Sentence examples for pushing poor from inspiring English sources

"Micah talks about the city pushing black people out, but it's really about pushing poor people out".

NGOs accused them of wrecking the talks by pushing poor countries too far on the Singapore issues and giving too little on agriculture.

The limit on borrowing for living expenses is set far too low, pushing poor students towards pricey consumer debt to make ends meet.

"We want development that will improve the community but not at the expense of pushing poor people out," said Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter, a longtime Bronx advocate.

Former store managers speak with evident shame of stiffing workers out of overtime pay, busting up attempts to unionize, pushing poor families onto public assistance.

Informal talks on finance and the overall format of the deal were continuing yesterday, but the spokesman for the bloc of African countries warned about the perils of pushing poor countries to a cosmetic deal at any cost.

This is about land grabbing; pushing poorer people off their patch and out of London.

Those efforts, he would later say, had "pushed poor farmers into the Taliban's hands".

I had to push poor little Hank's body to the side to put this bed in".

Others barge into homes and use high-pressure tactics to push poor, semiliterate people into a private plan.

The booming economy has created jobs, and welfare reform has pushed poor, single mothers to fill them, often for the first time.