Sentence examples for very poor that from inspiring English sources

Schedules for the plane we awaited were speculative, and our stay in Haiti had given us some capacity to imitate what Stone had called, in "Damascus Gate," "the mystical patience of the very poor" — that was the phrase that had made me want to bring him to Haiti in the first place.

You can focus on the very poor, that's not my focus.

"You can focus on the very poor, that's not my focus," Mr. Romney says in the ad.

Nevertheless, the calibration was very poor, that is, the predictions did not correlate with the actual outcome across the entire range of risk.

On the basis of our decision tree prediction model with three prehospital variables (prehospital ROSC, initial shockable rhythm and witnessed arrest), children can be readily stratified into four groups after OHCA (good, moderately good, poor and very poor) that can help predict both 1-month survival and 1-month favorable neurological outcome.

This can serve the very poor that swept the new government to power.

Others have experimented with targeted subsidies to the very poorest that have helped reduce inequality in Latin America (see article).By introducing a more efficient, and progressive, social safety net, Asia's governments will go some way towards mitigating their growing income gaps.

The West was very poor at that moment, owing to the Depression.

"The background investigation at that point was really very, very poor, and that's when they started hiring these cops that shouldn't have been officers," Fernandez explained.

I also noticed that a lot of these people were very poor, and that had a big impact on their symptoms.

In a report in January, Moody's, a credit-rating agency, said that transparency in the banking sector was "very poor" and that "precise measurement (of banks' loan quality) is not easy".