Sentence examples for poor meaning from inspiring English sources

The screen's horizontal viewing angles are also poor, meaning it can't be read at an angle, and the odd, elongated aspect ratio makes the display elements look warped.

Sujeewa says that around half those on board were poor, meaning the remainder had paid above the odds for the cost of the boat.

Alongside Brazil, South Africa has the world's widest gap between rich and poor, meaning that there is a lot of stuff to steal and a lot of people for whom stealing is the most lucrative career option.

The World Bank estimates that in 1998 some 36% of the 500m people in Latin America and the Caribbean were poor (meaning that they lived on less than $2 per day), compared with 38% in 1989.

The most deteriorated bridges in Westchester tend to be small ones built more than 80 years ago, but many busy bridges have been identified as having deficiencies: The Saw Mill River Parkway bridge over the Cross County Parkway has a superstructure rated poor, meaning it has advanced deterioration.

For the truly poor, meaning they earn no more than $11,075 a year, there are government-financed legal aid agencies to turn to, 172 in all, but these offices are so overwhelmed that only one in five people who qualify for help actually gets any.

Although Clark had claims to tens of thousands of acres of land resulting from his military service and land speculation, he was "land-poor," meaning that he owned much land but lacked the means to make money from it.

"Either in absolute poverty or near-poor, meaning that with any [economic] shock, like with inflation, they will fall under the poverty line".

The region was one of China's poorest, meaning that prior growth did not prompt the investment.

The reason that underutilized species risk becoming exploited is that many of these lesser-known fish are "data-poor," meaning we don't know enough about their populations, or what their sustainable catch levels may be.

He said that it would "make everybody in America poorer," and added that we should focus, instead, on helping "poor people"—meaning, of course, poor people in America.