What's the difference between impoverished and poverty?

Impoverished


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Impoverish

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Slight but significant shortening of the latency of initial positivity in the evoked potential was observed after rearing in the enriched condition as compared to the data obtained from the littermates that were reared in the standard or impoverished conditions.
  • (2) The Saudi-led war in Yemen launched in March – against Houthi rebels who the Saudis insist are backed by Iran – has diverted resources and underlined the priority being given to the Gulf’s unstable and impoverished backyard.
  • (3) The majority of these cases of incest occur in an impoverished atmosphere, both on psychological and social levels.
  • (4) Her ability to estimate time intervals and general time perspective was constrained by her impoverished store of knowledge for personal experiences.
  • (5) Although the relevant knowledge base is still impoverished, the time may be appropriate to attempt to develop and investigate formal models of cognitive aging that incorporate explicit mechanisms to account for age differences frequently observed in measures of cognitive functioning.
  • (6) It has proposed linking repayment of the debt to growth (the only real way of paying creditors and of guaranteeing their rights), and has indicated its desire to implement those structural reforms needed to strengthen an impoverished state left too long in the hands of corrupt elites.
  • (7) But for others, the couple are social revolutionaries in this impoverished, landlocked nation that usually makes headlines only when someone like Madonna flies in.
  • (8) This group is associated with impoverished environments, inadequate financial and social resources, family dysfunction, exposure to violent abuse and neglect, genetic loading for psychiatric disorder, and parental criminality.
  • (9) This is an important agreement and it’s an agreement which indicates Cambodia’s readiness to be a good international citizen.” Under the deal, signed by previous immigration minister Scott Morrison and Cambodia’s interior minister Sar Kheng last September, Australia promised an additional $40m in aid to the impoverished south-east Asian country as well as $15.5m in resettlement , housing, education and integration costs for the refugees.
  • (10) At a recent rally in Dresden, Bachmann’s hometown, he told his followers that while asylum seekers enjoyed luxury accommodation, many impoverished German pensioners were “unable to even afford a single slice of Stollen” (German Christmas cake).
  • (11) Nestlé and the other water giants, Coca-Cola and Pepsi, have often cut deals with relatively isolated, impoverished rural communities whereby they take a percentage of the local water supply, paying enough to keep municipal rates low for local residents.
  • (12) Today, the national family is celebrating, and that very much includes those in this house.” Kaufman was an industrious constituency MP, holding roving surgeries around east Manchester every week and writing several forests worth of letters each year on behalf of his largely impoverished constituents.
  • (13) Sometimes they come even though they know someone in the same area, just down the street, has been shot.” She attributes this to a “continuous engagement with the workers and constant direction with local government officials”, while others at the centre point out that even though the money the workers receive is only 500 rupees (about £3) a day, for impoverished inhabitants of Karachi, it is too good a wage to pass up – whatever the risk.
  • (14) If any of them is neglected or isolated from the rest, the whole will be impoverished-the student will suffocate in disconnected, empirical facts; fanciful theories will be spun from tenuous evidence; well established theory will be neglected by the practitioner; the best-intentioned schemes will have disastrous long-term consequences.
  • (15) This study shows the variations in nursing care which a group of high-risk, severely impoverished, uninsured children require.
  • (16) The dusty and impoverished town has few signs of diamond wealth, and the word is that its senior baron recently fled to Maputo to evade Zimbabwe's secret police.
  • (17) Six years later, as the cultural revolution wreaked havoc, young Xi was dispatched to the dusty, impoverished north-western province of Shaanxi to "learn from the masses".
  • (18) Apple’s Irish offices are based near Knocknaheeny, an impoverished northern suburb of Cork.
  • (19) The key distance effect reported in the literature did not occur in the tasks of this investigation (Studies 1 and 3), and it may be apparent only for melodies shorter or more impoverished than those used here.
  • (20) Not one pound is getting through to elderly and frail people in our homes … It needs to get through to people who need it.” On the council tax precept , he added: “In northern constituencies they just won’t be able to raise the money, these are impoverished places like Knowsley or Birkenhead, where I am from.

Poverty


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
  • (n.) Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
  • (2) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
  • (3) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
  • (4) That's why the Trussell Trust has been calling for an in depth inquiry into the causes of food poverty.
  • (5) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
  • (6) Years of education completed and poverty status did not significantly affect folate concentrations; however, the prevalence of low folate concentrations among users of vitamin or mineral supplements was significantly lower than it was among nonusers in selected subgroups.
  • (7) "Due to much higher housing costs, one in seven of London's employees receives wages which are below the poverty threshold," says Mr Livingstone.
  • (8) After adjusting for health status, persons below poverty were shown to have significantly fewer physician contacts than persons above poverty.
  • (9) He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder.
  • (10) World leaders must reach a historic agreement to fight climate change and poverty at coming talks in Paris, facing the stark choice to either “improve or destroy the environment”, Pope Francis said in Africa on Thursday.
  • (11) Mother's oligophrenia, poverty, and familial unbalance were underlying causes.
  • (12) The potential benefits [of AI research] are huge, since everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools AI may provide, but the eradication of disease and poverty are not unfathomable,” the letter reads.
  • (13) "While the country is sunk in misery, families are ruined and children are growing up in poverty, this guy turns up and we pay €91m for him.
  • (14) The report was published on the same day that the charity Christians Against Poverty said it expects its free debt counselling service to experience its busiest day on record.
  • (15) He railed against the left’s lack of interest in tackling entrenched poverty.
  • (16) Families fear that after April’s disaster the cycle of poverty in the region will be intensified.
  • (17) In Britain you have all the things we have here – gangs, poverty, racism.
  • (18) Yet … real incomes did not rise and absolute poverty was unchanged."
  • (19) This is supposed to happen without pushing up energy bills excessively or extending fuel poverty.
  • (20) The cycle of events which leads to an impairment of the immune response in the malnourished child includes poverty, food deprivation and frequent infections.