For the next twenty years, Žemaitė worked on their farm, raised their children, and battled poverty.

Yolette Hodge, a single parent, and her sons, Edwin, 11, and Aldis, 9, battled poverty and periodic homelessness before the boys also won parts in "Show Boat."

Historian Nancy Koester expressed the belief that Prohibition was a "victory for progressives and social gospel activists battling poverty".

Yunus's dedication to battling global poverty earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, and he has declared that his mission is to "help create a world free of poverty.

A warm and spirited woman, she battled poverty daily and coped with a philandering husband who probably gave her syphilis.

As long as people are not battling poverty, they tend to rate their happiness in the range of 6 or 7, or higher, on a 10-point scale.

Weakness and fear are clearly at the heart of the India-Pakistan dispute; why else would two nations battling so much poverty, corruption and population growth divert their scarce cash into building nuclear weapons?

The idealised image of the heroic romantic poet who battled poverty and died young was inflated by the late arrival of an authoritative biography and the lack of an accurate likeness.

She is associated with UK charity Fashion For Good who provide funds to projects battling poverty across the UK.

With Uzbek officials looking to potential world business partners, they talk of battling poverty by building their own cotton mills.