Sentence examples for poor wonder from inspiring English sources

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And Myanmar's ordinary people, the poor, wonder when all these marvellous reforms they hear about will begin to improve their lives.

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But too many dirt-poor Lao wonder what is in it for them.

"Has a referee ever been substituted at half-time for a poor performance?" wonders Segun Akinkugbe.

"Is this further confirmation that Ibrahimovic only performs against poor teams?" wonders Joe Cavanagh.

"And to their dying day, our poor parents wondered where Tommy went wrong".

Other companies scrambling for work in a poor economy wondered: How had they qualified for such big jobs so fast?

"A lot of people in this area who thought she was for the working middle class, and the poor are wondering about that.

Food experts on Wednesday, as well as many representatives from poor countries, wondered whether these divided forces could add up to any kind of solution to a global conundrum: how to feed one billion hungry people.

That said, Israel were so poor you wondered how they ever managed to come to Wembley in second place in the group and how England could work themselves into such a state about having to beat them.

And she re-creates the comedy of tourism: the elegant Tokyo hooker, sent to Bob's room, who whips herself into incomprehensible ecstasies screaming "Lick my stockings!" (or is it, as poor Bob wonders, "Rip my stockings"?); the dark rooftop bar in which third-rate American lounge acts knock themselves out to keep the guests from falling into a stupor.

And there is no doubt that increasing the education and skills of children who grow up poor does wonders for their future economic prospects, and the economic success of our entire society.

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