(superl.) Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous.
(superl.) Necessary; requiste.
Example Sentences:
(1) SPUN surveillance may prove too costly to be practical for general application, but it can serve as a means to identify needy children and estimate the prevalence of undernutrition in specific high-risk populations.
(2) By failing to address some of the flaws before escalating the number of assessments, the government is in grave danger of undermining the principle of helping people into work, and risks failing the most needy into the bargain.
(3) For example, one of Price’s 2015 proposals would have transformed Medicaid into a state block grant, similar to what happened to welfare through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program in the 1990s.
(4) Spurr said the inspection recognised progress had been made at Pentonville despite the challenges inherent in running a large, old prison with a highly transient and needy population.
(5) But he's got needy eyes, like Luis Suarez Old Shep.
(6) Indeed, we have been reminded recently of the abject poverty that many have fallen into, needing to use food banks or choose between "eating and heating" and the need for charitable institutions to step forward and help the needy.
(7) Updated at 7.06pm GMT 7.02pm GMT We're watching a video explaining how Water.org is fighting the water crisis by using 'water credits' or loans to needy households who don't have a clean supply of water or functional toilet facilities.
(8) "Americans would like their president to be sick and needy," explains James Zogby, head of the Arab American Institute and executive member of the Democratic executive committee.
(9) So that rightwing free market ideologues can open up all those markets that the US have been whining to the World Trade Organisation about for decades; for some ideological principal that says people should pay less tax and privately fund only the services they need and want, and screw the collective community if they cannot afford to pay their insurance; that puts money in the pockets of the very richest in society, while the very poorest will be expected to step up or die out; that any public provision will not be on the basis of the most needy, but on the basis of who those in control consider to be the most deserving.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Peter Dutton overheard joking with Tony Abbott about rising sea levels – link to video “If there’s one thing that should be remembered about Peter Dutton’s week, it’s that this is the week that he masterminded the plan to bring 12,000 needy people to this country,” Abbott said in Canberra.
(11) We conclude by addressing the obvious need for research and the necessity for maintaining our ethical responsibility both in scientific inquiry and in the treatment of needy individuals.
(12) The question, therefore, is not whether such costs should be met, but how they can be met in a way that best maintains and preserves the health of the needy while apportioning this cost equitably over all sectors of the American economy.
(13) "Americans would like their president to be sick and needy," explains James Zogby , head of the Arab American Institute and executive member of the Democratic Executive Committee.
(14) The study also found that PWAs who qualify only through the medically needy provisions have much shorter enrollment and lower lifetime Medicaid expenditures than other PWAs on Medicaid.
(15) For many would-be claimants, Welfare had become a ragged system where, however deserving or needy, they weren't poor enough to qualify for benefits, or the cash involved was too small to bother claiming.
(16) As the government has been warned repeatedly, services such as libraries and roads will be cut almost to oblivion, even as the bar for receiving care is raised to the point where all but the most needy are excluded.
(17) Despite charities reporting that demand for help has rocketed as a result of economic hardship and welfare cuts, some councils spent more money setting up and administering their welfare schemes than they gave to needy applicants.
(18) No-one is going to say, ‘Oh, be a proper woman, shut up’ The NIHR report recommends that the government should provide “appropriate investment in active labour markets”, adequate benefits to the needy, suicide risk training for frontline staff in the NHS, social services and advice sector and that funding should be available to agencies in areas badly hit by the recession.
(19) I'm all for adding sparkle to political prose, but not when it means casting one side as a woman, which equals slutty or needy or wrong-headed, which equals nothing like a man.
(20) The need to collect this information has been linked to a state-wide effort to target city nutritionally needy elderly for home-delivered meals.
Poor
Definition:
(superl.) Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.
(superl.) So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.
(superl.) Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected
(superl.) Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.
(superl.) Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits.
(superl.) Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings.
(superl.) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil.
(superl.) Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture.
(superl.) Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night.
(superl.) Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse.
(superl.) Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt.
(superl.) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
(n.) A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
(2) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(3) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(4) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
(5) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
(6) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(7) Maybe the world economy goes tits up again, only this time we punish the rich instead of the poor.
(8) Poor radioresponders of glioblastoma with CEA should be reoperated.
(9) Poor lipophilicity and extremely low plasma concentrations impose severe constraints.
(10) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(11) Symptoms were poorly localized in all these IPS osteomyelitis patients.
(12) Prognosis of patients with these autonomic failures is poor.
(13) All patients in Stages I and II (5 out of 26) who developed metastases had poorly differentiated (histological Type III) tumours.
(14) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
(15) Patients were divided into two groups: poor outcome, defined by the death or a post-operative Karnofsky index less than or equal to 70 (n = 36), and good outcome defined by a Karnofsky index of 80 or more (n = 60).
(16) Improvement of its particularly poor prognosis requires therefore early screening based on reliable biological markers.
(17) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
(18) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(19) There were significant differences in the mean erythrocyte transketolase activity of the thiaminase excreting poor animals and the thiaminase free normal animals.
(20) In this material the ultrastructural details are very poorly preserved.