Sentence examples for compounded disadvantage from inspiring English sources

The coalition government has compounded disadvantage.

Disadvantaged groups are least likely to own a car, compounding disadvantage in a car-dominated society.

We know that most of these effects are being felt in some of Australia's poorest postcodes, compounding disadvantage and inequality.

She said: "The way in which pupils are grouped can have an effect - streaming tends to compound disadvantage, while summer-born children tend to do better within mixed-ability classes".

"The physics of inequality is compounding disadvantage for the have-nots and accelerating advantage at the very top 20percentt of households," Collins told me.

A key learning from this finding is that social marketing and other health promotion strategies have the potential to compound disadvantage if these rely solely on ownership or ready access to costly items such as television sets [ 26].

People with chronic health conditions who are not in the labour force and do not participate in social or cultural activities may have a compounding disadvantage.

The unequal treatment compounded their disadvantages year after year, he contended.

Countries with the poorest health also tend to have the lowest standards of living, compounding their disadvantage.

Further compounding their disadvantage, these children exhibit a 'knowledge deficit' which stems from decreased exposure to general information about the world.

These represent diverse structures of inequality that, along with gender, can compound the disadvantage and discrimination that women still face.