The cruel loss of life and the impoverished widows and children left behind inspired Plimsoll to take up the sailors' plight.

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Last year 3, 000 Eritreans are thought to have fled their repressive and impoverished country in search of a better life.

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Wolf Hall followed the life of Thomas Cromwell from his impoverished beginnings as the son of a violent blacksmith, to his meteoric rise in the court of King Henry VIII.

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But he may be best known for his gritty photo essays for Life magazine, images that documented the lives of impoverished and disenfranchised people, not only in the United States, but around the world.

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In fact, it would allow the Palestinians the opportunity to reconstitute their civil society after eight years of living under a corrupt dictatorship, which impoverished and subjugated them and told them to value murder more than life.

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In many ways, the theft from damaged pipelines, which can lead to such appalling loss of life, symbolises the lot of ordinary Nigerians: they have been impoverished by a succession of bad governments which have siphoned off the country's oil wealth for themselves, neglecting in particular those living over the filthy oil wells.

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