grinding poverty
abject poverty

Their first years together were a time of grinding poverty.

Her present life might not be grinding poverty, but it was certainly very far from wealth.

There's the grinding poverty into which so much of the world is plunged.

But his programs fell short of easing the country's grinding poverty.

Some of them coming from grinding poverty and run down estates may even find conditions better on the inside than outside.

Grinding poverty and racism are the backdrop to many of these lives.

The world cannot support that number except in grinding poverty and near starvation.

Another factor is the grinding poverty in the lives of many blacks and other minority children.

Grinding poverty is equally widespread in China, although we see and hear little about it.

Their safe haven was at least well hidden by grinding poverty.

Ms. Church, the mother of 10, is a woman worn down by grinding poverty and poor health.

All this results from ignorance, of course, but it mainly due to grinding poverty.

Too, there was the awful, grinding poverty of the people - and they blamed it on politics.

Those with worse medical conditions, those who are already living in grinding poverty.

In the face of such unrelieved, grinding poverty, hope fades.

He grew up in grinding poverty, and when Hogan was a boy, his father committed suicide.

His early years were spent in grinding poverty; as a child he suffered from rickets.

He and his Conservative colleagues fundamentally fail to understand what true, grinding poverty is like.

Then as now the masses lived under-nourished lives in grinding poverty.

Moving western jobs east may have given more Asians work but not necessarily lifted them out of grinding poverty.

Most Chinese farmers were (and largely still are) peasants who lived in grinding poverty.

But despite some exhibitions, sales, and smaller grants, she lived in grinding poverty.

But many people left extended families behind when they moved to Istanbul, and the grinding poverty has brought new strains.

If Mexico is always present in the hot dry air, so, too, is a grinding poverty.

I don't think it's just grinding poverty, although that obviously doesn't help.

More than 250 million people here live in abject poverty.

What about other members of the community who remain in abject poverty?

Abject poverty took on a whole new meaning for her.

Many of their inhabitants are still living in abject poverty.

A large proportion of its people live in abject poverty.

However, many people are living in abject poverty because of the poll tax.

An estimated 80 percent of the population lives in abject poverty.

How can companies market to the vast majority of the world that is in abject poverty?

Protecting people from abject poverty when there is no work costs money.

His world was one plagued with political corruption and abject poverty.

She bore the traces of something better than abject poverty.

"I take it that you are not reconciled to a life of abject poverty?"

Most of her life was spent in abject poverty.

The number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

"And he had imagined that we would be living in abject poverty.

Instead, we see abject poverty, incompetence and corruption at every level.

Many such families are living in abject poverty at home or as refugees abroad, cut off from family and friends.

It also has a parallel plot about three street kids trying to live life in abject poverty.

The family lived in abject poverty as a result.

"He had very few commissions in this period and was close to abject poverty.

But that has not done much to relieve the abject poverty on the black side of town, where unemployment is more than 65 percent.

This is a popular revolt because the people are subjected to abject poverty.

For some legendary fighters it's keeping them from abject poverty.

The level of abject poverty is the world's lowest.

He lived in abject poverty and was prone to alcoholism.