Its population dwindled, its poverty deepened.

As the poverty deepened, there was simply no way to dilute it.

When the most highly skilled workers migrate to the cities, rural poverty deepens.

Inflation has soared to 175 percent, the value of the local currency has plummeted and poverty is deepening.

The poverty has only deepened since then.

As poverty and starvation deepened, the Utes began to return to Colorado to hunt, causing a great outcry.

Still, as poverty has deepened, New York's public housing projects have grown poorer and more vulnerable to crime and social disintegration.

In this approach, government leaders would fail to get ahead of the AIDS epidemic, and Africa's poverty and underdevelopment would deepen.

Pollution worsened as millions of Africans abandoned rural villages for urban shantytowns, foreign aid from wealthy nations declined and poverty deepened.

The poverty in those regions has deepened in the past 20 years, he said, and people there have enough communication with the outside world to know that they are losing out.