(1) They discourage investment and impoverish their people

(2) All those obscenities and repeated slang phrases may be authentic but they tend to impoverish the language of his books.

(3) This would also, I fear, gravely impoverish our language.

(4) Prolonged military confrontationu2026 will impoverish our resources and strength, while retarding our march to civilization by at least a hundred years.

(5) Such companies, the argument goes, exploit poor workers abroad and impoverish workers at home by moving capital overseas.

(6) A ban on timber exports would cost the exporters their clients and impoverish many hard-working people trying to make an honest living in an already harsh economic environment.

(7) They impoverish soil and destroy habitat, including wetlands.

(8) However, due to the burgeoning housing developments outside the Bay Area, another flood may kill or impoverish thousands.

(9) Many children have grown up economically impoverished and thrived as adults.

(10) The promotion of the idea that private is better than public not only impoverishes our common dreams - it is also clearly untrue.

(11) America's entertainment culture was becoming increasingly impoverished : Redford saw independent film as its best hope.

(12) It lessens the map, loses chances for reflection and meta-level thought and language and impoverishes the imagination of all.

(13) The sense among conservationists, he said, is that current rates of burning u2018are too frequent and impoverishing ecosystems.u2019

(14) He admitted that some impoverished farmers sell the crop to third parties who make cocaine for export to Western countries.

(15) And the absence of the annual leaf fall - organic matter that helps hold moisture - impoverishes what soil is left.

(16) Concurrently, unemployment rates rocketed in these extremely impoverished areas and health care was almost nonexistent.

(17) Family impoverishment and bankruptcy due to illness would be eliminated.

(18) Unfortunately, small impoverished regions cannot remain both isolated and liberated for long.

(19) While the two-party system meets the known and stated political demands of many - probably most - Americans, it impoverishes our political discourse.

(20) With all the impoverishment , hardship and discontent, one has to ask: where is the wealth?

(21) Families in these impoverished regions are barely able to survive even when they are left alone.

(22) The residents are mostly impoverished families who survive by collecting recyclable garbage.

(23) Sanctions imposed back then are still in place, more than ever raising questions about the wisdom and the morality of impoverishing an entire people in an effort to punish its leaders.

(24) Religious believers sometimes accuse us of having a superficial and impoverished view of the world.

(25) Our private hopes are encouraged, while our public hopes are impoverished .

(26) The half island with a population of just 800,000 people is one of the most impoverished countries in the world.

(27) The shirts will then be distributed to some of the most impoverished areas of the Macedonian capital.

(28) Canada was prospering in a material sense; spiritually it was becoming increasingly impoverished .

(29) Reducing it to an expletive degrades the word, erases the idea, impoverishes language and makes us ever so slightly more stupid than we were before.

(30) Only eight of the world's most impoverished countries have seen a significant cut in their payments to Western creditors.