poverty-stricken country
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poverty-stricken
adjective
uk/ˈpɒv.ə.tiˌstrɪk.ən/us/ˈpɑː.vɚ.t̬iˌstrɪk.ən/
A poverty-stricken person or place is suffering from the effects of being ...
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country
noun
uk/ˈkʌn.tri/us/ˈkʌn.tri/
an area of land that has its own government, ...
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Perhaps that is one of the reasons why it is such apoverty-strickencountry.
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We must ensure that this small andpoverty-strickencountrycan resume its progress towards reconstruction and development as quickly as possible.
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Why not send them back to thepoverty-strickencountrywhich they are trying to get the rest of us to join?
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If we reach a stage where local government is allowed only to subsidise cricket, dominoes and the church tower, we shall be a verypoverty-strickencountryspiritually and otherwise.
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We have heard it said from time to time, not only in this place, but in another place, that this is going to be apoverty-strickencountryafter the war.
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The first is a faithful depiction of thepoverty-strickencountrylife he knew so well, and it sets forth principles and rules for farmers.
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The famine, disease andpoverty-strickencountrycollapsed.
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All the problems of the third world and poverty-stricken countries ultimately affect us.
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But their provisions for dealing with poverty-stricken countries take a long time to mature.
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Although the increases cause immense difficulties for the industrialised countries, they cause intolerable burdens for the poverty-stricken countries, which are approaching financial crisis.
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There is the question of all the panoply of wealth of the élite of politicians in poverty-stricken countries.
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Any other attitude would spell disaster in the world, where there is not so much a gap as a chasm between the affluent and the developing and poverty-stricken countries.
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Should there not be some framework to ensure that a company which takes the trouble to invest in poverty-stricken countries has recourse to the moneys that it has built up?
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