Sentence examples for poor past from inspiring English sources

It does to neighborhoods and cities what climate change is doing to the earth: driving out fragile and deeply rooted species, and pushing the poor past the brink.

They have been laying off teachers and school personnel by the tens of thousands, cutting services to the poor past the bone and falling far behind on needed public works.

He also proposed to "remove the directors' photographs from the executive suite walls" since the photos rewarded poor past performance and the bank was "not a country club or an English manor".

The report, issued by Barry L. Kluger, the authority's inspector general, found that the lack of accuracy in the evaluation process led to vendors' receiving contracts worth tens of millions of dollars despite poor past performance.

Investigators said Ms. Johnson had later acknowledged to them that she was unaware of the poor past performance of AEY, including the Beretta contract, when she awarded the company the Afghan bid.

In its new incarnation, Intiman has become that rare thing in the ego-driven, reputation-obsessed world of theater — a humble endeavor, as reflected in the scale of its shows; the decision by its trustees to accept responsibility for poor past management; and the contrite overtures by the theater's leaders to donors and grant-making foundations.

Its outcome – or rather its evolution – will be a fascinating window into a very conservative society that, for a variety of reasons, is still committed to expunging all traces of a poorer past.

Welsh club rugby has a distinguished history but a poor recent past — no Welsh team has ever won the Heineken Cup, which started in 1995.

I think I'd like to make a plea for the poor derided past historic tense … it must be due for a comeback.

The many Christians who rallied to the Jubilee 2000 campaign hoped that the forgiveness of poor countries' past debts would be similarly straightforward easier, indeed: were the poor not innocent?

Messi failed to make it 33 after firing a penalty over the bar in the 54th minute and Arturo Arzu Garciaia re-established the two-goal lead after volleying a poor clearance past the Barcelona goalkeeper, José Manuel Pinto.