Sentence examples for a time when poor from inspiring English sources

Bancroft was writing at a time when poor men were newly enfranchised, and a lot of his friends thought that these men were too stupid to vote.

"She grew up in a time when poor girls were not supposed to dream," Mr. Gore told the audience at the exclusive Nashville City Club.

Scotland was an impoverished country at a time when poor roads made importing wheat both difficult and expensive, and a northern country with soil that would not support raising much of its own.

Critics say the service extensions are a desperate effort to maintain troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan at a time when poor planning has caused forces to be spread too thin.

Fully inhabiting India's troubled present, "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" can only hint at a less oppressive past — a "peaceful age" that to Abdul sounds like something out of myth, a time when "poor people had accepted the fates that their respective gods had written on their foreheads, and in turn treated one another more kindly".

The challenging nature of the Meurent portraits was not immediately appreciated by the public, and at a time when poor women were often forced to sell themselves, a woman whose naked body could be seen in public - albeit in an oil painting - was straight-forwardly perceived as a prostitute.

Never mind that making free school meals universal diverted state money towards richer families at a time when poorer families (whose children were already receiving free school meals) could have benefited much more from the cash.

As David Cameron and his cabinet of millionaires sit in their Westminster offices with little regard for students, they should remember this: every single one of them started university when it was free of charge, and at a time when poorer students had a grant to support them as they studied.

And in the case of SNAP that failure costs taxpayers twice: We pay once when low-income families buy junk foods and sugary beverages with SNAP benefits, and we pay a second time when poor diet quality inevitably increases the costs of health care in general, and Medicaid and Medicare in particular".

But one afternoon, she and a friend watched proceedings in Family Court at time when poor children were not given assigned counsel.

At the time when poor countries need outside assistance the most, aid budgets are shrinking, damaging progress toward the Millennium Development Goals of reducing avoidable deaths, hunger and poverty.