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- noun Plural form of
poverty .
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Examples
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While Labour has poured money into welfare in a vain attempt to change the statistics with regards to families on 60% of median income, they have missed the reality of what the theologian Graham Ward has called "the new poverties" of the postmodern city.
Labour's child poverty failure Burke's Corner 2009
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They see that Goldman Sachs and Lloyd Blankfein making record poverties and paying what could be $23 billion to some 31,000 employees this year so quickly after big bailouts and capital infusions from the federal government.
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While Labour has poured money into welfare in a vain attempt to change the statistics with regards to families on 60% of median income, they have missed the reality of what the theologian Graham Ward has called "the new poverties" of the postmodern city.
Archive 2009-09-01 Burke's Corner 2009
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The president of ATL provides some heart-rending examples of these new poverties: Once, I sent a girl home with her first book, to share with her mother.
Labour's child poverty failure Burke's Corner 2009
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The president of ATL provides some heart-rending examples of these new poverties: Once, I sent a girl home with her first book, to share with her mother.
Archive 2009-09-01 Burke's Corner 2009
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During what long thankless nights had she worked out her fingers for little Georgy whilst at home with her; what buffets, scorns, privations, poverties had she endured for father and mother!
Vanity Fair 2006
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But the truth doesn't change, 'the truth sent from above', about our own universal ruin and restoration and about what that lays upon us when we look at the various specific poverties we confront in our human family.
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It was wonderfully characteristic of her that, having invented a fine theory, about Gilbert Osmond, she loved him not for what he really possessed, but for his very poverties dressed out as honours.
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But I very much share your overall sentiment, which is that the problems in developing countries and poverties are immense and we all should be doing more.
Press Briefing By Gene Sperling On Okinawa Summit ITY National Archives 2000
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And there was located in one of the poverties, one of the neighborhoods that they have a lot of poverty, in La Paz.
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