Sentence examples for poor to attend from inspiring English sources

Mr. Roh was too poor to attend college.

Too poor to attend university, he worked as a farmer, railway administrator, and freelance writer.

He said he graduated from Montclair High but was too poor to attend college.

And then there was UCLA, the people's film school, a world-renowned, state-funded university offering very low tuition rates for native Californians, which made it ideal for those who were simply too poor to attend USC or CalArts.

He has proposed a new, nuanced definition of poverty, something liberals have long supported, while starting a pilot program that offers cash incentives to the poor to attend school or job training, a policy that echoes the thinking of some conservative scholars.

Such drives have become so ingrained in American academia that New York University has invited 30 European university presidents -- all once well endowed by public funds, but lately cash poor -- to attend a February seminar on the alien topic of how to ask people for money.

Pell Grants that allow young people from poor families to attend college are already on the chopping block.

The foundation pays for gifted South African children from poor backgrounds to attend the country's top private schools.

He also founded the Happy Hairston Youth Foundation, which pays for children from poor families to attend private school.

- Requiring jobseekers with poor English to attend state-funded language course if they are claiming jobseekers allowance.

They were Representative Rick A. Lazio of Long Island, and Theodore J. Forstmann, who financed a program to allow poor children to attend private schools.