Example sentences of "from the poorest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poverty Research by the Institute of Fiscal Studies ( IFS ) published last week showed the Department of Social Security has removed more than one million people from the poorest category of the population — having an income less than half the average wage , by changing the way figures are calculated . |
| 2 | Latterly , Lima has been receiving more migrants from the poorest and remotest departments . |
| 3 | It is a notably hardy and thrifty breed , able to produce good milk yields from the poorest of fodder and an excellent smallholder 's cow , well suited to hill farms iii particular , light enough not to poach winter pastures and small enough to be tightly stocked . |
| 4 | The overwhelming majority of victims are from the poorest , most disadvantaged sectors of Indian society — members of Scheduled Castes ( or Dalits ) and Scheduled Tribes ( or Adivasis ) , tribal people in the northeast of India , migrant workers , landless labourers and others who are poor and underprivileged . |
| 5 | This impression of relative prosperity would be even more the case in physicians ' private offices , but these are unevenly distributed and are largely absent from the poorest parts of the city . |
| 6 | The evidence cited earlier shows that it is those from the poorest homes who are most likely to fall in either of these categories . |
| 7 | Those most likely to be caught in this new , downward flow are young people from the poorest homes . |
| 8 | This outcome of the YTS courses completes the process of marginalization to the fringes of society ; from the poorest homes , to the poorest school performances , to the greatest difficulty obtaining work , to placement on those training schemes least likely to lead to full-time paid employment . |
| 9 | In fact I knew nothing of his family life — only that he came from the poorest part of the town , a row of " yards " containing tumbledown cottages , some of them evacuated because of their condition . |
| 10 | That is an appalling situation , but it is made more appalling because it mainly affects students from the poorest backgrounds , those whose parents are on low incomes and who get no financial help from their parents because they can not afford to give it . |
| 11 | poll tax contribution required from the poorest . |
| 12 | Immediately after the first wave of evacuation had taken place there was a chorus of outrage from reception areas about some of the evacuees — evidently those from the poorest homes in inner-city areas — who were said to be filthy , verminous , incontinent , ungrateful and thoroughly ill-mannered . |
| 13 | Where information is adequate from the poorest nations it points to a close relationship between poverty , underdevelopment and the spread of AIDS . |
| 14 | The aggregate membership of 704,350 was 8 per cent of the population , but few of these were recruited from the poorest and most vulnerable class of rural labourers . |
| 15 | Growth in the richer regions will be assisted by the development of the poorer regions of Europe — just as , on a global scale , it is essential to end the ‘ reverse transfers ’ of wealth from the poorest to the richest countries of the world , if the world economy as a whole is to prosper . |
| 16 | Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background . |
| 17 | Liverpool Children 's Holiday Organisation , which takes children from the poorest families on Merseyside for breaks in the countryside , needs £30,000 to avoid making cuts next year . |