Sentence examples for poor draw from inspiring English sources

With stale air and flickering fluorescent lighting, the atmosphere was a poor draw against the above-ground brisk, bright, exciting Princeton community.

* No. 4 L.S.U. vs. No. 13 Iona The Gaels have what it takes to pull off an upset, but they received a poor draw.

Though below form from a poor draw last time, Roserrow (12.55) had previously been flourishing for a trainer, Andrew Balding, who has regularly targeted this race.

Enable is now top-priced at 7-2 for the Arc, from 5-1 overnight, while Sea Of Class, the narrow runner-up in last year's Arc from a poor draw, is a 7-1 chance.

In Redcar's 1.40 Caster Sugar should improve for her debut at Folkestone from a poor draw, form boosted by the horse one place behind her winning two nurseries since.

The well-backed Cai Shen, forced wide throughout from a poor draw, attempted to launch a challenge from the furlong pole but was unable to reach the impressive winner.

That Moses was highhanded, racist and contemptuous of the poor draws no argument even from the most ardent revisionists.

Mr Banerjee and Ms Duflo describe the "economic lives" of the poor, drawing on 13 household surveys from Côte d'Ivoire to Mexico.

His rallies may be no match for the tens of thousands that Lula, a revered champion of the poor, drew in Recife, capital of Pernambuco, a poor north-eastern state last week.

"I had a student with Asperger's who had bad handwriting, terrible spelling, poor drawing skills... he was terribly self-critical as soon as he put pen to paper," explains Stinson.

There is no mystery about the source: the waste comes almost entirely from the river's south side, from Ciudad Juárez, a typical Mexican border city that over the past decade has swollen with several million of the desperately poor, drawn north to answer some of the baser needs of the United States markets.