Sentence examples for mildly poor from inspiring English sources

When a secret Frank was settled upon, panellist Rob Beckett suggested it could be Anne Frank, which, though in mildly poor taste, made more sense than the actual answer: Frances Gumm, aka Judy Garland, aka no Frank at all.

They respected my autonomy, thought that bartending was an adventure almost as worthwhile as the Peace Corps, and believed that it was better to be mildly poor with an abundance of vacation time and the promise of great things than to be gainfully employed and disappointed.

Centrally dictated features of the program – namely predetermined funding allocations to districts and eligibility rules – combine with the decentralized selection process within districts to counteract this initially regressive application pattern and produce a program that is, like many other CDD programs, only mildly pro-poor.

Mildly electron-poor styrenes were productive, with the para-fluoro and para-chloro substrates surviving the reaction conditions and giving good yields of the corresponding methoxyazidated products 3 o and 3 p.

Although cleared by the Senate in 1991 of illegalities in his dealings on Keating's behalf, McCain was mildly rebuked for exercising "poor judgment".

I came from a family of white working poor -- mildly racist, but mostly indifferent to the oppression of the "Negroes".

I remember writing a very mildly critical review of a poor book by Richard Nixon and seeing it thrown in the bin on the grounds that my judgment was too strongly expressed.

Introduction Healthcare-associated meningitis is described as indolent, with poor symptomatology and mildly inflammatory biology [1].

Her short-term memory was only mildly impaired, but she exhibited poor emotional regulation, perseveration and a deficit in set-shifting.

The study in Chest magazine called dry air a possible contributing factor, and one of Dr. Cruickshank's co-authors, Dr. Richard Gorlin, said that the oxygen-poor environment could mildly affect an average person, but for those with marginal circulation problems, it could cause trouble.

Still, as Columbia University's Andrew Gelman points out, the really striking red-blue voting divide is among the affluent: High-income residents of red states are overwhelmingly Republican; high-income residents of blue states only mildly more Republican than their poorer neighbors.