left-behind

Example Sentences

• "At Sammy's wedding Marguerite looked around and saw the old relatives who had disappeared from sight once her father had moved to a better neighborhood. Now there they were again, the derelicts and left-behinds."
• "The political resurgence of Islamic fundamentalist parties in Middle Eastern countries (the Welfare Party in Turkey), the unions in India and unemployment in China are all signs that left-behinds are starting to challenge the winners."
• "He would refer to 'the dregs' of society in regard to those who were the left-behinds in Liverpool's impoverished areas - it was not an age of 'political correctness'."
• "Kenworthy's thesis does not contradict Frank's emphasis on the family-values propaganda blitz. It simply claims than an earlier shift to the right by the white working-class left-behinds preceded the values-blitz, and suggests that values carried on, or even exacerbated, their shift to the right."
• "Eribon could also have been talking about the left-behinds in any Western democracy."
• "Breakfast when they return is at the little kitchen table where Max has eaten thousands of meals, and every morning, without fail, the old man slides a ripped-off chunk of toast and a piece of banana to the dog at his feet, precisely the behavior experts at Guiding Eyes for the Blind had warned against because it can turn a service dog into a food hound who noses along restaurant tabletops in search of left-behinds."