Sentence examples for poor compared with from inspiring English sources

The north, prosperous compared with Iraq's south and center, is poor compared with Western countries.

The 2000 census deemed half its families poor, compared with 9percentt nationwide.

This is one of the poorest areas of Soweto, which in turn is poor compared with the suburbs of Jo'burg.

Plenty of people in the Ritz probably feel relatively poor compared with the folk in the next suite.

On the surface, Britain's recent inflation performance also looks poor compared with its continental neighbours.

In 2007 83% of Urban Prep's freshmen were poor, compared with 87% in 2006.

In 2009 15.7% of Americans were poor, compared with 14.5% in the official measure (see chart).

The fact that the chances of contracting the disease are so much higher among the poorest of the poor compared with the least poor is really quite startling".

The study found that Dominicans are still among the poorest New Yorkers, with 32percentt qualifying as poor compared with 19.1percentt for New Yorkers over all.

The turnout was poor compared with the 70-80% that the Election Commission had talked about beforehand.

In the 2010 census 28% of American Indians were poor, compared with 15% of the whole American population.