1.   They lost all their money and sank into desperate poverty.

2.   The photographs confront the viewer with images of desperate poverty.

3.   Bangladesh is considered one of the most vulnerable spots on the global trafficking market, a product of the desperate poverty here and the demand for cheap labor elsewhere.

4.   Many others live austere lives, and too many, especially the elderly, have fallen into desperate poverty.

5.   South Africa has many problems, such as desperate poverty and terrifying crime.

6.   Sure, some people have done well, including those who have taken advantage of governmental inaction and desperate poverty to make fast money in contraband.

7.   The Great Depression, in which millions experienced desperate poverty and hunger, may have forged their character for the challenges ahead.

8.   The government and its Islamic opposition now uneasily govern Tajikistan together, but desperate poverty and a tattered social and economic infrastructure survive.

9.   The oil-producing Delta gets virtually nothing back to alleviate desperate poverty or clean up environmental destruction.

10.   This is not the desperate poverty of Chicago housing projects, where the plight of empty pockets is worsened by the threat of gangs and gunfire.