"they are clearly the best team in a league of desperately poor quality"

They are desperately poor, it was said, running out of food and fuel for heat in the coming winter.

Toward the end of his life, Clark was desperately poor.

The program includes aid for Brazil's 60 million desperately poor people.

Many of the hardest working, most responsible people in this country are desperately poor.

The people are desperately poor, but you have direct contact with them.

But the central government - struggling to provide for more than 250 million desperately poor citizens - has let the states go their own way.

In this desperately poor country of 5 million, 77 children were adopted by Americans last year.

This desperately poor Chicago suburb, wanting to change so much, took another name last month.

Inevitably, large numbers of women and girls are finding themselves in desperately poor health.