Sentence examples for down to a poor from inspiring English sources

ABN's malaise was partly down to a poor international strategy.

Polls have shown that only one in ten academics on some campuses vote Republican: maybe they need to be made more "diverse".At the bottom, affirmative action comes down to a poor piece of social policy and a profoundly illiberal principle.

The reluctance of the FTSE 100 to make any concerted effort towards posting gains was mainly down to a poor start to the US trading session across the pond, where the Dow Jones commenced in the red and continued lower ahead of the corporate earnings season which gets underway after the close tonight.

In this study we implement these hypotheses in the ecosys model to simulate water table dynamics along a boreal transition zone (ecotone) in central Saskatchewan, Canada, extending from upland black spruce forest down to a poor forested fen.

But more ominously for Coach Senol Gunes, who must now prepare to face a Brazil in overdrive, some of the inexplicably missed kicks came down to nerves, a poor nose for the goal or simply an inability to finish.

The fact Declan Kidney's Ireland were still in sight was down to a crippling combination of poor execution and decision-making.

In essence, the debate can be boiled down to a philosophical question: do the poor have the right to live in areas they could not otherwise afford?

Speaking on Sport at Six on BBC Radio Stoke, he added: "We were a further £300,000 down due to a poor cup run.

She puts this down to a variety of factors, including the poor pay and prospects that affect all branches of science.

Dr Tom Webb, a marine ecologist at the University of Sheffield who worked on the census, says that many different methods are used to count marine species, but that it "often will come down to some poor bloke in a lab counting things" – molluscs in mud samples, plankton in seawater samples.

And it is market connections that make economic growth "trickle down" to the poor, points out Richard Webb, a social researcher and former central-bank governor.