Sentence examples for told poor from inspiring English sources

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"Next time," she says she told poor, bedazzled Jeremy Irons.

(#50, Parents of a CF carrier; told would hear screening result within 4 weeks, but contacted 6 weeks later, on a Sunday, by a midwife saying 'problem with heel prick test' and their child retested that day at a weekend. Told poor sample, with not enough blood. Second sample was then lost).

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INTERNATIONAL experts tell poor countries to stick to stuff they are good at.

Politicians will argue that it is tantamount to telling poor countries to remain technologically backward.

Meanwhile, minister for public health Anna Soubry reckons she can tell poor people by their weight.

(Too true!) Q: The coalition is trying to tell poor people that higher education is not for them.

LADY GRANTHAM I should tell Mrs. Hughes we're going to be one less for dessert so she can tell poor Mrs. Patmore and Daisy.

He dismissed complaints from nonprofit groups in the United States, saying that Americans "telling poor countries what's good for them" was what used to be called "imperialism".

The British authorities have been subject to sustained criticism for failing to prosecute companies which pay kickbacks to foreign politicians and officials to win export orders, while telling poor countries to stamp out graft.

These days the anti-tax movement seems driven only by a carefully selective sentimentality -- one that weeps for children of multimillionaires who don't get their full inheritance, but tells poor mothers to go out and get a job.

The strategy made Ritterman out to be an upper-middle-class white man arrogantly telling poor and minority people that they shouldn't be able to make their own choices.

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