Sentence examples for poor influential from inspiring English sources

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- From the glitzy shopping malls of upscale suburban Sandton, north of Johannesburg, to a trash-strewn corner in a crowded Soweto street, South Africans rich and poor, influential and jobless, black and white, united Friday to mourn the man they knew simply as "Tata," or father.

But if the United States could not do that on behalf of Haiti, poorer, less influential nations would have little chance of tracking down counterfeiters.

Some of them think that the poor are more influential, others that the main actors are particular individuals, not social groups.

While fabulously wealthy, Nigeria's government and elite shares very little with the masses, especially those in the north-east, traditionally the poorest and least influential part of the country.

By the time the Copenhagen conference rolled around, 112 of the participating countries had endorsed that 350 ppm goal, the majority of nations at the conference -- if, alas, the poorer and less influential ones.

And that means over a billion urban consumers (and some landless labourers), many of whom are politically influential in poor countries.

We found no evidence of poor model fit or influential observations after performing the following regression diagnostics: the Hosmer Lemeshow test, comparison of observed and predicted outcomes within exposure and covariate strata, examination of Pearson and deviance residual plots, and examination of leverage plots (Hosmer and Lemeshow 2000).

We will need the wisdom of political scientists, historians, economists, social scientists, international affairs experts and others like never before if we are to avoid ending up poorer, weaker and less influential.

It is a show that has been nine years in the making, taking Byrne to the Philippines and back researching Marcos's story, from her birth into the poorer side of an influential family, to her 11-day whirlwind romance and marriage to Ferdinand Marcos, who became president of the Philippines.

The BCS rankings are based on an unscientific and frankly silly formula that's skewed against smaller, poorer, and less-influential programs, and the BCS itself which is organizationally separate from the individual bowls is prickly, self-serving, and unaccountable.

Poor performance - as one influential doctor put it to me - has been "tolerated" for far too long.