Sentence examples for poor county from inspiring English sources

"But this is a poor county.

"Think of the poor county registrars.

I pity the poor county who have splashed out for Steve Smith".

She kept the post for 38 years, fighting and winning battles to stop banks from prejudicial lending practices and bringing phones and paved roads to her poor county.

The quake that hit the desperately poor county of Yushu and its population of about 280,000 was followed by another five large aftershocks within three hours, bringing down homes, schools and public buildings.

Li's father was a mid-ranking cadre in Anhui province and Li spent years labouring in the desperately poor county of Fengyang as a "sent-down youth" in the latter stages of the Cultural Revolution.

The economist Hernando de Soto has pointed out that in poor counties, many families live in shanty dwellings on slum land, to which no one has any title.

He said its expansion strategy was the equivalent of saying, "You're the only smart guy and those slaves in the poor counties are dumb guys".

"There are actual cases where poor counties didn't have the resources to put on a case to prove where a crime occurred".

It would put a terrible burden on children in poor counties.

In the last decade it is poor counties like Honduras, Myanmar, Nicaragua and Bangladesh and Thailand that have been most battered by the climate storm.