Sentence examples for less empowered to resist from inspiring English sources

Other socio-demographic characteristics examined (education, income and employment) were selected because inheritance is assumed to be more common among poor and uneducated widows who are less empowered to resist family pressure [7], [8], [10].

Female workers are especially vulnerable to wage theft and other forms of exploitation, and are less empowered to speak up.

Without literacy, each of the 17 goals will be limited by the inability of citizens to be sufficiently informed on key issues, and less empowered to take action," said Dan Wagner, Unesco's chair in learning and literacy at the University of Pennsylvania.

A final possibility is that women who are depressed feel less empowered to assert control over their sexual relationships.

This may indicate that researchers in these countries are less empowered to pursue research interests independently, when compared with their colleagues in Western countries.

This had the dual effect of making me feel, on the one hand, obliged to accept and, on the other, less empowered to voice an opinion.

Many researchers also argue that most pregnant women in resource poor settings are less empowered and are thus less likely to resist the pressure to comply with the advice given by health professionals in antenatal settings [ 11- 13].

Smokers felt less able to resist.

As such banks would have less reason to resist these reforms than they resist most mainstream command-and-control safety regulation.

A sinking Trump would have far less power to resist such an outcome.

It is less likely to resist.