Sentence examples for poor preferred to from inspiring English sources

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As John Steinbeck (a kind of literary honorary fellow of the Frankfurt school) put it, in America, the poor preferred to look upon themselves as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires".

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As a result, the poor prefer to do business in cash.

He was shocked at the high incidence of death among mothers following birth, recording 36 deaths among 208 mothers in his first month working at Ward 1. Upon investigation, he learned that the death rate at Ward 2 was much lower and that poor women preferred to give birth in the streets rather than go to Ward 1.

The majority of resource-poor pastoralists (80%%) among the poor wealth category preferred to use rangelands for irrigated cultivation than livestock production.

Re "Weighing the True Costs and Benefits in a Matter of Life and Death" (Economic Scene column, Jan . 19: Robert H. Frank, taking issue with a recent column of mine in Slate ("Do the Poor Deserve Life Support?"), suggests that helping poor people in the ways poor people prefer to be helped "completely ignores moral emotions like sympathy and empathy".

Most Californians were either unaware of the problems (no minimum wage, no overtime, no collective bargaining rights, long hours, no medical care and poor working conditions) or preferred to ignore it.

Part of the rich-to-poor transfers will flow through a "Copenhagen Green Climate Fund", which some poor countries prefer to the World Bank.The process will, in theory, accelerate.

Asked if poor people "prefer to stay on welfare" or would "rather earn their own living," Americans by a large majority, 61%-36%, said they believed the poor would rather earn their own way.

Tories of all stripes, including Tory feminists, have always preferred to exclude poor people from their definition of "reality".

The German upset some critics by failing to travel to the Johnnie Walker Championship to protect his 10 spot in the qualifying table, but after a poor recent USPGA showing, he preferred to stay at home in Scottsdale, California working with his coach Gunther Kessler.

In Mozambique, Pfeiffer [ 38] found that poorer women with sick children preferred to use the prophets in the African Independent Churches (AIC) or charismatic churches instead of traditional healers as they didn't have to pay at the prophets.

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