Sentence examples for was poor enough from inspiring English sources

His family was poor enough that his mother, Esther, considered putting him up for adoption.

The family was poor enough that Sun would erase the old pencil notes from his school notebooks and reuse them multiple times.

Though he grew up middle class and had planned a costly wedding, Mr. Markoff, 23, was poor enough to have the court appoint him a lawyer after his arrest, according to a court document.

Federal mining officials said Friday that they believed the mine's safety record was poor enough to declare that it had a "pattern of violations," which would have allowed them to increase oversight and to shut the mine down every time a significant violation was found.

Nokia was poor enough at managing perceptions that senior management lost the right to manage.

"Being a vet was what I wanted to be, but I was poor enough in academics - I kept failing maths - so that didn't happen, but I'm happy enough now". No doubt some of that story will be told on Jump Girls, a two-part documentary being shown on television in Ireland in the run-up to March's Cheltenham Festival, in which Blackmore and other female National Hunt racing personalities feature.

Most of the children were poor enough to receive discounted or free school lunches.

Nearly as many are poor enough to qualify for free or reduced-price lunches.

Some are poor enough to qualify for Medicaid, but have not enrolled.

All of the students at McKinley are poor enough to qualify for free lunch.

More than 80% of district students are poor enough to qualify for free breakfast and lunch.