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- adjective
comparative form ofpoor : morepoor
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Examples
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The weaker and less efficient he is, the poorer is his reward.
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The weaker and less efficient he is, the poorer is his reward.
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Given that those have a tendency to be located in poorer areas, the original post still has merit.
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However, with this, we have to recognise that women need to be paid more for the jobs that they are more likely to do, and that they also should have the same money as men for doing the same jobs, as more often than not the women who do make it into them top jobs actually get even less than women who are in poorer sectors in comparisons to men.
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Despite frequent roundups of alleged criminals who are said to be security threats - usually people living in poorer neighborhoods - government officials have been criticized for not doing enough.
In Pakistan, religious shrines step up security against attacks David Nakamura 2010
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A UN-sponsored study called The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity calculated the cost of losing nature at $2-5 trillion per year, predominantly in poorer parts of the world.
One-fifth of world's back-boned animals face extinction, study warns Jonathan Watts in Nagoya 2010
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As primitive as the scenes looked, I knew from journeys in poorer Indian states like Bihar and West Bengal that much progress had been made.
India’s New Face 2009
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I remember the fuss a number of years ago that a disproportionate number of heavily polluting industrial plants were in poorer neighborhoods.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » It’s Apparently Racist to Creat Jobs in Minority Neighborhoods 2009
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I know the disease remains a serious epidemic, especially in poorer communities, but I would have never put the number that high.
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First of all, having two or three different companies provide and administer three different services under the same contract inevitably results in poorer customer service.
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