“The ongoing drought has continued to impoverish the once fertile land, depleting its water supply and agricultural resources.”

“The sudden loss of a major client can swiftly impoverish a small business.”

“Superficiality of public argument and inattention to sustained discussion were thought to impoverish decision-making about public affairs.”

“He did not propose to pauperize his farm by applying his personal ignorance to working it.”

“How can we rescue them from poverty and illiteracy, and not pauperize them?”

“The best way to get rid of the pauper spirit is to pauperize some one else.”

“It lessens the map, loses chances for reflection and meta-level thought and language and impoverishes the imagination of all.”

“Environmentalists claim trade harms the environment and further impoverishes people in the developing world.”

“It is a half-truth that notably impoverishes the life of the Conferences and their possibilities of performing.”

“They want to make political and social choices of their own. Chain reaction? In pauperised Myanmar the sequence is in reverse.”

“Mr Mugabe has pauperised a formerly prosperous country and used thuggery to remain perpetually in power.”

“It is as if Fate has decreed that this most pauperised nation on earth should not be able to throw the chains and shackles of despots and vampire fundamentalists away so easily.”

“Perspectives are the root, the basic fiber, and the foundation of every social plague impoverishing us.”

“As wazir, Safdar Jang diverted imperial funds for his own use, so much so that he was accused of impoverishing the Mughal court.”

“Mahuad plans to replace sucres with dollars at a rate of 25,000 to one, effectively impoverishing a large majority of the country's 12 million people.”

“We took day about giving him his carfare, but this was pauperizing and we knew it.”