Sentence examples for serious adversity from inspiring English sources

He has also dealt with serious adversity, surviving bouts of testicular cancer in 1995 and 2007.

Jerome Krase, a professor emeritus in sociology at Brooklyn College, and one of the editors of "Race and Ethnicity in New York City," said that a growing number of Asian immigrants in recent years had experienced serious adversity in their home countries.

"The health disparities reflect the historical and social context of their lives, and the serious adversity they have encountered can jeopardize their health and willingness to seek services in old age".

"I actually believe if he gets through this and everything he said yesterday turns out to be true he could actually benefit from this because, as you and I know, most people and most politicians succeed have to have gone through serious adversity, overcome it, and they get to another level," Dowd added.

Tough: I do talk about interventions that are less complex than, say, Educare, but I think part of the answer is that if we are really serious about leveling the playing field for kids who are growing up in serious adversity, it is going to be complicated and expensive, and it is going to take a serious investment, not just of money but of time and attention.

Moreover, from the available data on children's preadoption history, it appeared that those placed with gay fathers were no less likely to have experienced serious adversity such as neglect, or emotional or physical abuse, than children placed with lesbian mothers or heterosexual parents.

RAD has never been reported in the absence of serious environmental adversity yet outcomes for children raised in the same environment vary widely.

Matt Forde, head of service for Scotland, NSPCC: The more severe the adversity faced in infancy and childhood, the more serious are the risks across childhood and into adulthood.

Gabby's mom is the kind of Western woman I recognize from growing up in Montana -- the kind to instill in their kids a crystal clear sense of individual freedom, strength in the face of adversity, and serious American-style grit.

The upsurge in research on post-traumatic growth in recent years has been hastened in large part by the availability of scales purporting to measure growth in the context of adversity, including serious illness [ 66].

"Sometimes good comes through adversity.