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One day, when he was travelling the country disguised as a beggar, he stopped at the cottage of a poor ploughman to ask for food.

Tom was born to a poor family. He had two elder sisters and one younger sister. His mother supported the whole family alone by odd jobs.

You study as hard as you know how, but still you get a poor grade.

One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods door to door found that he only had one dime left.

What we have now is the best. He who can never be satisfied is a poor man, no matter how much he owns.

I put the plastics tube under my arm, too. Since she was such a great teacher, how can i be a poor student?

Great and wealthy as he was , he could not win the heart of the beautiful girl, who preferred a poor but young salesman .

However, the reunification of Germany drove home just how much it costs a rich capitalist country to absorb a poor Communist one.

As a Chinese , what do we think while such a poor country are eager to do us a great favour ? what can we do for our compatriots ?

Once upon a time there was a poor widow who lived with her two little girls in a cottage by the edge of a forest.

A rich gentleman taking a walk over his estate before breakfast came face to face with a poor man whom he did not know.

I remembered it had been a poor place before.

A poor substitute for food was this hide, just as it had been stripped from the starved horses of the cattle men six months back.

Although she was a poor widow, she would not suffer her children to be out at the heels and the elbows.

That this son should have been educated in the Soviet Union seems like a caricature of a poor novel.

"Historically, rental has been a bit of a poor relation, but we're in the process of turning that on its head, " Mr Calver says.

"Lori, it is just as easy to love a rich man as it is to love a poor man, " he said.

There was a poor but good little girl. She lived with her mother, and they often had nothing to eat.

I wondered if Cody knew that I was just a poor struggling CIO trying to hold together an email infrastructure with duct tape and PVC pipe.

Certainly, social acceptance seems like a poor entry for a list of reasons for beginning to smoke.

And say "excuse me" when you step on a poor person's toe, just as you say it to a rich one.

Bulleted text is often a poor mechanism for writing effective use cases.

Once upon a time, a poor traveler stopped under a tree to eat the boiled rice, which he had brought with him.

Born into a poor family , he had only two years of schooling.

Once upon a time, there lived a poor cowherd, Niulang, whose parents had died long before. He had to live together with his elder brother.

In judging researchers early in their career, the h-index seems to be a poor measure.

When I was a poor man and had a solicitor once, he got shut of me as quick as he could.

I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of good books to read than a king who did not love reading.

I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.

Thus the inventors and distributors of this calculator get off to a poor start, with a Very Hard instruction book and a slovenly phrase.

"People can earn up to US$15 a week, which isn't insignificant in a poor country like Burkina Faso, " says Andrea Micconi of LVIA.

As a young man, One day on his way home, he saw several laborer transporting a casket in a poor neighborhood.

The singer had a poor relationship with his father, whom he claimed had beaten him as a child as he pushed him as a singer and dancer.

In a poor and unchanging sys tem, like China of old, the path to advancement tends to be very narrow, rigid and well-defined.

I don't think much of him as a baseball player; he's a slow runner and a poor hitter.

Born into a poor family, he had no more than two years of schooling.

She was born into a poor family but made a success of her study and ended up as a scientist.

First he would send for a poor little mite, who would cry piteously for his mother.

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Born in a poor family in Russia, she helped her mother sell fruit on the street in her teens.

I used to complain that God was not fair to me to let me be born into a poor farmer's family, but now I will not think that way.

Once upon a time there was a poor widow who lived in a cottage with her only son Jack.

Andersen was born into a poor family, but ended up as one of the greatest writers of his time.

One of the Oxford team's best players was injured and was replaced by another who proved to be a poor substitute.

The poor writer is a visible writer, and a poor interaction designer looms with a clumsily visible presence in his software.

If any of you are planning to be on Interstate 95 this summer, and you see a poor guy's sanity lying there, could you please let me know?

Once upon a time there was a poor man . He had an orange tree in his garden . On the tree there were many oranges .

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

The daughter of a poor, black Baptist preacher, Marian Wright Edelman grew up in the racially segregated South.

QUESTION: I got a poor grade on my first academic paper because my instructor said I never was able to "make my point. "

The very anonymity of money then makes it a poor mechanism for guiding financiers' activities toward socially desirable ends.

Issuance activities of non-Exchange Fund paper slowed down in the year amid economic downturn and a poor external environment.

