Sentence examples for poorer segment from inspiring English sources

From 1918, Slovakia was the poorer segment of the former Czechoslovakia.

It was a stinging humiliation for many Slovaks, who have spent centuries struggling to assert their own sense of nationhood, first as serfs under the Hungarian Kingdom in the 19th century and then as the poorer segment of the former Czechoslovakia.

We suppose that the market should be prepared for significant underperformance of loans and further increasing delinquencies as a result of the poorer segment being unable to repay debts because of stagnating wages, which means that moving down along the credit spectrum should be done with great caution.

I have no problem with inequality per se, as long as it is only short-lived and to the long-term benefit of the poorer segment of society.

The systematic identification and targeting of social programmes to this poorer segment of the population has never constituted an explicit policy in the social planning of the past.

In this study, lack of a bank saving account implied that the household belonged to the poorer segment of the study population and otherwise.

Public transport companies are favoured, both environmentally and for providing mobility to poorer segments of society.

In the rich world, obesity afflicts the poorer segments of society, because healthy foods are frequently more expensive.

"For millions of Afghans, the poorer segments of society, who spend up to 70percentt of their meager income on food, these food price rises put the basic necessities simply out of their reach," Mr. Banbury said.

It also showed that if all productive values are taken into account, relatively speaking forest lands represent more important livelihood assets for the poorer segments of households than the more well-off ones.

His power base rests on poorer segments of Iran's 70 million people.