"poverty" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Reorganized in 1977 When Mr. Koch, who campaigned in 1977 against "poverty pimps," reorganized the system, the Community Development Agency was put directly under the mayor's office.
- "They are poverty pimps," he said, explaining that they were fighting for programs that paid their salaries.
- Head dismissed the leaders of the petition to recall her as "poverty pimps" pursuing their own agendas.
- His allies saw him as a "charitable humanitarian friend of the homeless," but his enemies saw "a poverty pimp" who wanted to turn Over-the-Rhine into a "super ghetto."
- "He's a poverty pimp," he said of Mr. Thompson.
- Ms. Postal called Ms. Wilson a "poverty pimp."
- He came into office deriding "poverty pimps" and wresting control of poverty programs from neighborhood politicians.
- It's not as insulting as "poverty pimps," the memorable phrase used two decades ago by Mayor Edward I. Koch, but it carries some of the same connotations.
- Like the Bronx in the late 1970's, when "poverty pimps" and apathetic officials fiddled with fast-buck schemes while the fires raged.
- Just before the speech, he referred to some black political leaders as "race-hustling poverty pimps."
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