Sentence examples for be poor in from inspiring English sources

To be poor in a meritocracy implies failure.

"It's an advantage to be poor in one sense," he is quoted as saying.

It is hard to imagine a worse fate than to be poor in Calcutta.

It was a bad moment to be poor in New York City.

("To be poor, in the epick language, is only not to command the wealth of nations").

It is very possible to be poor in the 21st-century welfare state.

I found I can't do both … Britain has become so complex to be poor in.

"Well, it's better to be poor in peace than rich in war".

(It's hard not to conclude that it's better to be poor in Paris than in London).

("It's getting dangerous to be poor in this country," someone says. The rejoinder: "It always was").

"It is far better to be poor in Chicago than poor in DuPage," she said.