Sentence examples for poor led from inspiring English sources

Compassion for the poor led Florence to found seven different Funds the world over, defining her as an international philanthropist.

Brandeis lived at a time when enormous disparities between the rich and the poor led to violent labor unrest and ultimately to a reform movement.

This commitment to serving the poor led John Ronsvalle, who holds a doctorate in clinical psychology, to start looking at trends in the contributions made by members of a wide variety of Protestant denominations.

For example, "the urge to help the inner-city poor led to welfare programs in the 1960s that reduced the value of marriage, increased out-of-wedlock births, and weakened African American families," he suggests.

His interest in and desire to help Britain's growing numbers of poor led him into a close association with the poor working-class district of Whitechapel in East London, and his attempts to establish housing and libraries there were commemorated after his death by Toynbee Hall, a pioneering social settlement in East London.

Cretu grew up in a village with limited access to technology and the challenges he faced growing up poor led him to create "DigiKidz" - using digital technology to improve the educational system in high schools from rural areas in the Republic of Moldova.

Some argue that the stress of being poor leads people to smoke more and eat unwisely.

Corruption robs the poor, leads to misallocation of resources, destroys trust in government, and threatens to undermine the entire reconstruction effort.

The shows that have followed invariably have suffered because of the poor lead-ins from the games.

"In other countries, concerns about stagnant wages or the persistence of the working poor lead policy makers to introduce them".

There's no point in spelling out precisely which poor lead singer struggled all evening to find the note, with some catastrophic misses.