Sentence examples for was once poor from inspiring English sources
This wedge of land, stretching about 100km between Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin, was once poor dairy-farming country.In 1966 John Gladstones, a state agronomist, argued in a report that Margaret River's frost-free, Mediterranean climate and well-drained granite soils made it more suitable for wine and olives.
"He was once poor, he's ours, he belongs to the people," said Ivanete Santos Costa, 35, who was selling homemade tropical fruit shakes from a makeshift drink cart on the boulevard, her hair under a headscarf made from a Brazilian flag.
Failed states were once poor almost by definition.
Her employers in this small Punjabi village were once poor too, just like her.
Most rich countries were once poor and war-ravaged, but they eventually grew out of it.
As Edgar's father puts it, "It's much easier to be rich when your people were once poor".
Urban histories are replete with accounts of those who were once poor and quasi-outsiders, or modest middle classes, that gained ground – because cities have long accommodated extraordinary variety.
One of the many admirable things about this novel is that Theroux's affection for the country never slackens, even as he savages the lies, theft and thuggery of local leaders, and the iron-hearted do-goodery of foreign aid agencies, which have rendered those who were once poor but viable poorer, unhappier and more dependent than ever.
"There was once a poor farmer.
What was once a poor, authoritarian state has become a rich, authoritarian state.
