Sentence examples for built on poor from inspiring English sources

Cronulla's reputation, however, isn't solely built on poor player behaviour.

Indeed, your house may have been built on poor ground to begin with, in which case not even a new foundation will do: you have to scrap it entirely and start again somewhere else.

It is usually not clear whether a program failed because it was built on poor conceptual foundations or it lacked a theoretical framework to identify causal mechanisms or because it was poorly implemented [ 8, 11].

Typical subgrade stabilization applications are temporary haul roads or unpaved low-volume roads, but can also include paved roads built on poorer foundation materials.

He said that although it is technically possible to build on poor land, the cost of driving pilings down to bedrock to support buildings can make projects uneconomical.

Many problems followed in the two years after completion; the rigid concrete carriageway broke up, due to the road being built on a poor subbase with rigid concrete along a historically heavily mined route.

Such pacts can also help the poorer countries build on their competitive advantages, and increase their political commitment to an open economy, he said.

In 2009, the city was sued by a non-profit organisation for allegedly refusing to develop low-income housing on its west side, preferring it be built on the poorer east side.

The illicit trade in human organs is a multimillion-dollar business built on paying desperately poor people to extract their organs — mostly kidneys.

The defects and errors that led to the world's deadliest garment-industry accident include the swampy ground the Rana Plaza was built on, the "extremely poor quality" construction materials and the massive, vibrating equipment operating when the eight-story building collapsed, a committee appointed by Bangladesh's government has concluded.

I like to use a housing metaphor: just because your house looks good, and its rooms are comfortable and well-decorated, doesn't mean it isn't built on such a poor foundation that it may collapse if a heavyset guest so much as runs down the stairs.