Sentence examples for were already poor from inspiring English sources

They were already poor, but the occupation made them destitute.

Subsistence farmers and pastoralists who were already poor became that little bit poorer.

Employment prospects which were already poor before 1933 got worse afterwards.

Moreover, price cuts appear to have led to an immediate, sometimes brutal deterioration in conditions that were already poor.

When a disaster strikes, people who were already poor or oppressed — or who live far from the center of relief efforts — tend to suffer disproportionately.

China's new 0.5% contamination threshold for recycling caused a glut of plastics and other recyclables in Australia as the nation's facilities, which were already poor at sorting material, failed to meet the new standard.

Economic growth is already poor.

These are already poor countries, and Ebola has crushed whatever economic progress there was.

Critics say it would be unduly harsh on people who are already poor.

The refugees are streaming into Ramtha and Mafraq, areas in northern Jordan that are already poor.

Ebola, like many other diseases, mainly menaces those countries that are already poor and struggling.