His country is poor, so he wants aid.
Communication in your relationship is poor, so try washing up by hand and chatting.
The existing housing stock is poor, so people upgrade to modern homes as soon as they can afford them.
His jokes are undistinguished: he has an uncle whose English is poor, so the word Coke becomes cock.
"Sales in the US and Europe have decreased and demand is poor so yes, of course we are considering ways to address the situation".
"The infrastructure is poor, so is access to markets, quality of soil and climate, and the security situation is complex," says George Wachtenheim, the outgoing Colombia director of the United States Agency for International Development.
But the nation's disease tracking system is poor, so the lack of evidence of a contamination does not mean that no one has been sickened by the contaminated products.
It is poor, so has lots of scope for catch-up growth: GDP per person (at purchasing-power parity) was $5,500 in 2013, compared with $11,900 in China and $15,000 in Brazil.
"Our home village is poor, so for my wife to receive transfusions seemed like a kind of honor and a luxury," explained Mr. Shen, whose neat button-down shirt and slacks speak to his success.
EVEN the most inveterate gambler would not claim a right to win, but a well-known media commentator echoed the view of many would-be car owners in Beijing when he wrote recently: "Just as Deng Xiaoping once said it cannot be called socialism if everyone is poor, so too it cannot be called fair if one is unable to win the lottery".
Your company's engineering schedules are unpredictable and your engineering throughput is poor, so you ask your VP of engineering to fix the problem.
