But I learned in Vista that you cannot really know what overwhelming poverty is like until you have lived with the people suffering it.

Returning to Peru for college, he was deeply struck by the overwhelming poverty.

Such an exaggerated view overlooks many essential features of Chinese life, including overwhelming poverty, a disorganized economy and a fragile political system.

Although he is doing what he loves most, Zucker said, at times, he gets worn down by his clients' overwhelming poverty.

All of these are catalysed somewhat by the overwhelming poverty of the depression.

But so far, civilian rule has not changed the government's habitual use of harsh repression nor dented the delta's overwhelming poverty.

These efforts are more promising for forest conservation than a simplistic protection policy, which is futile in areas of overwhelming poverty.

They paint a grim picture of poverty overwhelming those children, their neighborhoods and their schools.

Since the earthquake, chronic problems - like inadequate services and overwhelming poverty - have only intensified.

During this era, France saw a tightening of social structures, with a lower class steeped in overwhelming poverty.