7 sentences with 'poverty'
Example sentences and phrases with the word poverty and other words derived from it.
• « 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. »
• « Monks and nuns took vows of poverty, chastity and obedience when they left their normal lives and joined (respectively) monasteries and convents. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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). »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »