Sentence examples for poor gathered from inspiring English sources

Shake Tupperware dealie back and forth like panning for gold, then offer to some imaginary poor gathered round.

Labor unions and activists for the poor gathered the signatures to put the proposition on the ballot.

In the city where I was employed, the poor gathered on the busiest square in the middle of the city.

The appeal was evident even in Baku when 2,000 young men and women from poor families gathered in a government building for the mass wedding.

For example, a wealthy man described the city of Guanajuato during the typhus epidemic of 1714, when crowds of poor persons gathered in the street to beg for food: "Walking on the streets it was common to find people reduced almost to their bare skeletons walking in bands.

Cubans of all ages, black and white, rich and poor, can gather under one roof to share a simple pleasure.

The report, the first to collect all known data on child injuries worldwide, makes broad estimates because many poor countries gather few health statistics, and many children are hurt or killed without ever seeing a doctor.

If there is the hope here of a new life, a redeemed world, it is a desperate hope only half-believed in by the poor who gather in a stable to see one more child born into a cruel world.

Gleaning is a practice that dates back at least to Biblical times, with the Torah instructing farmers to leave a small corner of their field unharvested for the poor to gather.

In Leviticus God commanded that at harvest time the edges of the field were to be left for the poor to gather (Leviticus 19 9-10).

As millionaires rubbed elbows with the poor -- hundreds gathered under one tent -- how could I not think of the poor at home?