The public defender's office usually represents 80 percent of the defendants in this impoverished city, but only 7 of its 42 lawyers have returned.

The crippling fiscal structure, long a hurdle to raising adequate revenue in this impoverished city, is under assault.

But in Detroit, events conspired to leave the city uniquely impoverished, abandoned and militant.

This led to the traditional pattern of an impoverished inner city and more prosperous suburbs.

And so too for the deaths of friends and the sudden terrors of an occupied impoverished city.

The difference is that baseball bluffs and bullies impoverished cities into building new ball parks and highways.

He's making his way to Kars, an impoverished city in Anatolia, just as a severe snowstorm begins.

The citizens of this graceful but impoverished city have a message for the West: Hand over your money, or we'll shoot.

Georgetown is an impoverished city with a crime problem, so it is best not to tempt muggers.

Mr. Latortue also promised a series of public works projects for this impoverished and decrepit city.