Example sentences of "of the poorest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the poorest students might be assisted , but , as with legal aid , those just above the threshold would lose out . |
| 2 | Readers may be interested to know that the money given will go towards nutritional programmes in one of the poorest areas of Cairo . |
| 3 | The 20 per cent of the poorest households , who had claimed only 0.9 per cent of the ‘ original income ’ , rose through welfare benefits and other supplementary assistance to a ‘ final income ’ share of 9.0 per cent . |
| 4 | A film festival in one of the poorest countries in the world , Burkina Faso , celebrating the development of authentic , indigenous African cinema . |
| 5 | It can be grown on some of the poorest land in the world , which is totally unsuitable for conventional crops , and in regions where people have no work and are living in poverty . |
| 6 | Because of the political impasse over the past ten years Cambodia , one of the poorest countries in the world , has received no UN development aid , nor any bilateral or multilateral development aid from the UK . |
| 7 | Ending what remains of racism is eminently desirable , they say , but it will do little to improve the lot of the poorest blacks . |
| 8 | The study claims that the real incomes of the poorest 20% of the population fell by an average of £160 ( $275 ) in 1979–89 . |
| 9 | However , we would have provoked a huge political fracas and affected some of the poorest in the land . |
| 10 | The Treasury has responsibility for the health of the economy ; the Social Services Department has responsibility for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the country . |
| 11 | Notwithstanding such efforts , the smell of death was seldom absent for long from the dwellings of the poorest people . |
| 12 | When the Expo closes on October 12 , Seville and its surrounding region — still one of the poorest in Europe — will be left with new motorways and high-speed railways , a magnificent new central station , an airport ( the work of architect Rafael Moneo ) which outshines Madrid 's , and a technological infrastructure which will , it is hoped , lay the foundations of industrial growth and prosperity . |
| 13 | It has been argued , for example , that the majority of the 30,000 government employees in the reafforestation programme in two of the poorest regions of southern Italy are uneconomically employed . |
| 14 | We will press creditor countries to accept the Prime Minister 's proposal — the ‘ Trinidad Terms ’ — for a two-thirds reduction in the official debt of the poorest countries . |
| 15 | Labour will set the pace in pressing for international action to safeguard the ozone layer , to combat acid rain , to tackle the problem of global warming , to face up to the environmental needs of the poorest people of the world . |
| 16 | According to the House of Commons Social Security Committee Report — Low Income Statistics : Households Below Average Income , Tables 1988 – 23% of the poorest tenth of the population are pensioners . |
| 17 | The income of the poorest fifth of the population rose by 11 per cent ‘ in real terms ’ ( after allowing for inflation ) . |
| 18 | Ever since the Industrial Revolution created a mass urban society , the conditions of the poorest city dwellers have given rise to anxiety among the better off . |
| 19 | At the same time , the residents of the poorest areas have to suffer , in a way that is not true of those who live elsewhere , a growing fear of attack on themselves or their property . |
| 20 | However , these are for the most part of very low quality and certainly can not meet the needs of the poorest sectors . |
| 21 | Many of the poorest households are headed by women farmers who do not have cattle , an important source of wealth . |
| 22 | Their abolition increases costs , encourages an over-proliferation of uneconomic developments , stifles the mobility of the poorest and generally inhibits rational urban planning . |
| 23 | Thus , the abolition of the new-town development corporations in England in the late 1980s has strong implications for the mobility of the poorest in the cities : they will not find a great deal — if any — of non-owner-occupied housing beyond the conurbations . |
| 24 | He was a cultured , educated man , yet he lacked the simple faith of the poorest of the poor . |
| 25 | Helped by a battery of mutualistic protozoa , bacteria and fungi , they have mastered the nutritional and energetic problems of surviving in some of the poorest and most indigestible foodstuffs , from dead logs to soil humus . |
| 26 | In two decades remarkably little has been done to alleviate the conditions of some of the poorest city citizens , who personified the unacceptable face of the urban crisis , even if the terms of the debate itself have changed dramatically . |
| 27 | The two parcels of vines belonging to Beaumont-sur-Vesle are located on a small patch of flat ground , west of the road leading out of the village towards Verzenay and , a kilometre further on , adjoining the edge of some of the poorest vineyards of Verzenay . |
| 28 | Three months earlier , after one of the poorest seasons in their post-war history , Toulon were on their way to pool ‘ B ’ of the first division and rugby oblivion . |
| 29 | In his maiden speech in parliament , Jones referred to the consequences of living in ‘ one of the poorest districts of East London , where the housing problem was of a very intense character ’ ( SE 15 March 19 ) . |
| 30 | On being granted freedom of the guild in 1922 Llewellyn Davies singled out three campaigns , all of which came in the second half of her term of office when the guild was emerging as an influential body and could build upon the experience of the earlier struggles — the attempt to bring cooperation within the reach of the poorest , minimum wages for women employees in cooperative societies , and reforms in married women 's lives , in particular the inclusion of maternity benefit in the 1911 National Insurance Act ( Gaffin and Thoms 1983 ) . |