Sentence examples for not really poor from inspiring English sources

But it doesn't matter: they can just pay up, because they're not really poor.

We may work a bit, mostly obey the law and not look a total mess, but then we are not really poor.

Morrison and other church figures were promoting a report published recently by the four churches accusing politicians and the media of promoting six myths about the poor: that they are lazy; are addicted to drink or drugs; are not really poor; cheat the system; have an easy life; and that they caused the deficit.

In their report (pdf), which was published earlier this year, the four churches accused politicians and the media of promoting six myths about the poor: that they are lazy; that they are addicted to drink or drugs; that they are not really poor; that they cheat the system; that they have an easy life; and that they caused the deficit.

At the weekend the Baptists, Methodists, the United Reform church and the Church of Scotland came out against the six myths routinely spread, by politicians, about the poor: that they are lazy, addicted to drink or drugs, not really poor, cheat the system, have an easy life, and that they caused the deficit.

Korytkowski asked the audience, however, to "remember that conventional therapy was not really poor control" but, rather, a mean level of 140 150 mg/dl.

"At home, growing up, we weren't really poor.

If you buy multi-packs of crisps, you aren't trying hard enough and if you stock up on leafy greens, oily fish etc then you get too much money and aren't really poor.

The poor who scrape and save and sacrifice and somehow manage it – that will only "prove" that they weren't really poor and didn't really need any support or help, or it will demonstrate the same sort of extravagance that impoverished them to begin with!

Or, I could stay home and luxuriate in a warm bath with a good book and a self-satisfied grin, pitying (but not really) those poor lemmings who rush through dinner to make their first or fifth or 20th appearance before their children's new crop of teachers.

To keep these distinctions conveniently arranged in one table, we recoded the individual performance scores from the four point scale to a two point scale, with the combination of 'No' and 'No, not really', indicating poor quality, versus 'On the whole, yes' and 'Yes'.