Sentence examples for confronting poverty from inspiring English sources

During a Q&A session with Wilson and Mary Kramer, publisher of Crain's Detroit Business, Bacow alluded to partnerships announced between Harvard and the University of Michigan aimed at combating the nation's opioid crisis and confronting poverty in Detroit.

Since taking office in 2004, Mr. Saakashvili has based his leadership on one big idea after another: the dissolution of the notoriously corrupt traffic police; changing the country's second language to English from Russian; moving Parliament from Tbilisi to Kutaisi, a small city a three-hour drive away; and, now, confronting poverty in the agrarian west by building a city from scratch.

In e-books we have fiction, including the thrillers 12.21 by Dustin Thomason and Headhunters by Norwegian author Jo Nesbo, among others, as well as nonfiction such as Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo ("vital reading for anyone serious about confronting poverty"–Timothy Ogden, Stanford Social Innovation Review).

Duncan's Education Department has funded a number of programs called Promise Neighborhoods based on the HCZ, but the financial and rhetorical thrust of their reform program has been around common standards and standardized tests and promoting charter schools, not confronting poverty's very real toll on kids.

Ryan McEvoy, a Principal at California-based Gaia doeslopment, which doesustainablele development, helped found Collective Solutions, a nonprofit organization that is confronting poverty and climate change.

They are sure that public spaces will surprise them into confronting poverty, homelessness and muggings.

"Colossal Youth" (2006, Pedro Costa): Modernization and bureaucracy confront poverty without pity.

This was the time to confront poverty, and Bush messed it up.

What efforts are being made to confront poverty and its links to violence?

"You'll confront poverty, you'll confront mental illness, illegal guns and a still too divided society.

After King confronted war in 1968, he decided to confront poverty, which he regarded as a civil rights affront as well.