Sentence examples for keep a poor from inspiring English sources

President Clinton said today he would relax rules for food stamp eligibility so that owning a trusty old car will not keep a poor family from putting dinner on the table.

It said: "We see the current plan [prepared by the village] as yet another attempt to keep a poor, downtrodden population from advancing; from choosing between partial income and other resources; it is an attempt to prevent the Palestinian woman from breaking the cycle of poverty and depriving her of educational and professional opportunities.

Its response, released in October 2013, read, in part: "We see the current plan as yet another attempt to keep a poor, downtrodden population from advancing..

Performed a minor miracle to keep a very poor Sunderland side out of the Championship last season.

The best way to keep a country poor is to rob its children of their full developmental potential".

No doubt, in a vicious circle, those differences help keep poor countries poor.

Sick people find it hard to work, so the disease helps to keep poor countries poor.

Until we recognize and act on the structures that keep poor countries poor, talk about progress toward poverty-related goals is irrelevant.

As Kate Wiggans, from the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Munition Coalition (ICBL-CMC) says: "They keep poor people poor, decades after conflict".

It's a deliberate strategy: Weaponize the public disgust with "welfare" against other programs that might otherwise garner support, like helping the poor keep a roof over their heads or avoid dying for lack of health care. .

That "bottom billion" is extremely powerful and harnessing the energy and creativity of those billions of human beings can be used for either good, or misused by a greedy few to profit off the poor and keep a vicious cycle going.