"poverty" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Living in "voluntary poverty," Catholic Workers divide their time between prayer, study, civil disobedience and work with the poor.
- During that period he abandoned society, and lived in voluntary poverty on a few pence a day.
- To do so, he adopted voluntary poverty and "nonpossession"; the royalties from his 100-odd books go to a public charitable trust.
- Virginity, voluntary poverty, and self-denial had long been admired.
- Some people undertake voluntary poverty due to religious or philosophical beliefs.
- Poverty reduction measures have no role in regard to voluntary poverty.
- Their name suggests that they placed a special value on voluntary poverty.
- The term "the poor" was at first a common designation for all Christians - a reference to their material and voluntary poverty.
- Members still dedicate themselves to voluntary poverty, nonviolence and hard work.
- There was at that time no "clear distinction between voluntary and involuntary poverty".
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