Sentence examples for poor to serve from inspiring English sources

In addition, there were 18 centuries of knights men wealthy enough to afford a horse for cavalry service and five other centuries, one of which comprised the proletarii, or landless people too poor to serve in the army.

It's a poor way to serve a cultural industry that is worth $50bn a year to Australia's economy.

Two loose errors from the Argentine opened the door for Gasquet, who broke with a flowing backhand down the line, but the advantage was handed straight back with a poor attempt to serve out the set.

There is a poor person to serve as evidence for most anything.

James Bowdoin, his principal opponent, was cast by Hancock's supporters as unpatriotic, citing among other things his refusal (which was due to poor health) to serve in the First Continental Congress.

He traveled to the poorest villages to serve the neediest and now he has recognized his errors".

The recruits were coming from some of Egypt's poorest villages to serve in one of the worst jobs of the security forces, as troops in an antiriot force usually deployed against protesters.

His schemes for redistributing farms had been consistently reckless, illegal, and destructive, each bringing greater suffering than the last to the rural poor it purported to serve.

The world is facing an environmental crisis and a gross inequality crisis, driven in part by this monetary system, which demands expanding consumption of the environment and a transfer of wealth from poor to rich, to serve interest payments.

"I don't understand why these poor seniors have to serve the real sentence.

She founded this "refuge for the homeless, poor and dying" to serve impoverished railroad workers, miners, and their families.