In fact, any one person, never money from a poor man, after hardship of effort, continued to earn a lot of a lot of money.

He saw himself in world historical terms. He appeared to have a poor sense of his own illness (part of a condition known as anosognosia).

He was a poor boy indeed, because his father died of an accident, and his mother remarried and couldn't look after him.

When a poor man saw her, he took his wife and children and gave her a wide berth.

TOKYO There was a time when Chinese leaders described their country as a poor, developing country. It was no false modesty.

The British Retail Consortium said it had been "a poor Christmas" .

After years of hard work, he grew from a poor young man from Austria into a movie superstar and then governor.

Historians are not sure who his father was. One story says he may have been James Hamilton, a poor businessman from Scotland.

Once upon a time there was a poor boy who lived in Denmark. His father, a shoemaker, had died, and his mother had married again.

Anderson was born into a poor family, but finally ended up as one of the greatest writers at the day.

You can see that conflict will break out. Kenya needs to understand what the real cost of a poor environment is.

Once upon a time there was a poor mother who lived alone with her son, Jack.

'He said he was a poor student and that I could just write it off, ' says Ms.

In exterior he resembled a butcher in a poor neighbourhood, and his eyes had a look of sleepy cunning.

However, sales are a poor indicator of a trader's performance as they move up and down roughly in line with the price of commodities.

It's believed that her crossed eyes could be the result of a poor diet when she was young - fat deposits may have developed behind her eyes.

Juyi Shoes is the sort of entrepreneurial company that has helped turn China from a poor rural country into a manufacturing powerhouse.

A ring at the door-bell, and a messenger asked him to visit a poor dying mother.

In other words, he is the quintessential insider, a man of gringo mannerisms and a representative of the rich in a poor country.

As a substitute for a narrow cage the new enclosures are excellent, but I should think they are a poor imitation of a life of liberty.

For a patient who already has a poor health, as they have observed, any additional mental attack may be enough to break him down.

The visitor walked away in scorn. The disciples were dismayed that their Master had been shown up in a poor light.

Excuse me, gentle lords and ladies. Do not let me disturb you. Only a poor old harmless English rector.

Now I would ask her, for love of me, to have another. It would be a poor tribute to my memory never to have a dog again.

If I had worked hard before, I would not have been a poor man now.

The mother has shown a poor sense of responsibility, often gallivanting off somewhere and leaving the children on their own.

The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-and-butter, and went down on one knee, 'I'm a poor man, your Majesty , ' he began.

Then in that land, there lived a poor man with a patch over one eye and a crutch to help him to walk.

On his way home, he always pass by this hut where a poor man named "John" who lives with his Father "David" .

Her dress was clean and well made , but it was the kind of dress which the daughter of a poor man might have worn.

He was a poor president, but he was the general Lincoln needed; he also wrote the greatest political memoir in American history.

Trying to convince the robbers that he was just a poor puppet and hadn't a penny in his pocket.

For what it is worth, I thought Mr Sorkin mumbled his way through a poor attempt to defend Mr Madoff in his closing argument.

Our hero of the game, a poor little dog was an alien intrusion into a monster, you can help it face up to it?

None of these things have a positive return. In fact, you could argue that each of them is a poor investment of your limited time.

As a poor guy, what I could do there was just to be a passing traveller, haha!

And when I tracked that received wisdom back to its source, I found that everything I had learned was just a poor educated guess .

Tariffs were a poor substitute for policy stimulus, but in an era of balanced budgets they were all that gold-standard countries had.

Yet, although Western leaders have done a poor job at explaining the war in Afghanistan to their voters, a defeat there would be a disaster.

It's a deep-seated thing. They used to say that if there is no shark-fin soup, the bride is marrying into a poor family.

He said later that he feared the woman, a poor peasant, would "be hard to deal with" should she seek compensation for her injuries.

Kino, a poor fisherman, has just found a very large and valuable pearl and is going to the nearest town to sell it.

and if I'm not to have my rum now I'm a poor old hulk on a lee shore, my blood'll be on you, Jim, and that Doctor swab; '

But he was such a poor student that his parents sent him to a strict boarding school, where the students were assigned cadet drills.

He was born in a poor family, but his grandparents took good care of him when he was young.

She was merely a poor teenager from the countryside, but she helped the French army gain an advantage over the British forces.

