Sentence examples for poor periphery from inspiring English sources

Some resent being assigned to this primary school on the poor periphery of São Luís.

The line has cut many commuters' journeys from the city's poor periphery by half an hour.

"We, as well as Slovakians, Polish, Hungarian or Estonians are facing a serious threat of becoming poor periphery of the European superstate," says Klaus regularly in his public speeches.

Theories abound over the motives of the participants of rolezihnos, gatherings organised via social networks in which tens, hundreds, and sometimes thousands of youngsters from São Paulo's poor periphery meet up in the city's shopping malls.

Pichação gangs often consist of about 10 members, mostly young men from São Paulo's poor periphery, who paint short phrases, like "Poetic Terrorism," or their own names, like "Zé." Their tags rarely carry explicit political statements.

A recent survey of the poor periphery of São Paulo by the Fernand Braudel Institute found that families are consuming goods and services that were once the preserve of the middle classes and the rich.

I rely on the empirical depth and precision of ethnographic analysis to engage the problems that mobilize people in the places I work: in the poor peripheries and elite neighborhoods of Sao Paulo, in a new religion on the outskirts of Brasilia, in Latino neighborhoods in California.

In transitional societies, it is common to find rural lifestyles co-existing in urban areas, particularly at the poor peripheries of cities that lack many basic services and where rural migrants settle and gradually become acculturated through the gradual adoption of modern habits and behaviours although remaining socially marginalized.

He built a web of aerial cable cars in the capital, La Paz, connecting the city's poorer periphery to places of employment.

As the overall health of Germany's economy and its fiscal position widen the rift with Europe's poorer periphery, Germans have a ready response.

Germany fears risk-sharing would become risk-shifting, and that any form of fiscal union would likewise turn into a "transfer union", with the rich core permanently subsidising the poorer periphery.