Sentence examples for poor becoming from inspiring English sources

Both have emphasised that opting for the poor requires getting to know the poor, becoming friends with the poor … both have a great respect for the spirituality of the poor, particularly in everyday life," Ashley says.

There is scant comfort to be drawn from the fact that the rich are becoming spectacularly richer rather than the poor becoming poorer in absolute terms, although this is true for a sizeable minority, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.

Rule-making of this kind results in the poor becoming even more marginalised than they are at national level, because there is no democratic counterweight to corporate lobbying and no transparency, even after the fact, in regard to intergovernmental negotiations.

MIAMI — Gov. Rick Scott of Florida reversed himself on Wednesday and announced that he would expand his state's Medicaid program to cover the poor, becoming the latest — and, perhaps, most prominent — Republican critic of President Obama's health care law to decide to put it into effect.

During the heady days of the dot-com boom, the hope was that a coming era of telecommunications would help communities in the developing world like Sukababo narrow the digital divide between rich and poor, becoming more closely linked to the wider world.

i.e. attending masses and other religious activities, individual prayer, confession, meetings with a spiritual father, doing their cross, visiting monasteries, serving the poor, becoming a godfather or mother, following the major feasts, and so on.

The theme of Field's review is "how to prevent poor children becoming poor adults".

And if the poor were becoming poorer, were they buying less?

The paper examines the impact of Vietnam's main welfare programs on moving poor people out of poverty and protecting the non-poor from becoming poor.

"The value of mixing rich people and poor people," he says, "is real only if it contributes to the poor people becoming less poor, which is to say, if it decreases economic diversity".

Whichever of these applies, the overall outcome for London's social landscape will be the same: poorer families becoming poorer, or living in a more confined spaces, or in closer proximity to other families in poor areas.