Sentence examples for assisted few from inspiring English sources

Although money was spent, medicine was distributed, and people were assisted, few Haitians were able to become an active part of their recovery process.

Though I am pleased with New York City's decision to start a rent-subsidy program for 500 homeless families (news article, Oct. 12), I must point out that this is considered only a remedial plan in response to the current emergency, and will assist fewer than 10percentt of the more than 5,000 families now languishing in the shelter system.

In the previous two years, they had only assisted very few women, mainly family members and close neighbours.

Crescente Relacion, the Philippine ambassador to Qatar, who declined to be interviewed but issued a written response to Guardian questions, said the embassy had assisted the fewer than five expatriates who had filed such charges with police in 2013.

He said the town hopes to assist the few hundred residents of the older apartment buildings nearby, but admitted it might be difficult to resist economic forces.

We could debate all year long about whether the scheme has merit and whether it's environmentally the right thing to be doing, assisting a few hundred people to commute 100 miles each way to work.

Unfortunately, another way in which US housing mirrors the UK is that serious debate of housing policy, apart from lame attempts to assist a few homeowners, is virtually absent.

It's only been used to assist a few surgeries so far (at Sunnybrook Hostpital in Toronto), and there are no concrete plans to expand it to other hospitals or commercialize the tech, but considering how useful it is, and how easy to implement, I wouldn't be surprised to see this in many more locations come 2012.

But despite first impressions they didn't seem to actually be worker bees, since they almost determinedly refrained from directly assisting we few who were trying to access the sweet deliciousness of their books.

Perhaps they were assisted by a few unforced areas, but it was a final term that showed grit and resolve.

In this they were assisted by a few progressive landowners, chief among whom was the Slavophile Yury Samarin.