Sentence examples for disadvantaged setting from inspiring English sources

But some investigators are concerned that the benefits of a market-based approach to removing flame retardants from furniture and baby products will trickle down most slowly to the economically disadvantaged, setting them further behind as far as their chemical body burden goes.

This gap is created when one student raised in a privileged setting is exposed to a far greater variety of experiences than a student raised in a disadvantaged setting.

The advantage of this limitation, however, is that the study addressed an important cause of low HRQoL in a socio-economically disadvantaged setting that stands to benefit most from appropriate and targeted interventions for victims of ACE.

In an abject year for journalism, Katherine Boo's portrait of a Mumbai slum, Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Portobello), the result of three years' honest witness among the disadvantaged, sets a gold standard for exactly what a gifted reporter may still do alone.

Norms must stipulate that partnerships contribute to strengthening of social safety nets in disadvantaged settings and should be set within the context of 'social responsibility' as the idea is not meant for private funds to be put to public use nor to privatize public responsibilities.

The Camden study on the impact of multivitamin supplementation on pregnancy was conducted in a disadvantaged urban setting in the USA.

He tells of the family of recent Cuban immigrants with a $500m fortune who won American government contracts set aside for disadvantaged minorities, and of how preferential policies in Nigeria and Sri Lanka caused ethnic polarisation and, eventually, civil war.

Dowd died of cancer in August 2007 and all royalties now go to a fund for disadvantaged young people set up in her name.

When people ask whether it would be a better use of time to campaign for women who are disadvantaged financially, it sets up a nonexistent conflict between issues, all of which are important.

Access to education and advice has been dramatically reduced in recent years: tuition fees have trebled, the careers service and education maintenance allowance has been axed, the student loan stock is being sold off and the funding pot for disadvantaged students is set to be halved.

And they feel so in part (in their own assessment) because of government help to the disadvantaged: the contracts set aside for minorities; the affirmative action that works against their college-bound children; the taxes they pay while others seem to them to enjoy unemployment and its checks.