Sentence examples for disadvantaged segments from inspiring English sources

Victims of sex trafficking disproportionately come from disadvantaged segments of Indian society.

Yet social legislation has done much to alleviate the disabilities previously suffered by formerly "untouchable" castes, tribal populations, women, and other traditionally disadvantaged segments of society.

Harcourt also criticized the broken windows theory for fostering "zero-tolerance" policies that are prejudicial against the disadvantaged segments of society.

This study suggests that in order to increase physical activity participation in the more disadvantaged segments of the population, comprehensive, multilevel interventions targeting activity-related attitudes and skills as well as social and physical environments are needed.

Likewise, lower socioeconomic classes tend to depend on the government's subsidized health care or, as Fuat Keyman notes, "free coal, free food, and free primary school textbooks for the poor and disadvantaged segments of society". These subsidies are usually strategically targeted to ensure acquiescence and support from a large segment of the lower income population.

Over the past decade, a number of different, diverse value chains have been established in the urban areas of developed and developing countries alike, with increasing convergence in their motivations related to food security and livelihoods development, particularly for poor and disadvantaged segments of society.

These fine outcomes originate in someone's ability to imagine ways to improve life for a disadvantaged segment of the population.

Early theories by Lewis (1954) and Fields (1975) suggest that the informal sector is the disadvantaged segment of a dual labour market in which workers are not protected by social security regulations and are in weak bargaining positions with their employers.

The study findings suggest that even within a slum population the economically most disadvantaged segment of the population is at highest risk for diseases of poverty such as enteric fever.

The results reveal that the Fuel Poverty Potential Risk Index is an effective tool to select appropriate housing for the most disadvantaged and vulnerable segments of society, considering the future climate, income and energy price trends.

In the 19th century, lots of prominent intellectuals were convinced that such things as a tendency toward promiscuity, or even poverty, were "in the blood" and therefore couldn't change as a result of improving the opportunities and living conditions of disadvantaged and vulnerable segments of the population.