Sentence examples for massive poor from inspiring English sources

EL ALTO, the de facto capital of Bolivia's indigenous Indians, is a massive, poor semi-slum constructed from charmless cinder bricks.

There is a massive rich-poor gap and an even bigger gap between the regions.

Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, is particularly susceptible to storms because of massive deforestation and poor infrastructure.

In cases of massive hemoptysis or poor surgical performance, therapeutic options are limited [ 15– 18], and the prognosis is poor [ 5].

"A tiny tax on banks could make a massive difference to poor people".

Other complicating factors include massive erosion and poor soils, along with agricultural markets (where farmers ought to be able to buy supplies and sell their crops) that barely function.

"We are just preaching and do massive charity in poor areas.

After putting their two firms together, Citi's John Reed and Traveler's Sanford Weill paid themselves about $30 million each in 1998 despite Citigroup's massive layoffs and poor results.

And therefore, he proposed total modified Whipple's index (W tot) as an overall summary index of age reporting as follows: {W}_{mathrm{tot}}={displaystyle {sum}_{x=0}^9left|{W}_i-1right|} The summary index indicates no heaping if a value of 0 is obtained and a maximum value of 16 suggests massive heaping or poor quality of age reporting.

Clearly, if there were easy answers to these and other questions, there would be more social enterprises that have benefited massive numbers of poor.

This is especially true in the case of the extravagant infrastructure expenditures and massive evictions of poor Brazilians that paved the way for the World Cup.