Sentence examples for basic living standards from inspiring English sources
At the heart of Philip Alston's special mission will be one question: can Americans enjoy fundamental human rights if they're unable to meet basic living standards?
It has been lobbying its local Tower Hamlets council and strategic health authority to introduce a minimum £6.50 an hour for staff to ensure they can meet basic living standards.
At the heart of his fact-finding tour will be a question that is causing increasing anxiety at a troubled time: is it possible, in one of the world's leading democracies, to enjoy fundamental human rights such as political participation or voting rights if you are unable to meet basic living standards, let alone engage, as Thomas Jefferson put it, in the pursuit of happiness?
They are in limbo, unable to reach Britain without risking their lives and denied even the most basic living standards by the French authorities.
First, it needs to recommit all governments to improving policies and investing more resources in improving basic living standards.
Whatever its past successes in maintaining basic living standards, today it is evident that Belarus cannot match its neighbours' dynamism.
But there was also an acceptance that basic living standard rises were neccessary in areas such as car use, which was seen as increasingly essential because of unreliable and costly public transport, and the need to travel further to access job opportunities.
Many universities in the region presently operate with overburdened and underpaid faculty who often resort to consultancies to maintain a basic living standard [ 2].
Based on that analysis, the study identified a generic package of policies that would minimize the negative effects of economic adjustment by protecting the basic incomes, living standards, health and nutrition of the poor or otherwise vulnerable [ 63] – priorities that have similarly been stressed in subsequent policy analyses.
Life expectancy in parts of China may now actually be falling, such is the collapse of basic health care.What is remarkable, however, is that on these basic measures of living standards China should have started from a base so much higher than India's.
