Sentence examples for big poorer from inspiring English sources

But a couple of big poorer countries, notably China, have launched huge tree-planting schemes in a bid to prevent deforestation-related environmental disasters.

Turkey is big, poor and populous.

Muslims are poorer than average and are heavily present in the big, poor, northern states.

He failed to work out the details of fighting a campaign in a big poor country.

Turkey is big, poor, borders on the EU and is a potential source of many migrants.

India, another big poor-country emitter, has steadfastly pushed back against any binding targets for poor countries at all.

OUTSIDERS often have fixed ideas of Poland: a big, poor country with shambolic governments, dreadful roads and eccentric habits.

The fall in investment is especially stark (see chart).Growth above 6% may not sound bad, but for big, poor India losing momentum is costly.

Its big, poor South-East Asian neighbours would also be earning billions if they had been quicker to exploit their vast, untapped reserves of ores.

France's ruling UMP party is against, as is Nicolas Sarkozy, its freshly elected boss.The main French objection is that Turkey is big, poor and, above all, Muslim.

It is big, poor, famine-stricken, about half Christian and half Muslim, surrounded by enemies and full of heavily armed separatist factions.