"poor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Ahmadinejad represents those who seek to distribute wealth to the poorest segments of society and create jobs in the short term.
- The poorest segment of the population, landless laborers, could not afford to marry and start families.
- A study on the subject shows that the poor segment constitutes roughly one third of the population, and the extremely poor make out 13% (2005 figures).
- The poorest segments of society lose the most to corruption, because they have the least financial possibilities than wealthier citizens.
- Polls further show that it is the poorer segments of the population that now see the crisis as a serious threat to their existence.
- We're pitting two very poor and very vulnerable segments of our society against each other.
- Populations were therefore always doomed to grow until distress was felt, at least by the poorer segment of the society.
- The sample was picked from telephone directories which did not cover the poorer segments of the electorate.
- It accepts without nuance what has become a new litany: that the aged are no longer the poorest segment of American society.
- Initially, it was middle class professionals, such as doctors and engineers, who emigrated; they were followed by the poorer segments of the community.
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