Sentence examples for be deemed poor from inspiring English sources

About 128m Chinese countryfolk earning less than 2,300 yuan ($361) a year will now be deemed poor, compared with the 26.9m who fell beneath the previous poverty line of 1,196 yuan.China has a tradition of defining destitution abstemiously, perhaps in an effort to keep the poverty count low and the relief bill down.

Things got so bad, their lawyer advised Kelly and Scottie to divorce and take separate homes so she, Jackson, and their twin baby daughters would be deemed poor enough to qualify for Medicaid.

Based on assessment of global quality, 18.9% of the reviews were deemed poor or inadequate.

A household is deemed poor if its deprivations, duly weighted, add up to at least 33%.

"There is road kill along this path" — that is, hook-ups between musicians and brands that were deemed poor fits, inappropriate or overcommercialized.

The bureau's statistics for the 50 states and the District of Columbia show that 9.2percentt of families were deemed poor in 2000, a slight improvement from 10percentt in 1989.

They are jealous of the favour Mrs Gandhi shows him; his political instincts are deemed poor; his economic views are to the right of many Congressmen.

Two-thirds of them are deemed poor, 40% or so are unemployed, and the same proportion of adults has HIV/AIDS.

UNESCO proposes the term "education-poor" for people with fewer than four years of schooling, much as people are deemed poor if their income falls below $2 a day.

Unemployment among Arabs nationwide is twice as high as among Jews; 66% of Arab children are deemed poor, compared with 24% of Jewish children.Few Jewish parties seem keen to reverse the trend; they largely avoid campaigning in Arab towns.

And he receives substantial benefits that the census bizarrely excludes from its calculations.Americans are deemed poor if their pre-tax income falls below a certain threshold for example, $20,614 for a family of four.