Iwould rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than making who did not love reading.

Abraham Lincoln was born into a poor family in Kentucky. He grew up in Indiana and later moved to Illinois.

The victims were more likely to have complications and a poor prognosis if there was no first aid CPR implementation.

Once upon a time, there was a poor fisherman who always dreamed of becoming rich. He wished to become a millionaire, and so did his wife.

It was a catastrophic evening where we lost a striker after 10 minutes and there was a penalty due to a poor decision by the referee.

His boast that he has a very rich father is quite apart from the fact that his father is just a poor farmer.

But if mistakenly arrested is a poor, it is possible to call on him eat food, to the point of economic compensation passed.

Better supervision of a mine with a poor safety record might have prevented the accident.

On his way to a certain city, a Samaritan man found a poor traveler lying on the road.

You may spend all day on these activities, so you feel as though you're working hard on your search, but they're a poor use of time.

The son of a poor tailor, he has come far from relatively humble beginnings to prosper in London's restaurant scene.

In the Macphails' there was nothing but a poor, worn bed with a ragged mosquito net, a rickety chair, and a washstand.

There is often a poor correlation between symptoms of reflux and measurable reflux as demonstrated by pH study.

Throw in all the other side shows - the rape charge, the demand to be traded - and Kobe was deemed to be a great player but a poor teammate.

BILL LAW: Amid Abiba in her home of her cousin is in a poor district of Islamabad. The house is a couple of rooms, very simply furnished.

A China with GDP-per-capita of just 26% that of the U. S. would be number one -- although it would still be a poor country.

If market-share analysis can be a poor guide to the likely effect of mergers on prices, what might be put in its place?

We might be assigned the part of a poor person, a cripple, a distinguished celebrity or public leader, or an ordinary private citizen.

Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

It is even better if you donate the money for far more important causes such as helping a poor student, or to help refugees.

Before going to the galleys, I was a poor peasant, with very little intelligence, a sort of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me.

I turned around, suddenly found a poor little rabbit, and its mouth, nose broken on both really poor.

The president says his own tax plan has brought relief to middle-income families, and has helped to turn around a poor economy.

The son of a poor farmer's widow, he had seen his mother put to such straits to make ends meet.

The interesting question is whether the same percentage increase in income means as much to a rich country as to a poor one.

This was on the scale of a dramatic human documentary story of an elite restaurant owner who had started out as a poor delivery boy.

As a little girl growing up in a poor Ohio neighborhood in the 1940's, Gloria Steinem dreamed of becoming a movie star or a dancer.

So far, he manage to select three students out, in one of them, there's a poor student.

Thus, in this circumstance of freedom vs. suppression, the opinion of the majority served as a poor guide to follow by the U. S. government.

That would have been a poor choice even in a reasonable recovery.

Jane short stature, there is no feminine beauty, but a poor teacher, he won the love, rochester lies in her unique personality and spirit.

Unlucky or not, they did not play a poor game, but the result was a disaster.

Thus we see that the amount of fines present in a soil is a poor indicator of what the soil behavior may be like.

Once upon a time there was a poor man who could no longer afford to keep his only son.

But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny.

He looked back at his own life, what a poor crop of secrets it had produced!

Think of a situation in which a replacement of an associate was made due to a poor hiring decision.

ONCE upon a time, not so many centuries ago, there was a poor continent. Its name was Europe.

A poor result for the MUD would have unleashed a power struggle in its ranks and might well have led to its disintegration.

However, such a chore is essential to preclude security breaches, errors, and a poor user experience.

Still, China would be a relatively poor country compared to the U. S. How can a poor country exercise power internationally?

He's just a poor soul coming to the house of the Lord, Hiro, Duo though, his own hands clenching.

David gave a poor account of himself in the boxing match.

Some wonder if it might help Greece, undermining the notion that Europe has a rich, well-run western half, and a poor, backward east.

Once upon a time, there was a poor fisherman who always dreamed of becoming rich.

Lula was one of eight children in a poor family from one of the remotest regions of Brazil.

Two seasons ago we were poor scores count at the end of the season, after then will be developed into a poor team to win.

I'm a poor little cat, plz, let me go home, I'll buy you as much cat food as you ask, plz! Have a heart!

