Sentence examples for a poor district of from inspiring English sources

Fritz & his mother lived in a poor district of N.Y.

I'd just come back from shooting in a poor district of Palermo.

Here people from a poor district of Manila play using wooden discs.

At daybreak, grieving relatives and friends stood outside the charred building in a poor district of the Venezuelan capital.

A lorry is delivering a winter's supply of coal to a retired widower in a poor district of Lodz (pronounced Woodge), Poland's second city.

Salem was born 41 years ago in a poor district of Saint-Denis, the island's administrative capital, where her mother worked as a cleaner and cook.

She lies under a clean, faded pink sheet in a post-operative recovery room at Roi Baudouin Health Centre in Guédiawaye, a poor district on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal.

Paulina Vásquez, 52, a housekeeper and mother of three children in their 20s who live with her in a poor district on a steep mountainside of La Paz, sows the crop each year on her family's land outside the city.

A riot in 1980 in St Pauls, a poor district north-east of the city centre, kicked off a round of racial outbursts in cities around the country.

We went through a poor district where large numbers of young men lurked in a predatory manner.

In Douar Hicher, a poor district at the edge of Tunis, it is common knowledge that 40 or 50 young men have left to fight, of whom perhaps a dozen have been killed.