Sentence examples for poor held from inspiring English sources

With nearly half the vote counted late Friday night, the Kenyan election commission said Raila Odinga, a flamboyant politician and businessman campaigning as champion of the poor, held a sizable lead of 57percentt of the vote, compared with 39percentt for Mwai Kibaki, the incumbent president who is known for bolstering Kenya's economy but favoring his own tribe.

This is a comment to the forthcoming presentation of IEA's proposition for a new architecture for financing universal modern energy access to be presented at the conference 'Energy for all Financing access for the poor' held in Oslo in October 2011.

What has frustrated those who want to see India continue its economic gains is that the leftist parties in the current coalition government have, in the name of protecting the poor, held up the very economic development likely to create jobs for them.

When a fleet of Hyundai bulldozers arrived to begin the work, in 2014, environmentalists and residents of the area, most of them poor, held demonstrations against the government of the President at the time, Park Geun-hye.

He spoke fervently about his efforts to expand health care coverage for the poor, holding it up as one of his proudest accomplishments.

They say more than 80 percent of those living in poverty in Japan are part of the so-called working poor, holding low-wage, temporary jobs with no security and few benefits.

This well off middle class has the spending power and SA's millions of upwardly mobile poor hold tremendous buying potential.

I see that thou art poor: Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear As will disperse itself through all the veins That the life-weary taker may fall dead And that the trunk may be discharged of breath As violently as hasty powder fired Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.

Do the working poor hold different attitudes toward injury and childcare, or do they lack the means or time to take their child to a physician for care?

Due to the limited levels of car ownership in Chinese cities, this paper implies that the calculated job accessibility of the urban poor holds implications not only for urban employment but also for the level of social inequality for disadvantaged groups.

The zero rate could apply to any taxpayer, rich or poor, who held the asset in a Roth IRA.