It was late on a bitterly cold, snowy New Year's Eve. A poor little girl was wandering in the dark, cold streets.

This progressive disease has no treatment and a poor prognosis.

She came from a poor family, her father used to tell her: " Rich in spirit is truly rich, no matter rich or poor, should be elegant alive. "

She said that such a poor ah. Brother smiled helplessly.

And when Jacopo inquired of him, "What is the use of teaching all these things to a poor sailor like me? "

Investing in a girl's education can produce exponential rewards, but a poor country with uneducated women is likely to stay poor.

Many years later, the village was no longer rich, and the rice field was abandoned and unused. A poor farmer decided to plow the field.

I wonder if I had not made a poor decision.

Even so, China's insistence that it is a poor, developing nation is beginning to wear a little thin.

Committing things to memory can be a waste of brain power, not to mention a poor storage device as well.

This name came from a poor president, since the age of 15, on the McDonald's fast food restaurant to work Zhengdian pocket money.

Satanic rituals are often performed in a natural setting like this, but this fence is a poor altar.

Half of its seats are up for grabs, and a poor showing will make it harder for the DPJ to pass legislation.

But in the old days, Tianjin used to be a poor and backward city characteristic of semi-colonialism and semi-feudalism.

After having already visited several members, he arrived at the door of a poor, elderly widow. He rang.

If I had a poor experience at a hotel, this type of management response would do absolutely nothing for me.

The city officials decided to withdraw the offer because they felt that his controversial reputation made him a poor choice for the award.

The Bank of England is generally thought to have played a poor hand in its intervention in the panic of 1825.

A poor sleep cycle causes your body to create patterns that will enable you to handle the ongoing sleep of your go-go-go lifestyle.

Schoenberg died a poor man in 1951, and and his widow and three children barely survived on the copyright royalties from his music.

Even in 1945, about half of them were still villagers. It's the sort of proportion you would find in a poor African country today.

There was a girl whose father was a workman. They were a poor family.

Once upon a crossroad a poor Poet met a rich Stupid, and they conversed. And all that they said revealed but their discontent.

Will it be able to avoid a poor reception from the general public this time around?

I used to be a fisherman with a poor family that depended only on fishing.

If I drop ice cream on the neck of a poor washerwoman people will pity her, while if I drop it on a rich woman's neck they will laugh.

It was a poor consolation that France had been forced to admit its own bankruptcy in the same year.

He was born into a poor family at a time when David's race was possibly at its lowest level.

Outside, a few thousand supporters were pushed around by riot police, but this was a poor echo of the crowd seven years ago.

In West Bengal, a poor household will typically have three breadwinners doing seven occupations between them.

But in fact the mathematical concept of equality is a poor model for using the word equal to describe relations between things in the world.

He was just a poor worker, buried with a single pot.

But a college-educated black woman is no more likely to have a husband than a poor Caucasian woman with barely a high school diploma.

Once upon a time there was a poor woman who had a son who wanted very much to travel.

And David said, "Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king's son-in-law, since I am a poor man and have no reputation? "

"Ours is a poor nature, " continued the doctor. "Such a little thing knocks us down. "

I would rather be a poor man with plenty of books than a king who did not live reading.

In a TIME poll of 1, 000 adults nationwide, 52% said the government had done a poor job preparing for Katrina at all levels.

Is a strong second in search and MSN a poor third, whereas AOL does not compete in search at all .

To put it mildly, Mammaw's whipping her was an unusual reaction for a poor southern white woman in the 1920s.

As safe havens go, Japan would seem to be a poor choice.

A poor harvest brought on by bad weather was the original culprit, but with prices soaring, hoarding may also be responsible.

In Taiwan today, along with the stadium event, he gave a poor woman on the street $2, 400 as he was leaving his hotel.

He claims the lack of pornographic material subjects him to a "poor standard of living" and "both sexual and sensory deprivation. "

It would be a poor expert who could not give the date of a document within a decade or so.

Like a poor creature, I'm always in the corner waiting for your calling, longing for raising your attention.

but it's a poor defensive load as it does not penetrate deep enough to reach vial organ.

He said the students were being rejected because they were Hispanic and from a poor school.

They metastasize rapidly throughout the body and can cause tumours to grow in the liver and brain, resulting in a poor survival rate.

Still, impatience with all methods except those of natural science is a poor basis on which to identify those exceptions.

