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Simple sentences
I'm poor.
I think being poor is nothing to be ashamed of.
He speaks poor French.
Tom was sad when he discovered that Mary was a gold digger and Mary was sad when she discovered that Tom was poor.
There were once upon a time a poor man and a rich woman.
The house was in poor condition.
The poor child was born deaf and dumb.
I used to be poor like you.
Tom is a poor student.
I used to be poor.
Poor personal hygiene can be a sign of depression.
If I truly care about the poor, then why on earth am I not a Communist? It is precisely because I care about the poor that I am not a Communist.
Poor is not the one who has too little, but the one who wants too much.
Blindness is responsible for a staggering toll of poor health, suffering, and loss of dignity and diminution in the quality of lives of people worldwide.
Your poor memory is due to poor listening habits.
The rich sometimes despise the poor.
The rich have troubles as well as the poor.
I prefer being poor to being rich.
Were I rich, I would help the poor.
The rich are not always happier than the poor.
Money and I are strangers; in other words, I am poor.
A poor school record will count against you when you look for a job.
The musician left his family poor.
My poor English cost me my job.
The rich are apt to look down upon the poor.
We see things differently, according to whether we are rich or poor.
We should not despise a man because he is poor.
I'm afraid my depth perception is very poor.
Farmers suffered crop losses from poor weather.
Movie subtitles
Meet my poor mother, buy her pretty clothes, some kalbi meat, and a gorgeous house.
However. only.. you, the poor soul who knows only the fact that you don't know anything.
You are a pathetic man who has been left behind by the times! The light has already turned poor for today. It will be fine for you to leave at first light tomorrow.
Poor oxygenation.
Of course you do, you poor unmarried thing.
Now I know what those poor bastards in the '90s felt like.
See, poor old Arthur had no living next of kin, and I knew him well.
Declan, you poor man.
Poor thing.
Poor crust.
Poor Mrs Antoine suffered far more than was necessary!
Those poor little Antoine lads.
She's still unravelling old sweaters from the charity box to knit up mittens for the poor.
Frankly, with her for an owner, it's entirely possible the poor creature took his own life.
When the poor girl was little, Arabs killed her parents before her eyes.
Poor girl.
Those poor men are bleeding from their eyes and ears.
My poor friend!
And I'd like to see you small and low and poor, far beneath me, reachable to my feet.
The dead are poor.
The driving force of this poor life was greed for fame and the fountain from which it was nourished was pain.
You sweet, poor one.
To my poor, lost bride!
The devils' companion can be young and beautiful, but she is more often old, poor and miserable.
Is it from the eternal fright of the pyre that you get drunk every night, you poor old woman of the Middle Ages?
This poor woman, also in a bewildered condition, does during her sleep just what she fears the most.
Poor little hysterical witch!
We no longer burn our old and poor.
The light has already turned poor for today.
Balduin, who is only a poor student, takes his leave.
The poor soul is my cousin.
News and current affairs
When the rich get less rich, the poor get poorer.
HONG KONG - A recent trip to Berlin brought back memories of an earlier visit in the summer of 1967, when I was a poor student who marveled at the Wall that would divide and devastate an entire society for another two decades.
All too often, the fight is about turf, rather than about the most effective way to speed help to the poor.
And it should not be a defensive policy of the sort that tends to concentrate on poor-quality land.
Helping the poor with today's technologies, while investing in future improved technologies, is the optimum division of labor.
NEW YORK - Every year, millions of people die from preventable and treatable diseases, especially in poor countries.
And many die simply because there are no cures or vaccines, because so little of the world's valuable research talent and limited resources is devoted to addressing the diseases of the poor.
Because the poor have so little money to spend, drug companies, under current arrangements, have little incentive to do research on the diseases that afflict them.
Polluters must pay, whether in rich or poor countries.
The truth, of course, is that aid is more stable than tax revenues in poor countries.
The answer is: very poor.
As the Stern report points out, as usual, the poor are the most vulnerable.
Poor countries will be hit harder, however.
The problem is that most of Africa is too poor to mobilize the methods of prevention (bed nets) and treatments (anti-malarial medicines) that could save millions of children every year.
Outrage about a professor who is not to be messed with is not the best way to discuss the plight of countless, poor, anonymous people, whom most of us find it too easy to ignore.
These pooled funds would enable farmers in poor countries to obtain the fertilizer, improved seed varieties, and small-scale irrigation equipment that they urgently need.
Poor countries would receive prompt and predictable financing for agricultural inputs from a single account, rather than from dozens of distinct and fragmented donors.
But it is also the result of poor coordination between governments as the world economy rebalances.
The single most important driver of deficit growth is weak tax revenues, owing to poor economic performance; the single best remedy would be to put America back to work.