Sentence examples for sort of poor from inspiring English sources

But Mr Turnbull keeps trying to pretend he's some sort of poor man's Paul Keating.

What was neither fair nor true was the criticism I received inferring that I was the wrong sort of poor.

Riddiford Street in the suburb of Newtown is a sort of poor man's Cuba Street, and sees far fewer tourists.

Me: Really, this idea that climate change deniers are some sort of poor repressed group just doesn't stand up out here.

It was a sort of poor man's cabaret, and as soon as we'd ordered beers at the bar one of the hostesses, a heavy-legged blonde from Moldova, pulled up a stool behind us.

My introduction to black salsify came in Germany, where it is called schwarzwurzel (black root) and is served in autumn and winter as a sort of poor man's asparagus.

On the flip side, Floyd is up against a Patriots secondary that looked all sorts of poor against the Miami Dolphins, allowing the fifth-most fantasy points to the position in Week 1 (33.8).

"Only last week a charity helped to win a judicial review with profound consequences for prisoners' rehabilitation, by overturning the book ban in prisons," said Nandy, "These are the sorts of poor decisions judicial review ought to challenge".

The government is slashing the civil legal aid budget to all sorts of poor people on the very day that it emerges that it is paying out "several million pounds" to former detainees in Guantánamo Bay who allege British complicity in torture overseas.

Graduate-student-poor is a sort of temporary poor that avoids much of the resource deprivation that accompanies being poor-poor.

Yet for that very reason, debt relief can also be a perversely efficient way of rewarding the worst sorts of poor-country governments, which may use their improved cash flow only to develop the president's Swiss bank account.