poverty-ridden

Its image as a poverty-ridden area developed in the latter part of the 20th century.

This poverty-ridden nation has little alternative food or employment to offer.

Poverty-ridden land left peasants with no option but trade for a living.

Not far from these, however, one can see poverty-ridden old people's homes, the inhabitants of which struggle to survive.

Detroit is shabby, poverty-ridden and struggling to keep its head above water It has a huge crime problem.

The state also faces a separatist movement in poverty-ridden Telangana region.

As a result, Berlin does not have poverty-ridden ghettos.

She rises to a very pompous lifestyle as opposed to her previous poverty-ridden one.

Essex, he said, was a downtrodden, poverty-ridden mess for more than a century.

It receives no Government funding in this poverty-ridden nation, and it is broke.

I was a poverty-ridden student striving for life in a system which makes the very existence of a scholar precarious.

Dad, on the other hand, was a product of the struggling, poverty-ridden uneducated Ghetto members.

He grew up in the tough streets of a poverty-ridden Mexican-American neighborhood.

From a poverty-ridden farming area where the average nester was fighting bankruptcy year after year.

Yet just a short bus ride away is the poverty-ridden township of Alexandria, where many people still stuff cash under their mattresses.

Thai fashion, architecture, entertainment and consumer goods have taken over Cambodia, a broken, poverty-ridden country.

Africa is often seen as a single, poverty-ridden entity, but investors have grown more discriminating. '

"We are 50 steps from Yale, but in the Dixwell neighborhood," a poverty-ridden area.

They were, in general, well-to-do and came, not as poverty-ridden refugees, but as men of substance.

Armed with a letter from the Guatemalan minister of health stating the poverty-ridden country could care for him, the hospital sent him home.

They say the poverty-ridden region produces oil but does not sufficiently benefit from the wealth that the oil generates.

The center is in a poverty-ridden section of the Rockaways peninsula, which has been plagued by drug abuse, the monsignor said.

Luciany's story reveals some of the complexities of adoptions in the poverty-ridden country.

In District 7, a poverty-ridden part of the South Bronx, however, only five children received gifted placements.

Their image was of a poverty-ridden backwater barely in the 20th century, much less the 21st, and recent history held out little to change their minds.