Sentence examples for poor winner from inspiring English sources

"I'd rather be a poor winner than any kind of loser," he once acknowledged — or boasted.

He is Bangladesh's most famous son, known as the world's banker to the poor, winner in 2006 with the Grameen Bank of the Nobel peace prize, a tireless campaigner at global summits for microfinance and social enterprise who can count Hillary Clinton, Nicolas Sarkozy and Mary Robinson among his many friends.

The Americans are such poor winners".

The media focus on middle-class losers over the poor winners should surprise exactly no one.

None of the aforementioned people were musically interrupted, whereas the poor animation winner for Up was urged to get off very soon, as were the winners for foreign film, Germany's The White Ribbon and musical scoring for Up, plus Up in the Air writers Sheldon Turner and Jason Reitman.

His most recent book (with Bertram Silverman) was New Rich, New Poor, New Russia: Winners and Losers on the Russian Road to Capitalism.

Plus, this year's "playing off" song was the entirely unsubtle Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner, played miles too early for poor best director winner Alejandro González Iñárritu – and downright inappropriate when it came to Son of Saul's László Nemes.

Presenting some of those awards, the comedian Kathy Griffin got the biggest applause for mocking the multiplicity of awards — "best Hawaiian recording with two ukuleles," she said (in fact the category is best Hawaiian album) — as well as for making hay of the winners' poor attendance at the pretelecast event.

An estimate in 2004 of the impact of letting 16m more migrants into OECD economies suggested a global gain of $156 billion, or about 0.6% of world GDP not a large rise, but again the poor would be winners.Opening borders to let many more job-seekers go where they please would be radical, but it would not mean allowing criminals, drug-smugglers or terrorists to move freely between countries.

President Bush won 8percentt support among blacks in 2000, an usually poor performance for the winner in a presidential race, and he has been trying to increase his percentage ever since.

And these poor kids are the "winners" in a dysfunctional system that insists on viewing learning as a "race" with winners and losers, as all races require.