Sentence examples for were underprivileged from inspiring English sources

(a) "So many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway.

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway," she said, "so this is working very well for them" (news article, Sept. 7).

You were underprivileged!" Before I could correct her, I felt robbed of a response: to contradict her fantasy of privilege and struggle would be to challenge her reality, utterly.

Barbara Bush, the president's mother, earned no thanks from him for her remark that because many survivors "were underprivileged anyway", their Astrodome quarters are "working very well for them".

While the rest of Houston busily displayed its beneficent side reaping copious international praise in the process Barbara Bush looked around at the shell-shocked evacuees in the Astrodome and voiced her fear that they might stick around: "…so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them".

The chief victims of this were underprivileged children who could not rely on their parents to make up for the deficiencies of their schools.The success of advanced economies is increasingly dependent not on their physical capital but on their capacity to mobilise their citizens' brainpower.

Our man was "underprivileged".

His focus was underprivileged children living in substandard housing.

So I serve people who are underprivileged and oppressed.

"The people who are underprivileged are not articulate, less self-confident, they slip further.

Those people who do athletics in Botswana, their parents are underprivileged.