Sentence examples for combating problems from inspiring English sources

We recruited community members who set out to discover how these people had succeeded, in order to develop new ways of combating problems.

Got into judo again as a way of combating problems.

The role of wild foods in combating problems of food shortage is paramount.

According to Boston Chief Data Officer Andrew Therriault, "City governments have a direct impact on the lives of their residents every day, in areas ranging from the mundane (providing essential services such as trash pick-up and road repair) to the life-changing (combating problems such as substance abuse, homelessness, and sex trafficking).  .

Their goal was to create a prioritised list showing how money could best be spent combating these problems.

The plan, which won't take effect until 2015, is aimed at combating regional problems like acid rain, haze and smog.

Sounding an eerily similar note, a column published a few days later in the National Review Online stated, "We can do more to help the poor by combating these problems now than we would by reducing carbon dioxide emissions".

Mr. Bloomberg has kept his plans for combating these problems under wraps -- partly because he is still forming them, observers believe, but also because announcing an agenda invites sometimes crippling criticism.

Reforms are urgently needed, and they should certainly centre on equality: moving ethnic minority communities into cities rather than leaving them to rot in suburban housing; combating social problems with investment and training rather than armed police; and taking action against hateful language, especially when used by politicians.

When Nikki Silvestri, executive director of Green for All in Oakland, California, was growing up, she struggled with the idea that she had to choose between fighting for the environment and fighting for "my people" – in other words, combating social problems traditionally considered to be key African American issues, like police brutality.

However, the idea of a floating school in combating local problems is one of the unique approaches initiated by BRAC in delivering education services to remote areas.