Sentence examples for poverty expectations from inspiring English sources

In San Rafael, longstanding ideals of reciprocal exchange persisted, but in conditions of poverty, expectations were often unfulfilled.

For the households examined in this case study, longstanding ideals of reciprocal exchange persisted, but in conditions of poverty, expectations were often unfulfilled and frequently led to conflict.

"The poverty of expectations — the failure of imagination — I found this just so interesting," Rumsfeld said.

It means tackling poverty, and expectations, and family structures, and aspirations.

Today, the biggest single impediment to improvement is this government's poverty of expectations.

He said his aim was to tackle the poverty of expectations, especially in some predominantly white working-class schools.

In the foreword to Roberta Wohlstetter's classic 1962 study, "Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision," the national-security expert Thomas Schelling wrote that America's ability to be surprised by the actions of its enemies is the result of a "poverty of expectations".

The bad, despite the improvements of the surge, still outweighs the good; even a 13-year-old girl blowing herself up in Baquba on November 10 barely made the news, such is the poverty of expectations.

"I think there has been a poverty of expectations in the past throughout all aspects of the system, to be honest, for which everyone has responsiblility … I don't think we set our national expectations at nearly a high enough level".

In general, child poverty depresses expectations and aspirations.

Depressed women in India attribute their condition to a range of factors including poverty, traditional expectations of women's role, lack of affection and conflict with their husbands, widowhood and divorce, and difficulties providing dowries for their daughters [ 5, 7].