Sentence examples for destroy livelihoods from inspiring English sources

Large dams, she said, "can destroy livelihoods and food security, exacerbate poverty and lead to human rights violations.

Every day, this Liberal-National government, led by Tony Abbott, provides new examples of its nastiness, its short-sightedness, and its willingness to destroy livelihoods, communities and the environment to enrich coal barons.

Perhaps even more importantly, the worst impacts of many crises – especially those that destroy livelihoods and wreak devastation through famine and malnutrition – could be prevented or even avoided if local and national NGOs were better equipped.

While the markets can destroy livelihoods in milliseconds, the slow, halting meetings in the plazas, and the smaller local assemblies that spread from neighbourhood to neighbourhood, embody participatory democracy.

The jury noted climate change was at the root of violence and suffering across the world, from wars over water to fires and floods that destroy livelihoods and therefore "if we want to achieve peace, we cannot ignore climate change".

But a report by Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN) in Port Harcourt, based on interviews with the operators of nine illegal refineries in three delta states, gives an idea of the vicious circle of pollution and self-destruction that now determines life in the communities, and why the refineries are sanctioned in the full knowledge that they will pollute and destroy livelihoods.

Jean-Michel Vigreux, Haiti director of the humanitarian agency CARE International, said that while communication with the southern part of the country is "very difficult," they had heard of "destroyed houses, streets and bridges, dead livestock, destroyed livelihoods".

European Union subsidies, for example, are destroying livelihoods in developing countries.

Along the road where rioters destroyed livelihoods, there are some signs of improvement.

Armed groups control many of the mines, terrorising communities and destroying livelihoods.

In November 2008 it ruptured twice in a few days near the fishing village of Bodo, spilling thousands of gallons of oil, polluting fishing grounds, and destroying livelihoods.