Sentence examples for blocked opportunities from inspiring English sources

These blocked opportunities tend to emerge at the boundaries of SSI: where old sectors overlap and new trajectories form.

Gabriel said repeating that phrase was not enough and the conservatives needed to create the conditions for Germany to be able to cope, adding that the conservatives had always blocked opportunities to do that.

Under Lyndon Johnson's Great Society in the 1960's, the root causes of crime and poverty were seen as embedded in legacies of racial oppression and "blocked opportunities," says Julilly Kohler-Hassistantassistant professor of history.

The respondents stated their managers (and some colleagues) blocked opportunities, felt threatened and were unsupportive.

Only chronic highly motivated offenders, which make up a small proportion of overall offenders, will seek out new crimes when faced with blocked opportunities from previous offending (Guerette 2009).

In her work she focuses specifically on reforming policies and practices that contribute to racial disparities, an over-reliance on incarceration and blocked opportunities, and finding alternatives to current policing practices in Baltimore.

The brick wall of blocked opportunity.

It means taking on our big social problems… ...entrenched poverty, blocked opportunity, the extremism that blights our communities.

This is the nightmare vision of the hundred yet-to-be-identified "sink estates" that David Cameron plans to transform with a £140m fund to "really get to grips with the deep social problems – the blocked opportunity, poor parenting, addiction and mental health problems – that mean so many are unable to fulfil their potential".

Millions of UK workers are stuck in the wrong job or working fewer hours than they would like, according to a report warning that this army of underemployed people are blocking opportunities for those outside the labour market.

His Doncaster Rovers Belles side won WSL 2 in May and should he prosper it is easy to envisage more WSL clubs following Liverpool's lead, and in effect blocking opportunities for women.