To now be deemed impoverished, a person must make less than 1, 196 yuan a year.
On Lobskaya Hill, like a constellation of impoverished stars, stood a hamlet of four little huts.
Other gifts include buying a bit of South American rainforest or a cow for impoverished Indian families or a bicycle to help midwives carry out their work in Ethiopia.
Trinity is in a largely impoverished neighborhood that Marty says is a tough place to fend for yourself, let alone a place to help others.
In fact, the Pistols lived at a flat above no 6, while a then-impoverished David Bowie reputedly lived in a campervan on the street.
Whereas the Jews who remained in Spain after 1391 were by and large a pitiful, impoverished remnant of what had once been a magnificent community, the Conversos quickly became the leaders of Spain, and in so doing, angered their fellow Catholic Spaniards who envied their success.
Not so much as an extra credit clinic for representing impoverished Muslims in a Sharia court of law.
Similarly, the case has no impact on Medicaid, the government program that does pay for these services for people who are both impoverished and need a high level of assistance.
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For example, Praveen Moman, co-founder and managing director of Volcanoes Safaris, which provides tours of Uganda and Rwanda, specializing in gorilla and chimpanzee safaris, talked about starting a luxury-type project in countries that are underdeveloped, impoverished and never having a tourism component.
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On Wednesday evening, Russia's government-run Channel One devoted an hour of prime time to a raucous talk show about an impoverished family that has become a reluctant national symbol of the issue.
Banks have traditionally struggled to find a profitable business model in impoverished areas, where the cost of operating a branch office usually outweighs whatever profits it can achieve.
To give a few examples: the small Central American state of Belize was further impoverished by the construction of a new capital, Belmopan, in the 1960s-1970s, whose cost spiralled to four times its original estimate.
Natalie Merchant, as the impoverished maid, sings a song that deals with both.
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Such migrants include people of various incomes, but also a large impoverished population.
Often, the future of entire families is in the balance as these Roma, among the most poverty-stricken people in a deeply impoverished region, seek to forge mutually beneficial unions that will help them weather Bulgaria's brutal economic downturn.
If employers step to the plate to introduce retirement solutions to employees and even work to enhance these opportunities for their retirees, I believe we may be able to save millions of Americans from impoverished elder years at a very low cost to either employer or employee.
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Plainly, Asia and the rest of the world could be facing a major struggle to ensure that the impoverished of Planet Earth wouldn't be written off by a group of American experts, no matter how brilliant and well-meaning they may be.
Last year 3, 000 Eritreans are thought to have fled their repressive and impoverished country in search of a better life.
To get there, the pipeline passes through neighboring Georgia, a small, impoverished republic that has no energy resources of its own.
In his impoverished Medellin, Escobar built a soccer field and a school.
As a result of the first world war it had been reduced to a small, impoverished country that was later to be absorbed by Hitler's Germany.
For instance, Tyler Farms, spread out across 60, 000 acres of the impoverished Mississippi Delta, is a co-operative, bringing together some 39 investors, most from the same family, who in turn own 66 individual companies.
B'nai Moshe was a few blocks from the heart of the old pushcart ghetto, still the city's poorest district though home no longer to B'nai Moshe's congregants but to a community of impoverished Negroes, recent migrants from the South.
Shiv Sena and its breakaway Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), headed by Thackeray's nephew, claim to be champions of Maharashtrian issues, especially economic issues, as hundreds of thousands of migrants from a number of impoverished states are lured to Mumbai for jobs.
Like many of China's impoverished elderly, she is a former farmer, too old to benefit from the booming economy that has swept the younger generation into China's factories, and passed over by a benefit system that is skewed in favor of urbanites.
And yet somehow despite all the obvious pitfalls with true love between an impoverished teenaged human girl and a century old and super rich vampire man, their marriage as soon as she graduates from high school, her life-ending (and vampire beginning) pregnancy, people around the world have paid money in record numbers to see Breaking Dawn Part 2.
In late December, the citizens of Nago, a town in Okinawa's impoverished rural north, voted by 54% to 46% not to let the American Marine Corps moor a floating helicopter base off the beach, near its existing Camp Schwab.
To succeed, we must cast aside the impulse to look at impoverished parts of the globe as a place for charity.
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Grusha then undergoes a perilous journey to evade vicious soldiers, becoming a loving mother during a few difficult, impoverished years in exile.
Chery rose up in Wuhu, an industrial city of about 700, 000 in China's impoverished and mountainous Anhui province, a five-hour drive from Shanghai.
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