Sentence examples for disadvantaged about from inspiring English sources

Quite unmistakably Barry Fairbrother [the parish councillor who dies at the start of the novel] represents liberal aspirations towards a fairer and more integrated society, whereby we don't lecture the disadvantaged about pulling themselves up by their bootstraps: instead we have to wade in to help in ways that may be messy, unsatisfying and barely effective, but without which we abandon hope.

You could even fund community outreach programs to teach disadvantaged people about how to engage in the democratic process and have their voices heard.

Men are now being disadvantaged by our prejudices about "women's work", which bleed out from housework into the idea that serving or caring for another human is demeaning to a man's dignity.

Better educated and traditionally better treated than blacks, the coloureds worry about being disadvantaged under ANC rule perhaps rightly.Economic-empowerment and affirmative-action laws are supposed to benefit all previously disadvantaged groups, but coloureds claim that blacks often get priority.

This can then lead planning professionals and decision makers who care about the disadvantaged in the city to provide them with equal footing to employment opportunities.

Consumers are pressuring companies to produce products with superior sustainability performance, yet educators are disadvantaged in training students about sustainable engineering and many engineers are often not well-positioned to perform product sustainability assessments.

Even though women are usually the primary caregivers to children, they are less likely to know about the health effects associated with Hg exposure compared to men and so are disadvantaged in making decisions about exposure reduction.

Alexandra became interested in gardening after participating in the Monroe County Youth Farm Stand Project, which Brenda started two years ago to help disadvantaged youth learn about nutrition.

CAFE has a long history of hosting talks about how men are systemically disadvantaged in the Western world.

"And I became aware of the ways in which people who write about the disadvantaged often underestimate its psychological contours, the uncertainty — economic or whatever".

No surprise either, the headlines about boys being disadvantaged and "left behind".