Sentence examples for overly poor from inspiring English sources

Having an overly poor self-image can be just as harmful as having an overly inflated self-image, if not more so.

During the campaign, Mr. Hollande spurned proposals that he said would be overly burdensome on poor and low-income families, like a temporary increase to the value-added tax on certain goods and services as favored by Mr. Sarkozy.

Paul Salveson, who runs the partnerships' national office, says that building a new small station in Germany costs as little £240,000; overly high standards, poor project management and other inefficiencies mean that a comparable project in Britain would cost £1.5m.Bringing in outside volunteers for cleaning and light maintenance work can also cut costs.

Based on reservoir characteristics, Guan and Niu (1995) divided tight sandstone gas reservoirs into three types: good (dense), moderate (overly dense), and poor (extremely dense).

The book received mixed reviews: some critics found it to be overly critical with poor humour, while others praised its tone and informativeness.

The more than 500-year exclusion of members of the African diaspora from social assimilation has been caused by structural barriers that joined racial discrimination with discrimination of the poor, overly represented among African descendants.

The contrast with MoMA's overly refined building, whose poor layout shortchanges the world's greatest collection of Modern art, is striking.

People have this misconception that these areas are desperately poor or overly agrarian – but some counties are more similar to Tier 4 or 5 cities, with lively manufacturing industries and substantial husbandry and farming operations.

It was not enough, said state officials, who re-examined the city's books in recent weeks and said they found a pattern of overly optimistic revenue estimates, poor and conflicting record-keeping and endless borrowing to make up for shortfalls.

MyTime is still a little clumsy to navigate on mobile, with overly hierarchical menus and poor browsing personalization.

There are other claims, too -- that there's an epidemic in malingering exacerbated by overly generous benefits, that poor screening and lax rules allow abled-bodied people to collect benefits, that there's a widespread "double-dipping" problem, and that loopholes allow people to collect benefits while working.