Sentence examples for poor and bitter from inspiring English sources
Thus, most remained poor and bitter.
Other members fared less well, like Grigoriev, who died poor and bitter in France at age 53.
For Russian voters, many of them poor and bitter, how Mr. Putin handles such figures as Boris A. Berezovsky -- the most notorious of oligarchs -- will be a sign of the new leader's relationship to the Family, an almost mythical clique made up of rich businessmen, Yeltsin family members and Kremlin aides that has become the watchword for Russia's crippling crony capitalism.
Critics say that although the U.N., donors and international humanitarian agencies provide about a billion dollars a year for aid, they overlook the ethnic rifts, poor governance and bitter infighting in the Sudan People's Liberation Movement.
The first thing to note, Aslan says, is James's passionate concern for the poor and his bitter condemnation of the rich.
Ly Monysar, 41, is a broken man, poor and sick and bitter, his voice quavering as he tells of the loss of his entire family when he was 9.
This "Winter Retreat" bore similarities with the earlier retreat to Corunna, as it suffered from poor supplies, bitter weather and rearguard action, including one skirmish near the River Huebra, where the 43rd and 1/52nd lost 95 men.
Known as the Ambassador of the Poor, his bitter attacks on Egyptian and Arab leaders, sung and put to music by his blind oud-playing companion Sheikh Imam Eissa, cost him 18 years in prison.
Listen in on the reunion between two former shipmates a wealthy reformed criminal and a poor, bitter shipmate in the Sherlock Holmes thriller "The Gloria Scott": "Why, it's 30 year and more since I saw you last," sneers Hudson, the mate, strolling onto the expansive estate of his old rival.
Most were compromises, signed up to by cynical governments after long and bitter rows between rich and poor.
