Sentence examples for struck poor from inspiring English sources

But, on some estates, boroughs have struck poor deals with the private developers.

Critics have said that the government has repeatedly struck poor bargains over valuable assets.

A26 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, defending President Bush's record on racial issues, said the hurricane disaster that disproportionately struck poor blacks in New Orleans "gives us an opportunity" to rectify historic injustices.

While middle- and upper-class New Yorkers in places like the Rockaways and Red Hook certainly struggled in the aftermath of Sandy too, the storm struck poor communities harder.

All these exhibits may strike, poor innocent you as absolutely wonderful, but they don't fool us for a minute.

If the disease does get there, it will strike poor people hardest, he predicted, because many of them lack screens and air-conditioning.

Many people infected with dengue suffer only mild symptoms and do not know they are carrying it.Malaria (passed on by a different sort of mosquito) strikes poor, rural folk living near forests or swamps.

And the effects of these high concentrations of poverty were striking: poor students in Louisville, black and white, fared worse when they attended schools filled with other poor kids.

Or is donating old clothing just something that well-meaning people do reflexively to "help" whenever disaster strikes -- especially when it strikes poor people?

The loss will need to be made up somewhere, and it will likely strike poor people first with cuts to Medicaid, CHIP, the Earned Income Tax Credit, Head Start and housing.

Like a host of other diseases that only strike poor people living in poor countries (which are often grouped together under the almost self-fulfilling label of "Neglected Tropical Diseases," or NTDs), cholera is not something that people born and raised in wealthy countries spend much time thinking about.