Sentence examples for disadvantaged classes from inspiring English sources

Ecuador has made progress in making education available to disadvantaged classes and ethnic groups and to women.

He defines it more rigidly as "disadvantaged classes that operate at some remove from the mainstream and the orthodox".

Then, protesters wanted to free disadvantaged classes from the oppression of capitalism; now, they would seek to free disadvantaged generations from the fetters of gerontocracy.

India has made some attempt to address ethnic inequality: Dalits, adivasis and other disadvantaged classes (but not Muslims) benefit from a systematic form of affirmative action – quota systems – in political representation, access to education and public sector jobs.

The majority of the interviewed policymakers gave an account of interventions focusing on the immediate determinants and aimed at modifying lifestyles and behaviours in the more disadvantaged classes.

The problem can be found globally (read: worldwide) to different extents [ 21], either among better-off or among socio-economically disadvantaged classes.

Effects of protein-calorie malnutrition are inextricably blended with the effects of social cultural disadvantage; even within the disadvantaged class, literacy environment at home and parental expectation regarding children's education are powerful variables.

Guy Standing is not convinced about our use of his "precariat" (precarious proletariat) term as the label for the most disadvantaged class that we uncover.

Yet this newly proposed biological reduction of women to a hormonally disadvantaged class of people — one medically made disadvantaged, if necessary — struck many of us as regressive from the standpoint of women's rights.

In a landmark judgment by India's supreme court on Tuesday, transgender people were granted the status of a "third gender" category, recognising them as a socially and economically disadvantaged class.

By using credit histories, employers have created a disadvantaged class that could be permanently locked out of the economy.The City Council could fix that, at least in New York City, by passing this bill.