Sentence examples for poor in the midst of from inspiring English sources
To be poor in the midst of affluence is to feel oneself both an outsider and, oddly, privileged: as a scholarship girl, I was a spy in the house of mirth.
Kinshasa, the capital, has some 15m inhabitants but no sewage system.Special report A ravenous dragon Iron rations The lucky country Mutual convenience No strings Intrepid explorers A large black cloud The perils of abundance Sources & acknowledgmentsReprintsDirt poor in the midst of plentyIn short, Congo has made very little of its natural resources.
Looking up at the surrounding mountains, with their forest and mineral resources, it is apparent to the visitor that these communities are resource-poor in the midst of wealth, in the sense that they have been denied access to and control of the resources that surround them.
Cities around the globe, whether rich or poor, are in the midst of a technology experiment.
Her husband, my grandfather, dying at the front; her parents, forced to evacuate Moscow despite her father's poor health; in the midst of all this, her pregnancy and the birth of my mother.
But it is the impoverished who are most vulnerable to crime, poor people living in the midst of poor criminals.
He had been going there since 1975, when he, Aeberhard and others established a hospital in Nabaa, a poor Shiite neighborhood, in the midst of the civil war.
The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll" is a rich portrait of a poor black family in the midst of the Depression.
These rural areas provide the country's booming cities with cheap, unorganized labor drawn from extremely poor peasant communities in the midst of their own social and environmental crises.
That's the 1931 Pulitzer Prize-winning Gershwin musical "Of Thee I Sing," which featured a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind that reflected the country's dissatisfaction with its leaders, including poor old Herbert Hoover, in the midst of the Great Depression.
The case for Diedrich is that the 15-year-old chain, just emerging from a few years of calamitous expansion and poor management, is in the midst of reinventing itself.
