Sentence examples for poor brethren from inspiring English sources

Edward Alleyn, a successful Shakespearean actor, bought the manor in 1605 and founded the College of God's Gift to provide education for "12 poor scholars" and almshouses for "6 poor brethren and 6 poor sisters".

By Berton Roueché The New Yorker, March 9 , 1946P. 56 REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Little Portion, the monastery of the Order of the Poor Brethren of St. Francis.

Little Portion is one of the smallest and perhaps the humblest of the nine male monastic societies of the American Episcopal Church, the Order of the Poor Brethren of St. Francis.

The Catalans have been making the same arguments that the Slovenes were making in the late 1980s: why should we pay for the poor brethren in the south?

Though both rich and poor countries have been working to get the talks back on track since then, a substantial reduction of the rich world's bloated farm subsidies is crucial to bringing their poorer brethren back into the fold.On the face of it, America now seems prepared to put its money where its mouth is.

In the context of the Blatter vote, the rich and powerful football nations, particularly in Europe, have been pitted against their poorer brethren.

Two issues for owners: whether big-market owners agree to share even more revenue with poorer brethren that use that money for Greinke-like contracts that bid up the cost for All-Stars, and whether small-market owners agree to mechanisms designed to enforce spending and not pocketing shared revenue.

"This means that we must become self-reliant as a matter of urgency," he wrote, "so that we will not only meet our own needs locally, but also those of our poor African brethren who have long depended on handouts from the rich churches of the Western World".

"One little boy explained the regulation to a friend by saying, 'You may have one book you want and one book you don't want".' There are tasty sociological morsels, like the library's recording how prospering Jews were moving to the Bronx and Queens, leaving behind their poorer Orthodox brethren.

"They don't think like us," white Africans would say of their black neighbors, or Israelis of Arabs, or upper-class Palestinians about their desperately poor refugee-camp brethren.

North Koreans now know that they are much poorer than their brethren in the South.