Sentence examples for poorest when he from inspiring English sources

His sweltering country of 15 million people just below the Sahara was one of the world's poorest when he seized power in 1987, and it remains so today, with a per capita income that is less than half the African average.

Wilson was pretty poor when he died.

The buying and selling, however, left Mr. Pataki land rich but cash poor when he came into office in 1995.

In some respects, Romanoff was fortunate, for without marring his princely imposture he could appear to be poor when he actually was poor.

"For those just tuning in, [Keller] thinks that it's gross that he has to look at the poors when he goes to work," tweeted another local.

The Catholic University has close ties with Pope Francis, who was a champion for the country's poor when he was still just Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires.

Amedeo Modigliani was high on hashish, wrecked by absinthe, and desperately poor when he painted this hymn to lust in 1917-18.

Mr. Ponce was poor when he moved to the United States from Mexico in 1989 and, after a few years of doing manual labor and saving money, he started a small tortilla-making vending business in New York.

The speaker of Parliament, Akbar Tanjung, was convicted of graft and corruption and sentenced to three years in prison for misusing $4.5 million intended to buy food for the poor when he was secretary of the cabinet in 1999.

Edwards said Tampa Bay had games this poor when he and Tony Dungy first got there and, after their first year, they got rid of some players who did no't fit what they wanted to do.

But no one can doubt his humility and concern for the poor: when he was appointed a cardinal in 2001 Bergoglio persuaded hundreds of Argentinians not to fly to Rome to celebrate with him but rather to donate to the poor the money they had raised for their airline tickets.