Sentence examples for means were poor from inspiring English sources

Phase II schools were built to meet immediate pressing needs, at a time the population, among them children, were afraid of concrete structures, and as local means were poor.

"It means being poor," Mr. Moon's wife said.

"In Zulu, 'walking next to our shoes' means being poor," Ms. Orlin explained.

When being a prisoner all too often means being poor, being black and being vulnerable due to metal health problems, we cannot afford to ignore deaths like Sarah Reed's.

And that in itself is part of the ever-growing strain to distance ourselves from what we say is cheap and unhealthy, but what we really mean is poor and ignorant.

But it means men are poor advocates, and as a result prostate cancer has been overlooked".

"All the nice people", as Spark put it in The Girls of Slender Means (1963), "were poor", and among them Stanford remained an important part of her life.

Being poor doesn't necessarily mean anything about you as people, it just means you're poor.

Readings below 50 mean more respondents said conditions were poor.

A budget does not mean you are poor, it simply means spending what you have on what you need.

MOST people have an inherent sense of what it means to be poor.