Sentence examples for was both poor from inspiring English sources

That the goal was both poor (Leighton will regret it till the day he dies) and, for a moment, ambiguous (the puck just disappeared, bewitchedly) didn't alter the cold hard fact of it, for this Flyers fan.

The country is both poor and angry, a dangerous combination.

"It is a material that is both poor and noble".

And when a disease's victims are both poor and not very numerous that's a double whammy.

All claim to speak for the majority of Bolivians, who are both poor and of indigenous origin.

Anti-poverty efforts should be focused on the 60 or so countries — most of them in Africa — that are both poor and persistently slow-growing.

But, like any people who are both poor and enterprising, they put the bags of hardened concrete to another use rebuilding damaged roads.

Much more important reasons for not choosing a technical or science study are both poor school grades in Maths and Sciences and lack of interest in technological developments.

They compared North and South Korea, which were both poor in 1950 and under dictatorial regimes from the end of the Korean War until 1980.

PARIS — The Maldives and Mali, just a few letters apart on the United Nations roll call, are both poor Islamic states with few inhabitants scattered over wide, empty spaces.

The subsidy was allocated to families that were both poor and prepared to help themselves.