Sentence examples for poor mining from inspiring English sources

In the village of Bagega in Nigeria, 400 children died and thousands suffered significant health problems as the result of lead poisoning caused by poor mining practices.

But as residents in Carbon Hill, a poor mining enclave in northwest Alabama, begin the slow crawl back to normalcy, it is the loss of institutions, like churches and schools, that is truly overwhelming.

In an interview with John Harwood of The New York Times and CNBC, Mr. Reid — who has long emphasized his roots in a poor mining town — dismissed the notion that his Ritz-Carlton condominium was a palace.

WASHINGTON — The company that operates a West Virginia coal mine on Friday disputed a preliminary federal finding that poor mining practices and improper equipment maintenance led to an explosion that killed 29 miners last year.

The focus is on the period Van Gogh spent as a preacher among the poor mining communities of the Borinage, just south of Mons, with many of van Gogh's early drawings, copies of paintings by other artists, and letters written to his brother, Theo.

We went to see a new West End musical called "Spend Spend Spend," based on the true story of Viv Nicholson, a factory worker from a poor mining village in Yorkshire, who, in 1961, won a hundred and fifty-two thousand pounds, the largest-ever fortune in the British equivalent of the lottery, only to squander it all within three years...

The FF estimates that if 50,000 couples chose Fairtrade-certified gold wedding rings, £650,000 could be generated to help the poorest mining communities in the world transform their lives, health and working conditions and support community projects such as schools.

It is true the weakest must go first: the worst factory must be closed, the poorest mines must be laid by, and the worst ship must be laid up first; and then follow the next in degree; but the moment a little diminution of supply lessens the loss, a portion of the idle start afresh into competition.

The show really couldn't be set anywhere else because Justified is about how growing up in a poor white mining community puts its stamp on you.

By John O'Hara The New Yorker, May 2 , 1931P. 40 Character sketch of a small-town Polish girl who came from a poor Pennsylvania mining family.

The rest of the year, Oruro is just a poor unvisited mining town, with few recommendable sights, redeeming features, or hotels.