| Children from deprived areas are more likely to suffer tooth decay than those from better-off backgrounds. |
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| Clashes between Dayaks and the economically better-off Madurese have occurred for many years in Borneo. |
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| They can say that they're not giving up on their goal of making the better-off pay their fair share in taxes. |
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| The better-off refuse payment for services they accept while their victims are so servile and acquiescent that they make no protest. |
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| If the President is truly worried about the federal coffers running dry he should stop cutting taxes for us better-off folk. |
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| Halprin appeared in the guise of a better-off bag lady with a substantial suitcase instead of shopping bags. |
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| For to breed the dog would be to cause a worse-off rather than a better-off individual to exist. |
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| But other southern states volunteering help, like Arkansas and Alabama, are not much better-off than their neighbours. |
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| Many lose their land and must become tenant farmers, sharecroppers, or wage-laborers for the better-off peasants who can afford fertilizers and some machinery. |
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| I know that this is changing, particularly among the better-off and better-educated, but many a Bulgarian father, it seems, is still rather like the paterfamilias of old. |
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| Both cities have a shortage of better-off areas within their boundaries. |
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| Impoverished children who receive Medicaid enjoy better health than children from marginally better-off families who do not qualify for the benefit. |
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| He studied and learnt alone, totally determined, aware of his hard work, but without envying the better-off. |
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| It examines both life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, and shows the global and regional gaps between the two, highlighting differences between the poor and the better-off everywhere. |
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| The poor harvest is bad enough to require even better-off households to buy considerably more grain than usual, as they failed to achieve their usual surplus of production over requirements. |
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| Most Dutch genre, however, depicted the life of the better-off, often in scenes of household life, but also in markets, barrack rooms, taverns, inns, and brothels. |
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| While more young people want to live in a new home, recent research suggests resistance to modern houses is strongest among older and better-off people. |
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| When TNS asked a sample of consumers to keep spending diaries, the incomings and outgoings of the very poorest roughly tallied but better-off consumers were spending up to seven times their declared incomes. |
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