Sentence examples for poor rather than from inspiring English sources

"It's the working poor rather than the middle class".

How will we ensure the dividend reaches the poor rather than their corrupt or authoritarian rulers?

"Blackpool could end up clobbering people who are already rather poor, rather than the landlord".

In the best neighborhoods, the charity stores pointedly raise money to benefit the poor, rather than selling to the poor.

But just as with their counterparts in Britain, this conversation is overly fond of generalisations and stylised facts, and happier talking about the poor, rather than to them.

That's not where Jesse Marsch's team are right now, but for now their start to the season looks poor rather than cursed.

They were more rural than suburban, poorer rather than richer, and less rather than more religious.

"It's not just that it makes most individual citizens feel poorer rather than richer.

The pressure group has called for the target to be scrapped, with Oxley saying the DfID "should focus on using the billions already handed to it to genuinely help the world's poorest rather than chase this arbitrary target".

While practically no one would prefer that a community be poorer rather than richer, some experts wonder about the effects of such changes on the character of established middle-class communities.

A Beijing-based economist, Peng Dingding, reckons that the economy would be better stimulated if the extra money went to China's poorest, rather than to its relatively well-off bureaucrats.