Sentence examples for the tiny poor from inspiring English sources

Paul discovers a shantytown on the rim of Leisureland, where the tiny poor have established their own community; they strike him as less phony than the gated set among whom he resides, and he finds himself, pretty much by accident, becoming a dogsbody to Ngoc Lan Tran (Hong Chau), a young Vietnamese woman with a wooden leg.

We have stood in awe as this tiny, poor island has produced an illogical number of world-class athletes, from the myriad of talented baseball players to the Olympic boxers and runners.

The stakes in a tiny, poor, and autocratic island in a region of dysfunctional states are extremely low for the United States, if high for Cubans and for the people whose property Castro confiscated.

Even the small numbers, however, are a major headache for tiny, poor Central American countries.

Bhutan is a tiny, poor, once-isolated Himalayan nation well into the process of moving from monarchy to democracy and opening to the world.

"No. 1 was, Cuba is a tiny, poor country that poses no genuine threat to the United States.

Orinoca, a tiny, poor village in south-west Bolivia, is an unlikely home for the monolithic Museum of the Democratic and Cultural Revolution.

GOOD news is scarce in tiny, poor Moldova.

Tiny, poor, coup-prone Guinea-Bissau has been branded Africa's first "narco-state".

This may sound like an advanced western country rather than a tiny, poor African state.

The West Bank is cut into three parts by checkpoints and permits; Gazan men under 30 are virtually unable to leave their tiny, poor and overcrowded territory.