Sentence examples for pretty disadvantaged from inspiring English sources

"The 'miracle' was how this gutsy kind of city — post-industrial, pretty disadvantaged, with high unemployment and lots of health issues — should become a major center for the visual arts," Seona Reid, the director of the Glasgow School of Art, said peering across the road at the construction site for the school's new building, designed by Steven Holl and due to open in 2013.

She has lived in London where she spent time "working in pretty disadvantaged communities around the U.K. as an urban designer focused on community engagement".

If reports to the same are to be believed, the very wealthy in this nation are still at it, giving their millions to keep their candidates in power while the poor and disadvantaged are pretty much left to fend for themselves.

"It affects disadvantaged people disproportionately".

But if she had succeeded, some other parents would feel pretty sore knowing that their child was disadvantaged by another's fib.

Unfortunately, it's a pretty common pattern to label an economically disadvantaged, politically disenfranchised group as dumb.

"If you are a high-need school educating a very disadvantaged population, and half of your students are meeting standards, that's a pretty astounding rate," she said.

According to CBS New York, most of the students there are disadvantaged Latino kids from Harlem and the South Bronx, and they'll probably be pretty jazzed to get a visit from one of the most powerful human beings in the world, who also happens to be Latino.

Americans call such schools "disadvantaged".

I realized I was disadvantaged.

It was biomechanically disadvantaged.