Sentence examples for claiming poverty from inspiring English sources

He returned several months later claiming poverty.

I don't understand people who voluntarily, without claiming poverty, let their children go uninsured.

"Especially if you are cutting taxes and claiming poverty," he added.

They savagely attack Labour's tax credits, oddly claiming poverty has nothing to do with actual income.

In case you are wondering, neither Mr. Musk nor his wife says he is claiming poverty because of the divorce.

Such firms might be offered bounties, it was reported, to hunt down welfare cheats claiming poverty while spending suspiciously large sums.

I won't claim poverty, but I will claim lower-middle class.

I recalled the columns she had written in which she had claimed poverty.

My children were dismissed from school early yesterday because of dangerously hot conditions, and this in a comfortable town too rich to claim poverty.

Ira A. Burnim, legal director of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, an advocacy group, said states should not be allowed to "claim poverty" as an excuse for not providing community care, but should try to get more money from Medicaid, state legislatures and other sources.

Chuck Bednarik, the Hall of Fame linebacker and center with the Philadelphia Eagles who played from 1949 to 1962, has said that although he does not claim poverty, he is angered that the N.F.L. promotes and markets its heritage but has traditionally done little to improve pension plans for its oldest retirees.