Their poverty usually led them to vote for the candidate who offered them the most.

He speculated that poverty in Cairo could lead to a violent confrontation with the police.

In the Soviet zone, however, the poverty and lack of personal freedom led to significant westward emigration.

This poverty led him and his siblings to create toys from the discarded objects around them.

And the insurance industry now acknowledges that poverty rather than race led to shorter lives for many of those against whom the companies discriminated.

Now, actuaries and sociologists say that poverty rather than race led to shorter lives.

His poverty lead him to sell many of the remaining diamonds.

This has serious consequences for society because poverty leads to illness and can consequently result in unemployment.

Planners to social researchers stress that poverty leads to dejected problems within a society.

The poverty of his upbringing led Brown in later life to resent those who had a more privileged background and a university education.