Sentence examples for poor amenities from inspiring English sources

The community has very poor amenities of its own: a few, infrequently open and badly stocked shops, and no chemist (though there are three dilapidated pubs).

The meal service consisted of a bag of pretzels, she wrote, adding: "Perhaps passenger discontent with the flight attendants has to do with poor amenities rather than the flight attendants themselves.

Also the increase of new urban settlements with poor amenities and limited access to jobs could easily lead to massive social unrest among the migrants in the new "cities".

The less demanding nature of the job in this sector meant that it was better able to retain nurses despite the relatively poor amenities.

31 The settings are characterised by overcrowding, insecurity, poor sanitary conditions, poverty, high unemployment levels, poor amenities and infrastructure, limited access to preventative and curative services and reliance on poor quality, usually informal and unregulated health services.

Indigenous residents of Alice Springs dwell in either overcrowded 'town camps', which have poor amenities and limited refuse disposal, or are integrated with the majority of the non-Indigenous population within the township's suburbs.

It is the case that poorer South African students perform worse academically (54) and poorer households have poorer housing amenities (55), and as the results of this paper show, secondary school completion is significantly concentrated among richer South Africans.

Angry protests about poor basic amenities, known as service-delivery protests, now occur almost every day (see chart 1).Labour unrest is increasingly common.

During the second half of the growth frenzy, unemployment rose, inequality rose, social mobility declined, the poor lost amenities (such as housing) while the rich enhanced theirs.

Faced with poor social amenities and old, decaying, often damp buildings with rents inflated by the costs of renovation, demands of the tourist industry, and wealthy foreign residents (who are often absent from their houses), Venetians have elected in ever-increasing numbers to move into modern apartments in the mainland boroughs of Mestre and Marghera or on the Lido.

Hence, only a fraction of the growing social needs of urban areas are met (United Nations Human Settlements Programme 2003), resulting in an increasing proportion of urban dwellers living under disadvantaged conditions that are characterized by overcrowded or deteriorating housing, inadequate social amenities, and poor environmental and sanitary conditions, as well as poor economic opportunities.