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people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
the urban poor need assistance
How To Use poor people In A Sentence
- In partisan Republican circles, the pursuit of voter fraud is code for suppressing the votes of minorities and poor people. Archive 2007-03-01
- We collected a bundle of old clothes to be given to poor people.
- I but stretched them up in the sun," she sniffled, "and we be poor people and have nothing. THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
- He came to believe that working people, poor people, put down and stepped upon, had to organize if they were going to clean up the slums, fight the corruption that exploited them, and get a handhold on the first rung of the ladder up and out. Bill Moyers: Saul Alinsky, Who?
- The Curé would follow the Queen as she collected this small tax for her poor people, a levy which often totaled as much as much as one hundred 'louis' and never less than fifty. Almsgiving of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette
- Many poor people gathered at the gate.
- Reducing the number of unplanned pregnancies and unwanted births requires far more than attempts at dissuading poor people from having sex.
- If an asylum-seeker turned up with his family I am sure they would be housed in far better accommodation than these poor people have to live in.
- Poor people were looked upon as deviants within society well before the 20th century.
- And this really is a pity, and this is a shame, because what does that mean for United Nations to expulse people who are fighting day after day at the local level to change what's happening, to try to defend the poor people, to defend the farmers, the indigenous people and so on? Democracy Now!