers.