Sentence examples for owing to poverty from inspiring English sources

Pan was an excellent student in elementary school, and was admitted to Wendeng County Normal School with the highest score in the entrance examination; however, he was later forced to drop out owing to poverty, and taught in a rural elementary school for five years.

Choi and Eleanor (2007) report that in countries such as China, sex workers may refrain from condom negotiation owing to poverty; a similar situation prevails in Bangladesh.

Influences related to patient behaviour included late uptake of hospital care owing to poverty and the use of traditional medicine, and poor adherence to IPC measures by patients, family members and carers.

Owing to poverty and the struggle of sustenance, this cohort has no other option but to turn to commercial sex work for a living.

A study showed that about 85%% of Nigerians use CAM for healthcare and psychosocial benefits owing to harrowing poverty and dissatisfaction with conventional medical care [ 34].

As a result, we really do not have any notion of how many people suffer extreme consequences, perhaps even death, owing to living in poverty in the Colonias, or any other poverty stricken areas of the nation for that matter.

The priests were faced with a situation of dire poverty owing to the absence of Rives' patronage.

King's dream of a more democratic America had become, in his words, "a nightmare," owing to the persistence of "racism, poverty, militarism and materialism".

The poverty of some is owing to the greed of others; suffering and deprivation may occur because of institutionalized racial and ethnic hatred, or because leaders use their positions to advance their own power and prosperity at the expense of their citizenry, or simply because the cost of defense against foreign enemies brings economic hardship to a nation or some of its members.

Peter Uvin defines structural violence as "a condition in which the poor are denied decent and dignified lives because their basic physical and mental capacities are constrained by hunger, poverty, inequality, and exclusion," owing to political, economic and social factors [ 1].

However, rates of mental and emotional illness are thought to be increasing in Zambia owing to socio-economic difficulties that precipitate mental problems including HIV/AIDS, poverty and lack of employment[ 4, 5, 14].