Sentence examples for poor instead of from inspiring English sources

Cameron and Osborne have deliberately embarked on the road to welfare as a cut-price safety net for the poor – instead of a badge of citizenship with a stake for all.

Rabbi Khaimov moved into the neighborhood in about 1997, saying he wanted to be with the poor, instead of the more successful Bukharan community flourishing in nearby Lefrak City.

Brown's problem is not that he is a ditherer but he is stubbornly supporting the privatisation of parts of the NHS, closing post offices, attacking the poor instead of the rich and pouring millions into the pockets of US health consultants.

Among his charges: sociologists ignore racism and the role of the state in creating ghettos; they offer sanitized portraits of the urban poor instead of rigorous analysis of the reasons for their plight; and, worse, their work ends up providing unwitting legitimacy to regressive policies on race and poverty.

The passions that have been swirling around his program, which among other things gives a break in college admissions to the poor instead of minorities, broke out in a historic theater in downtown Miami today, where 1,700 protesters filled the seats in the orchestra and balcony and hundreds more circled the block waiting their turn to get in.

The Arkansas option - using federal dollars to buy private insurance for the poor instead of expanding Medicaid, will be attractive to some of these remaining hold-out governors.

Anyway, the column makes the argument that families could just opt to be "a bit poorer" instead of having two working parents.

What happens when hundreds of millions of Chinese start feeling poorer instead of richer for the first time in three decades?

But in the streets of Budapest protesters said the measures devised by EU leaders would make workers in Europe poorer instead of leading economies out of the crisis.

And when we do dodge ruin, as the East End of Long Island mostly did this time around (but poor mid-island and poor New Jersey), instead of learning anything we double down on the dare, muttering a little louder, "We are all so doomed," as if that will take the sting out of our own lie: that we will somehow get away with it, by the hair of our chinny-chin-chin.

Maybe I will support my colleagues when outcomes are poor - instead of demanding why a box wasn't ticked.