The definition of foreign aid has been changed to include some military spending, in a move that charities fear will lead to less cash being spent on directly alleviating poverty.
Anyone who understands refugee flows and the Schengen system has to see that cutting Greece loose from the principle of free movement would not directly alleviate the refugee flows moving towards central Europe.
But the Nobel award was quickly criticised on the grounds that Syria's chemical disarmament had barely begun and would, in any case, do little to directly alleviate the plight of Syrians.
When the system that surrounds you is very top-down, bureaucratic, inhuman, that can only increase your feelings of helplessness … but I do believe there are moments of despair, helplessness and frustration that could be directly alleviated by the work of government.
Some with a medical degree even directly alleviate pain, taking care of one patient after another.
However, these therapeutic agents may not directly alleviate symptoms of diarrhea.
When resource limitation hinders potential invaders, disturbance can increase resource availability directly, alleviating abiotic resistance and/or reduce resource uptake by the native plant community, alleviating biotic resistance (Davis et al. 2000).
Current drugs for type 2 diabetes (T2D) lower blood glucose levels but they do not directly alleviate β cell stress nor prevent, let alone reverse, β cell de-differentiation.
Kennedy's decision to confront the issue directly helped alleviate the fears of many Protestants.
Whole blood samples can be used directly, thus alleviating the need for PBMC separation, and thereby enables a simple, fast and cost-effective analysis of a large number of samples.
