Sentence examples for paupers like from inspiring English sources

"He told them it was not they, the bankers, who were losing money; it was paupers like him," he said.

The government subsequently set two ambitious targets as milestones on the journey: to have reduced the number of poor children by at least a quarter in 2004-05; and to have cut it by half in 2010-11.Child poverty, conjuring up images of Victorian paupers like Tiny Tim, is an emotive term for what is now a relative measure of income inequality rather than an absolute indicator of destitution.

I know it's Prada and it costs 1k for a pair of socks, but there are a lot of elements to this show that fashion paupers like you and I can work into our Ebay wardrobes, promise.

While millions of paupers are, like Chanda and her children, deprived of their modest ration, some Indian states are believed to have more BPL cards in circulation than people.

"We are leaving like thieves, like paupers," he said.

They can still have millions in the bank and feel like paupers.

We live off to one side, like paupers beside a railroad track".

His fabulous wealth made the greedy Burmese generals look like paupers.

"Pretending we want happiness, we go prospecting for misery, like paupers panning for gold".

"We both earn quite well," Mark says, "but we feel like paupers.

But the traditional powerhouse teams are not exactly standing like paupers with their noses up against the window.