Sentence examples for maintain poverty from inspiring English sources

We can therefore legitimately argue that the existing legal framework, and political decisions create or maintain poverty, pushing people into the hands of those who are prepared to exploit them.

There would be no shortage of memes and tropes (because all drama is nothing without a meme and a trope): why it suits banks and governments to maintain poverty levels; the invasion of the Labour party-snatchers; why there are even more thugs in the police force and the great Immigration Lie.

For example, Alan from Plainfield, N.J., writes: "Evangelicals stir the pot, destroy traditional societies, create cultural and economic divides, maintain poverty to enable good works, and try to unload their misguided deistic views on their 'wards.' Can't we get this done without religion?" No, Alan, I don't think so.

(As Prashad says, it functioned as this instead of, not on top of, a "genuine challenge to those forces that produce and maintain poverty").

They argued the high subsidies were artificially driving down global crop prices, unfairly undermining small farmers and maintaining poverty in many developing countries.

We do not collectively raise our voices against the institutions that contribute to maintaining poverty and inequity in our country.

Background: Evidence suggests that higher multi-morbidity rates among people with low socioeconomic status produces and maintains poverty.

Thus, Maru et al. suggest rethinking current approaches, emphasizing the importance of "causes external to the system" in creating and maintaining poverty traps.

In India, primary research was conducted in 4 villages in 2 districts of Rajasthan and focused on the intergenerational transfer of poverty, role of gender and caste based discrimination in maintaining poverty cycles and the role of government in breaking intergenerational poverty cycles (Bhargava et al. 2005).

Equally relevant is reasoning from critics like Pogge and Benatar et al who argue that the past and present policies of wealthy nations have created and maintained poverty and ill health and, therefore, that wealthy nations bear a commensurate responsibility to help alleviate these problems [ 35].

122 In this way, the disease contributes to maintain the poverty cycle in these neglected communities.