Sentence examples for was absolutely poor from inspiring English sources

"Our family was absolutely poor.

And I'm thinking, "Wow, even the dogs understand German and I can't!" Then back at the youth hostel (I was about 26 and was absolutely poor), I heard this German talking in his sleep and I thought, "They even dream in German".

The MED group, in our analysis, was absolutely poor-risk group because about two-thirds of patients were high-intermediate to high risk according to IPI.

The trend is in that direction but the gaps are still enormous, and within these countries there is huge inequality there are a number of large, middle income countries where the greater part of the population is absolutely poor and without even the most basic human needs.

It's absolutely poor and not acceptable.

There have been very few times when you can pick out a Celtic game and say they were absolutely poor.

"If we play like that against Celtic, we'll lose 10-0, simple as that because we were absolutely poor," added Butcher.

Most of those who ceased to be "absolutely poor" had "graduated" into the vulnerable group -- with incomes between $2 and $10 per day -- but others have moved even higher in the income distribution, joining the lower middle class.

Households with an income of 40percentt below the poverty line are classified as being absolutely poor and entitled to receive social benefits.

Some 77% of countries will be poorer in per capital income than otherwise, and some--5% of all countries and 43% of less-developed countries--will be absolutely poorer at the turn of the next century than they are today.

Even the ambiguous policy requirement of "maximum feasible participation" of the poor -- which was a watered-down version of SDS' slogan "let the people decide" and liberation theology's preferential option for the poor -- was absolutely rejected when it resulted in the election of poor people to the citizen advisory boards of Newark's war on poverty.