Even Europe's leftist intelligentsia now associates crime and urban squalor with immigration.

LONDON The usual images of Africa are of a continent mired in conflict and squalor.

She lived to a hundred, even then. All along it was the sadness, the squalor, but I never, until now loved her again.

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Above all, however, he has achieved a 6.3 effective reduction of poverty, after taking over a country whose vast majority 80 was perched between poverty and squalor.

His novel Autumn of the Patriarch captures perfectly the moral squalor, political paralysis, and savage ennui that enshrouds a society awaiting the death of a long term dictator.

As observed during earlier meetings, millions of people in Africa continue to bear the brunt of famine, extreme poverty and pandemics, and they survive each day in squalor.

After all, the West is now paying a high price for allowing the ordinary people of the Middle East to live for so long in hopeless squalor while their rulers wallowed in oil wealth.

We have also committed ourselves to addressing extreme poverty and hunger by redistributing land to the majority of our citizens, who had been condemned to conditions of squalor by years of colonialism and its vestiges.

After all, it was during the reign of Catherine the Great that the Potemkin village was invented, whereby the squalor of the lives of Catherine s serfs was hidden behind cheerfully painted housing façades as the Empress toured her country.

The great dissident writer Nadezhda Mandelstam had seen for us a future in which we could only hope against hope yet here was a leader who saw for us a future not of squalor and moral compromise, but of freedom and opportunity.

The death watch for Fidel Castro is something that only Gabriel Garcia Marquez could get right. His novel Autumn of the Patriarch captures perfectly the moral squalor, political paralysis, and savage ennui that enshrouds a society awaiting the death of a long term dictator.