1.   He was born in abject poverty with a family history of madness, yet grew up to take the world by storm.

2.   He was shocked by the abject poverty that he saw.

3.   However, many people are living in abject poverty because of the poll tax.

4.   Many such families are living in abject poverty at home or as refugees abroad, cut off from family and friends.

5.   The parasite has been nurtured by abject poverty, intermittent political chaos and, some charge, international indifference.

6.   The Sisters also try never to reject anyone in abject poverty, the hungry or starving.

7.   Wealth was much more frequent than abject poverty.

8.   What these hopefuls achieved for their pleasure and pain was a violent lifestyle of abject poverty.

9.   Both of them died in abject poverty.

10.   Bridgett, like generations of her family, grew up in a three-room rotting pine shack and struggled against abject poverty.