Sentence examples for poor stands from inspiring English sources

The government's own estimate of the poor stands at about 760,000.

"Not just a 'gingerbread' saint or a 'holy card' saint but a modern-day devoted daughter of the Church" whose work on behalf of the poor stands as "the hallmark of her life".

In a vote for, say, Member of Congress, a candidate who campaigns on the promise to make life "less easy" for the poor stands a pretty good chance of getting elected from one of those homogeneous districts in which poverty is an abstraction.

The inability to germinate prevents seedling emergence, resulting in poor stands, and subsequent growth of seedlings is hampered by cool air temperatures [ 1].

Being glued to the radio or internet is a poor stand-in for doing something, but perhaps it's why we tune in.

And the winner is... Truth be told, Monkey was a pretty poor stand-in for Ross, whose TV knowledge would have come in pretty handy for last night's quiz.

The notion that the poor stand to benefit from the return of grammar schools strikes me as quite palpable tosh and nonsense – and is very clearly refuted by the London experience".

His 25-minute pep talk may not have lived up to the "major speech" that Mr. Biden promised on Tuesday that he was going to deliver, but no matter what he said, he was likely to be seen as a poor stand-in for his boss.

He became a poor stand-up comic, was booed off stage for being drunk, had many drug convictions, was shouted down by Zeta-Jones when he told an audience she was Scottish (she's Welsh), and was jailed for disrupting an airline flight.

Mr. Weiner, an artist who grew up in the Bronx and lives in the West Village, explains that the message refers to Manhattan's symmetrical grid street pattern and to the city's pedestrian democracy, where rich and poor stand and wait for the same traffic signals to change before crossing the street.

Bozoisky II had poor stand establishment and did not persist.