Sentence examples for are kept poor from inspiring English sources

The poor do not use kerosene because it is cheap — they are kept poor in significant part because they must rely on expensive, dirty kerosene.

I think we are kept poor as an area because of that.

American and European subsidies push the price down even further and this way third world countries are kept poor and in debt to the Agrochemical giants who maintain a healthy profit.

Ivan subscribes casually to the popular notion that Russia has been kept poor and retarded by a Jewish conspiracy.

Although Tibetans have been kept poor by discriminatory Chinese policies, their primary grievance is not economic but rather the occupation of their country by a foreign army.

"Would China be better off today if it had been kept poor and isolated since the demonstrations of 1989?" In the meantime, Aung San Suu Kyi remains under house arrest, not far from the address on University Avenue where my parents and I briefly, and incomparably less meaningfully, shared the same condition.

He says he wants to resurrect the community game and claims it has been kept poor by the Union.

The problem is exacerbated by how livestock are kept in poor countries, which can magnify diseases borne by wild animals.

Children are kept looking poor and malnourished and taught to sing or dance to maximise pity and western donations.

This variation could be a reflection of the husbandry system in that pigs are reared in Addis Ababa and the nearby Special Oromia Zone, where animals are kept under poor husbandry practices such as feeding swill, poultry litter, abattoir offal and garbage; sheltering with other domestic animals and confinement in poor housing system and where they have close contact with other animals and humans.

"But there's a problem: They are kept by very poor people, and they don't want to stay poor".