Sentence examples for poor taking from inspiring English sources

"He's been very astute on focusing on the everyday afflictions of the poor, taking a page from the evangelicals themselves".

Do we prefer a candidate, like Mayor-in-Waiting Rahm Emanuel or Gery Chico, who got rich taking advantage of political connections, or one like Carol Moseley Braun, who got poor taking advantage of political connections?

Mrs. Clinton and her allies accuse him of reducing subsidized housing for the poor, taking credit for the ideas of others and standing by while the Republican-controlled Congress slashed housing funds.

The author joined the ranks of the working poor, taking jobs as a waitress, a scrubwoman and a "Wal-Martian" to test the vaunted ideal of work as a ticket out of poverty; the ticket, she discovered, turns out to be for an unplanned round trip.

He said the chancellor's plans would do "so much damage" and added: "I don't know of a developed economy that wants to do something as rigidly ideological as he wants to do, to balance the books through public spending reductions alone, not tax, with one section, the working poor, taking the biggest hit.

The author joined the ranks of the working poor, taking jobs as waitress, scrubwoman and "Wal-Martian" to test the vaunted ideal of work as a ticket out of poverty; the ticket, she discovered, turns out to be for an unplanned round trip.

The poor takes care of the poor".

In fact, the poor took the brunt.

"The poor took down one another," she observes.

Father Bergoglio's commitment to the poor took a different form.

The poor took down one another, and the world's great, unequal cities soldiered on in relative peace".