eran pobres

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Ellos mismos eran pobres y perseguidos por las clases dominantes de Europa.	They were themselves poor and brutally persecuted by Europe's ruling powers.
Los granjeros que atendían vacas y recogían heno para el invierno, tampoco eran pobres allí.	The farmers around Franeker, who tended cows and gathered hay for the winter, were not poor either.
Los comerciantes de Franeker, en tierra plana a diez millas de Leewarden, en Frisia, no eran pobres.	The tradesmen and merchants of Franeker, on the flat land only ten miles from Leeuwarden in Friesland, were not poor.
¿Podemos considerar antagónicos los intereses de los pobres de siempre y los de quienes hasta ayer no eran pobres?	Can we consider the interests of the always poor antagonistic to those who were not poor as recently as yesterday?
Sin embargo, hay un 12% de hogares que no eran pobres en 1989 pero que integran el sector de la pobreza en 1994.	However, there are 12% of the households who were not poor in 1989 but who become poor in 1994.
Con frecuencia, los pobres no eran pobres en todo, sino que tenían riquezas comunitarias (y fiestas) que les hacían menos pobres.	The poor were often not poor in all: they had community and festive riches which made them less poor.
Los que perpetraron los atentados en Nueva York, Londres y Madrid no eran pobres, sino al contrario, eran personas de clase media y con estudios.	The perpetrators of the attacks in New York, London and Madrid were not poor; quite on the contrary, they were middle-class and highly educated.
En Costa Rica, diez por ciento menos eran pobres.	In Costa Rica, ten per cent fewer were poor.
En otras palabras, eran pobres en sodio y aluminio.	In other words they were poor in sodium and aluminium.
Millones de personas eran pobres y muchos de ellos estaban desempleados.	Millions of people were poor and many of them were unemployed.
Las siete personas decapitadas en Zabul eran pobres.	The seven people beheaded in Zabul were poor.
Estas personas eran pobres y tenían poca educación.	These people were poor and had had little education.
Me pareció que la calidad de los muebles eran pobres.	I thought the quality of the furnishings were poor.
Kasule es analfabeto porque sus padres eran pobres.	Kasule is a non-literate because his parents were poor.
Cuando nací, la mayoría de los países del mundo eran pobres.	When I was born, most countries in the world were poor.
Si antes del huracán estas comunidades eran pobres, ahora son paupérrimas.	If those communities were poor before the hurricane, they're destitute now.
Eso fue cuando eran pobres y se autocompadecían.	That's when they were poor and I felt sorry for them.
¿Tus padres eran pobres o no quisiste ir?	Were your parents too poor, or didn't you want to?
Estas personas ya eran pobres, pero hoy son aún más pobres.	These people were poor before. They are even poorer today.
Aunque eran pobres, criaron a siete hijos.	Though they were poor, they brought up seven children.