1.   For generations the Sandovals, like millions of their fellow countrymen, had suffered from grinding poverty and deprivation.

2.   Until recently her life had been an endless cycle of grinding poverty and growing hopelessness.

3.   Yet, regrettably, the lasting impression is of a merely superficial look at grinding poverty.

4.   Their grandfather had left his village in order to escape the grinding poverty.

5.   Years of grinding poverty that had reduced them to a subhuman existence.

6.   And a perilous economic gap has widened, further isolating a rich coterie of well-connected families from the grinding poverty of the majority.

7.   And high rice prices, along with the technological change that doubled and tripled productivity, did much to eradicate grinding rural poverty.

8.   A decade of conflict in this region, and the grinding poverty of post-communist Eastern Europe, have helped breed this network.

9.   But just how much has the nation really awakened to the grinding poverty that strangles the people who harvest the food we eat?

10.   But many people left extended families behind when they moved to Istanbul, and the grinding poverty has brought new strains.