Sentence examples for combatting poverty from inspiring English sources

At last year's Millennium Summit, Mr. Annan set ambitious goals for combatting poverty and disease.

Some large companies have launched entrepreneurial saleswoman programmes, which aim to open up marketing opportunities while simultaneously combatting poverty.

Only a day after Mr. Annan's report was released, the U.N. Development Program concluded that there has been little progress in combatting poverty in the last five years.

And by Thursday, the closing day, many participants had signed a declaration pledging themselves to work for just that -- along with combatting poverty and pressing for environmental protection.

But, politically, he fit well into the Catholic Church of the early seventies, when it was active on social-justice issues, combatting poverty, segregation, and racism.

Its aim was to promote a vision of sustainable development by combatting poverty, disease and overpopulation; fostering conservation, atmospheric protection, pollution controls and biodiversity; and by establishing a greater role in all of this for non-state actors like women's groups, young people, NGOs and business.

To combat poverty, a welfare state.

Ambitious programs to combat poverty, illiteracy, and inequality were launched.

The obligations to combat poverty, Ryan said, are beyond dispute.

Both would combat poverty and discourage undocumented immigration.

"The T.V.A.," Ward writes, "was meant to combat poverty itself".