Sentence examples for grant the poor from inspiring English sources

Meyer points out that by accelerating convergence we would grant the poor world a massive trade advantage.

The only humane thing to do, it would seem, is to grant the poor man those benefits.

Giving can also be dedicated to parks, zoos, public swimming pools and concert halls, all of which grant the poor a more equal standing as citizens.

In the following years Gustav III introduced a number of enlightened reforms: torture as an instrument of legal investigation was abolished; freedom of the press was granted; the poor law was amended; religious toleration was accorded; free trade was promoted; the navy was strengthened; and in 1777 a comprehensive currency reform was carried out.

If we grant that the poor tend to have refrigerators and air-conditioners and cell phones and are objectively better off than their medieval peers, there is still good reason to worry about the rich-poor gap.

The Montagnards favoured granting the poorer classes more political power, while the Girondins favoured a bourgeois republic and wanted to reduce the power of Paris over the course of the Revolution.

In America, the government provides loans for all, which students have to repay irrespective of their earnings, and grants for the poor.

He said it had built millions of homes, given many people access to water for the first time and provided more social grants to the poor and vulnerable: from 2.5 million in 1993 to 16 million today.

He lives with his wife, Harriet, in a modernised cottage in the middle of Debenham, Suffolk, opposite the Foresters' Hall, from where the eponymous friendly society once offered sick pay and funeral grants for the poor.

Teachers are being fired, Pell grants for the poor are being slashed, energy assistance for the needy is disappearing, other vital public services shriveling.

WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The World Bank is considering increasing cash grants for the poor in the Philippines after the island nation was hit by a devastating typhoon at the weekend.