impoverishment
IPA: ɪmpˈɑvrɪʃmʌnt
noun
- The action of impoverishing someone.
- The state of being impoverished.
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Examples of "impoverishment" in Sentences
- Our political culture scarcely needs more impoverishment than it already has.
- Her life had undergone that impoverishment which is so dangerous to elementary natures, the loss of an ideal.
- An impoverishment is what I'd call it, and more than likely what the American public will once again be offered.
- Like Patten, Veblen feared that the impoverishment of workers was leading them to lives of undisciplined pleasure-seeking.
- One must guard against the misinterpretation of this term impoverishment as compared with the state of affairs which would have developed in the absence of credit expansion and the boom.
- Before the invasion of Gaza on 27 December 2008, Israel's siege had already created a humanitarian catastrophe there, with severe impoverishment, malnutrition, and destroyed infrastructure.
- What we're facing is the long-term impoverishment of the majority of the population in order to prop up a system where people at the top can cream off their fees and cream off their very fat incomes.
- So, the two assertions of 'impoverishment' and 'pollution' are demonstrably false. act like the professor you take as an e-name but fail to emulate, and ask me for my evidence showing your false assertions are false? daweber wrote: Mike Kiley, at the moment we have only three sources of
- Second, as it relates to the English vernacular specifically (and possibly other language groups as well) we have been subjected to a highly problematic English translation of the Roman missal - an impoverishment which is thankfully being addressed in our own day with a new, more faithful English translation of the modern Roman Missal underway.
- I´ve seen what people´s lives are actually like in unreconstructed tribal units, and the kind of brutality, unhappiness, narrowness, and spiritual impoverishment which is the human fate in such circumstances- and its a very hard fate to get out of, because a self-referential, collective self-hypnotic trance of entrapment within the tribal story is part of the landscape.
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