Sentence examples for heightened poverty from inspiring English sources

Other social effects of declining marine life include human trafficking and heightened poverty.

This project heightens poverty now and in the future.

Without a reliable social safety net or the time and means to recover and rebuild, many children, families, and communities suffer through repeated cycles of crisis that deepen poverty, heighten social tensions and compromise well-being.10 In many protracted emergencies, crisis has become the norm – but habituation to such conditions makes them no less challenging for children and families.

A 2014 Human Rights Watch report found that LGBTQ people in Jamaica faced "a high risk of violence, vulnerability heightened by poverty and family rejection, and mixed responses from both the authorities and the public".

This follow-up to his justly legendary "Killer of Sheep" is also, in some ways, its antithesis: in that film, the pathos of poverty is heightened by humor and romance; here, Burnett drives a thesis hard and it gets in the way of emotion.

The picture of poverty is heightened by the film's backdrop, Disney World – the self-proclaimed happiest place on earth – and the continuous flow of tanned men in deck shoes and toned women in visors with bright-faced children passing through its gates.

"All our children experience heightened violence because of poverty, rivalries between local families, drug trafficking and Israeli settlements pressing into our dense Palestinian neighbourhood," another mother reported.

"All our children experience heightened violence because of poverty, rivalries between local families, drug trafficking and Israeli settlements pressing into our dense Palestinian neighbourhood", another mother reports.

Download the publication [PDF] Regional chapter [PDF] EAPRO map [GIF] Multiple natural hazards – earthquakes, monsoons and cyclones – affect countries in the East Asia and Pacific region each year, their impact heightened by the extreme poverty and weakened infrastructure that characterize the region.

Gates was speaking at an event organised by the Global Poverty Project, a campaign group that has just launched a new initiative aimed at heightening awareness of poverty at community level.

"As a result, tax havens are heightening inequality and poverty, corroding democracy, distorting markets, undermining financial and other regulation and curbing economic growth, accelerating capital flight from poor countries, and promoting corruption and crime around the world".