Sentence examples for earth poor from inspiring English sources

New labor legislation was their first big win, decent working conditions and wages for those considered worthless at the time, the scum of the earth, poor, white English people making matches in death rooms.

There's a famous scene in The Odyssey where Odysseus visits the underworld and speaks to Achilles, who was killed in the Trojan War and tells him that he'd rather be someone's slave on earth, a poor farmer trying to eke out a miserable existence than be ruler of the underworld, so horrible was it to be among the dead.

He was the lamb, representing the meek of the earth, weak, poor and refusing to fight.

That tenderness of solidarity should extend not only to the earth's poor but to the earth herself.

Here in the more secular 21st century, Hell is more often the concern what we might make of life on earth with poor sewardship.

Puerto Natales felt much more down to earth, and poorer.

These women and their families represent roughly 1 billion of the earth's poorest people, for whom unintended pregnancies and unwanted births are an enormous burden.

Zambians remain in the "bottom billion" of the earth's poorest people — those whom Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general of the United Nations, declared would be the focus of development efforts for 2008.

In addition to providing shelter to half the world's terrestrial species and one billion of the earth's poorest people, forests such as Iwokrama act as pumps, drawing water from the Atlantic Ocean inland to the Amazon and Guiana Shield where they help to seed clouds and deliver moisture over vast distances.

In the case of the earth's poorest -- some three billion people living on less than $2 a day apiece -- we in the West blithely toss them the equivalent of a few fish but consistently fail to let them fish for themselves.

But the overarching problems burdening not only the world's poor, but the earth itself will remain undaunted and unchecked.