Sentence examples for devoted to the poor from inspiring English sources

Podestá was devoted to the poor and the victims of successive military régimes in his homeland.

Since so many city services are devoted to the poor, the budget will be balanced on their backs almost by definition.

Meanwhile, the archbishop, a man devoted to the poor, a man whose shyness sometimes caused him to stutter, had been indecorously pitched from his balcony.

Among the more familiar are renderings of the elegant cafe dancer Jane Avril, with whom the artist was obsessed, and a very famous image of Aristide Bruant, a populist performer whose songs were devoted to the poor and underprivileged.

Echoing the beliefs of St. Francis, whose name he took, it called for a church devoted to the poor, a church that returned to its roots and the original healing ministry of Jesus.

He said he immediately thought of St Francis of Assisi, the Italian founder of the Franciscan Order who was devoted to the poor.

The Actors' Fund, a charitable organization devoted to the theatrical poor, buried him and paid his bills.

They also agreed that the next round of World Trade Organization talks would be devoted to the problems of poor countries.

In my opinion, if there is any personal profit involved, it should not be called microfinance, which should be totally devoted to the benefit of poor people.

But a consensus has been building among labor leaders and groups devoted to the problems of the poor that Mr. Pataki's medicine for the state is too bitter.

Bonwiller may be a vain, manipulative politician with a squalid personal life, but he is also one of the most liberal senators the nation has ever witnessed, doggedly devoted to the cause of the poor.