Sentence examples for poor means from inspiring English sources

Moreover, concentrating benefits on the poor means more means-testing, and means-testing has often been regarded as humiliating and divisive.

Being poor means treating rich teams as petty cash dispensers.

Only a man who has been poor can really understand what being poor means," he said.

In countries like Liberia, greater food security for the rural poor means small-holder yields must go up.

Whether expensed or not, they are a poor means of aligning the interests of senior managers and shareholders.

In Silicon Valley, "poor" means a family of four scraping by on $53,100 a year or an individual earning less than $37,200, federal housing officials say.

Sainteus said voodoo's standing as the religion of the poor meant it was "misused and misunderstood".

Being poor meant I only was able to go to college because of a full financial-aid package to Rutgers University.

The authors caution that "the many laws on the books to protect the working poor mean little if they are not enforced".

Procedure indicator P7, "timely reporting", had a poor mean score (2.44±1.67) suggesting that quality reporting should be enhanced.

Of 154 outbreaks; eighteen indicators had a satisfactory mean score, indicator "updated guidelines" and "timely reporting" had a poor mean score (2.84±106 and 2.44±1.67, respectively).