Sentence examples for poor act from inspiring English sources
Cook, though, described the refusal of Mathews to recall Buttler as "a pretty poor act".
Alastair Cook, England's captain, described the incident as "a pretty poor act", adding, apparently without irony, "there is a line and I think that line was crossed tonight".
In West Bengal, a poor household will typically have three breadwinners doing seven occupations between them.It is almost an "item of faith" among development economists that the poor act rationally, however straitened their circumstances.
He even gave his legislation provocative names, like the "The War Is Making You Poor Act," which sought to reduce taxes by requiring the Defense Department to finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan within its relatively small annual budget.
But England skipper Alastair Cook said: "I thought it was a pretty poor act".
Free will is a belief that hurts the poor, acts to advantage the rich and powerful, and discriminates against the coloured, and it is crass not to recognize the unfair advantage the myth of free will may be giving to some segments of society, and very much at the expense of others.
The 1574 poor law act was modelled on the English act passed two years earlier; it limited relief to the deserving poor of the old, sick and infirm, imposing draconian punishments on a long list of "masterful beggars", including jugglers, palmisters and unlicensed tutors.
In 1847 the man who later became her husband, Sir William Gregory, an Irish landowner and member of parliament, introduced the Gregory Clause to the Poor Law Act, a major cause of suffering during the Great Famine.
In 1929, the Scottish Labour MP, and future secretary of state for health, Tom Johnston, claimed that the Poor Law Act of 1845 had granted the Scottish working class a legal right to state welfare, but this was explicitly denied to "able-bodied persons out of employment" and the Scottish poor law system continued to rely heavily on voluntary effort.
She used to say, "Well this is a very poor final act and I really don't want to be here any longer" – but she would say that while holding court in her chair with a glass of champagne in one hand and smoked salmon in the other, and she'd have a smile on her face.
