An impoverishment is what I'd call it, and more than likely what the American public will once again be offered. From Wordnik.com. [Matt Reeves Explains Why He’s Remaking Let The Right One In | /Film] Reference
Her life had undergone that impoverishment which is so dangerous to elementary natures, the loss of an ideal. From Wordnik.com. [Demos] Reference
It means a veritable impoverishment of vast populations. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference
To do so would only mean our impoverishment and our ruin. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
This sets up a domino effect that ends in biological impoverishment. From Wordnik.com. [Diversity Disappears In Florida] Reference
And yet the startling impoverishment of our culture continues apace. From Wordnik.com. [David Shasha: Natalie Merchant and American Radical Traditionalism] Reference
They saw, too, the gradual but unrelenting impoverishment of the east. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
The impoverishment of China began with the flow abroad of her metallic currency. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
The second is the relative (temporary, one hopes) impoverishment of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Are You an Ugly American?] Reference
These extreme cases exemplify a process of impoverishment from which we all daily suffer. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference
The Mongol epoch was thus one of continual and rapid impoverishment in China, simultaneously with. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
Patients would be compensated within months, instead of after years of uncertainty and even impoverishment. From Wordnik.com. [Civil Wars] Reference
For the impoverishment of any single people in the world means danger to the well-being of all other peoples. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
This fact will not serve to lessen the discontent of the masses, which their impoverishment is sure to create. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference
Why had she, his Jewel, accepted the loneliness, the impoverishment of those younger days with light-heartedness?. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
In contrast with the impoverishment of the Toba, the Chinese gentry grew not only more powerful but more wealthy. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
Above all, the decline was not so noticeable in the state of the Exchequer as in a general impoverishment of China. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
The levels of impoverishment and economic ruin in strip-mined coalfields areas rival those prior to the War on Poverty. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Biggers: SOS: Day 12,065 of Mountaintop Removal Disaster: Appalachia is Rising (Again)] Reference
Its growing egotism and the colossal egotism of the modern world form a prime cause for the impoverishment of worship in. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
The book asserts that European and later North American interests led to the pillaging and impoverishment of the region. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2009] Reference
France paid it in the shape of famine and pestilence, excessive taxes, heavy debts, and the impoverishment of the people. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
He strengthened her disposition to revolt against the further impoverishment of it, through the starving of her own nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Many cases of rheumatic fever have been induced through impoverishment, caused by excesses on the part of young married men. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
While in so many other American songs the bike is a symbol of failure or impoverishment, for Richman it's about freedom and fun. From Wordnik.com. [Readers recommend: hunting songs] Reference
We have seen that an exclusive dependence upon the foreign market must lead to a still severer distress, to impoverishment, to ruin. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
He knows that the age pushes young people into predation not merely with grinding material impoverishment. but also with toxic ideas. From Wordnik.com. [A Trickle-Down Culture] Reference
But what has happened to Iraqis, over the course of the last 10 years, is that they have fallen into deep impoverishment, most of them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2002] Reference
Iraqis have had it with more than a decade of impoverishment, isolation and fear, says the study's researcher who asked not to be named. From Wordnik.com. [Iraq: Go Invade My Space] Reference
Iraqis have had it with more than a decade of impoverishment, isolation and fear, says the study's researcher, who asked not to be named. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
The impoverishment of the country by periodic revolutions has had its effect on the municipalities and prevented their proper development. From Wordnik.com. [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference
When we take into consideration the fact that the cause of the disease is impoverishment of the blood, the treatment will not be difficult. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
A further reason which exists for the manuring of meadow-land is the greater impoverishment of the soil taking place under such conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
Furthermore, if "everything is political," emotional impoverishment is inevitable because love is impossible, selflessness being unimaginable. From Wordnik.com. [A Trickle-Down Culture] Reference
So, when we get a story of the impoverishment and squalor of Iraq, nothing appears to trace such effects to the economic sanctions of 1990-2003. From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: One More War, Please] Reference
In permanent pasture-soils, however, no such counteracting action takes place, hence impoverishment of the surface-soil in lime eventually results. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
However, land right protection is not enough to diminish the risk of impoverishment of IDPs as was established as the main objective of the project. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Maree: On Land Rights and Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia] Reference
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