So doctor Blackwell opened an office in a poor part of the city to help people who lived under difficult conditions.

The starting point then must be whether it makes sense for a poor country to export so much capital.

He is nothing but a poor man.

Yun county is a poor county in Hubei province and used to be the target of aid in the Seven-Year Priority Poverty Alleviation Program.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Snobbish Western classicists who called Byzantium a poor substitute for ancient Greece may have missed the point.

Reciprocation of a criminal act as a form of justice is a poor system to live by indeed.

and do not show favouritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.

has a huge population and a poor economic foundation, nothing can be accomplished without good public order, political stability and unity.

Then the parents gave the money to a poor man, and after that the child was never seen again.

He had begun life as a poor boy, and made a fortune in the lumber business by hard work and honesty.

Kate told us that she was really looking forward to as a poor student in the famous university.

Are you just a poor innocent victim in what seems to be one huge conspiracy against you?

He's a poor white man in the South; his social status was just better than those colored people.

A fairy told them that she would be in love with a poor soldier.

David Cameron last week said that he wanted to put "rocket boosters" under the welfare system, which sounds like a poor scheme to me.

Born in 1911 to a poor family in a small town in Illinois, his father was a failed salesman who drank too much.

Even if the career was seen as a poor second to a good marriage for women, it came to be viewed as preferable to a poor marriage.

The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in.

One of the major factors for law offences is a poor social environment as the external cause that may trigger off various forms of offences.

He said, "What can I do? im a poor man, and I cant get food for my wife and my children. "

"I must have a poor connection, " I apologized. "It sounded as though you said it was a bad book. "

You are forced to wait until it clears before you find a poor boy desperately trying to get away from the old woman's punishment.

I think this's bravery like a poor fool thinks . If I really have nothing to pull by , why am I saying this ?

Published in 1866, the work talks about Raskolnikov, a poor college student who kills a pawnbroker and moneylender for her money.

A poor profit report from Kraft Foods Inc. made the company the worst-performing member of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow average.

If it takes you 100 hours to earn $2000, then buying a $2000 pair of shoes would likely be a poor trade.

For budgetary reasons, the redevelopment of these systems from scratch can be a poor option.

Watteau was careless in matters of material technique and many of his paintings are in consequence in a poor state of preservation.

Better [is] a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

I'm a poor , miserable, forlorn drudge ; I shall only drag you down with me .

Hazrat Ali is from a poor farming family in Swat. He joined the Taliban a year ago, when he was 13.

I'd heard from my grandfather that his mother was a poor sleeper.

The Suns are a poor defensive team, but we are just GIVING them steals. We need to sharpen up the ball control.

Local media accused officials of endorsing them as a means of promoting tourism in a poor region.

It tells a story how a teacher in a poor area worked hard to stop any child from dropping out of school.

Then there are those who absolutely hate them, believing them to be unwieldy and a poor substitute for a meeting.

How could I get close to you? You were Lisa while I was a poor ignored puppy.

The tramp, a poor and homeless man with a moustache, wore large trousers, worn out shoes and a small round black hat.

This stately tribute of respect to a poor girl despised and forsaken was so out of place, that the thing gave her a kind of horror.

Born in a poor family, Nadia had only two years of schooling.

However, PTFE has some properties that can make it a poor choice for a washer material.

Born in a poor family, he had only two years of schooling.

'An angel! Don't make me laugh! He's just a poor country boy, with holes in his shoes! '

A poor wretch on returning to his attic would find that his door had been opened, sometimes even forced, during his absence.

Mr Falwell was a quintessentially American type: a poor man who won fame and fortune by preaching the Word.

Even Maudgalyayana, with his amazing supernatural power, could not extinguish a lamp that had been offered by a poor woman with bodhichitta.

The girl was born to a poor family in the northern part of Bihar and was both the subject of wander and ridicule.

She assured the singer, whom she famously dubbed "The King of Pop, " that she left due to bad visibility, not a poor performance.

The summer tourist season is off to a poor start, with visitor numbers expected to fall by at least 8%.

But I worry if he has a poor game in his next England outing the fickle English fans will get on his back.

He came from a poor family and grew up in a poor area of Beijing .

Nor has Mr Yar'Adua helped himself by appointing a police chief with a poor reputation who previously headed the police contracts division.