11.   But the natural beauty masks a grinding poverty that seems to get worse with every passing year.

12.   Central to the HUD transformation is the demolition of dozens of public housing high-rises that have become synonymous with crime, drugs and grinding poverty.

13.   Clearly, the administration sees a link between grinding poverty in some parts of the world and the security of the United States.

14.   He imagined Mississippi and Appalachia without the grinding poverty and asked, why not?

15.   If Mexico is always present in the hot dry air, so, too, is a grinding poverty.

16.   Indeed, Brazil, with its grinding rural poverty and violent slums, became the poster boy for development with Dickensian results.

17.   It was a story of grinding poverty.

18.   Mauro Feliciano and Honorio Garcia were simple men, dirt farmers who shared the grinding poverty of their Indian neighbors in the forgotten mountains of southern Mexico.

19.   Mired in grinding poverty, denied an education, with few avenues for a decent livelihood, the children can see no future.

20.   Most bombers are young, single, unemployed and hail from the grinding poverty of Palestinian refugee camps.