Sentence examples for had a poor relation from inspiring English sources

It occurred to him that he had a poor relation, a cousin Samuel, who owned a house that he might purchase.

Western Cameroons always has been a poor relation.

"Mental health, for too long, has been a poor relation of healthcare … but there is a genuine appetite for change".

One patient with shortening had a poor result, but there was no relation (r = 0.256) between shortening and the poor result (P = 0.241).

Our results are restricted by the fact that only 71%% of the residents actually attended school, thus it is likely that adolescents not attending school had a poorer subjective school relation.

The F− shows a significant positive correlation (r) with pH (r = 0.75) and HCO3 − (r = 0.64), while it has a poor positive relation with Ca2+ (r = 0.32).

Since 2010 he has headed Goldman's asset-management division, which has always been a poor relation of its other businesses.

Without market dominance, these returns will remain weak, because the firm's admired supply-chain systems will lack scale and global sourcing will offer few efficiencies.One explanation for the difference is that, to the firm's top executives at group headquarters in rural Arkansas, Wal-Mart International has always been a poor relation.

And parents have complained that the funding for living costs has become something of a poor relation.

DC has been something of a poor relation in the electrical world since it lost out to alternating current (AC) in a long-ago battle in which its champion Nikola Tesla (pictured, left) trounced Thomas Edison (right).

GQ's associate editor, Robert Johnston, believes the boom has been a long time coming: "It's bizarre that the men's market has been seen as such a poor relation compared to the women's.