1.   All it had was dry soil and impoverished villages.

2.   Although impoverished rural villages, many of them populated by Indians, huddle a short drive outside the city, Toluca itself moves to a modern, industrial rhythm.

3.   Born to illiterate parents, he grew up in an impoverished village on the Pacific coast.

4.   But the machine guns are pointed at the impoverished Shiite villages on the opposite sides of the road.

5.   Lynette Denny, for example, is a gynecological oncologist working with women in impoverished squatter villages and townships near Cape Town.

6.   No one is starving in this impoverished little village.

7.   Standing on the porch of his three-room house, he pointed through an afternoon mist at the impoverished village below.

8.   They grew up in an impoverished rural village and found their dreams in the big city.

9.   Unlike impoverished rural villages farther south, many of the towns in Zacatecas have paved streets lined with houses made of brick rather than leaves and mud.

10.   Plague was believed to have caused the epidemic, which has spread over the past week through several impoverished villages in the Badakhshan mountains of Afghanistan.