Sentence examples for severe underfunding from inspiring English sources

Populist cash injections command great support when there is a perception of severe underfunding in the public sector, as happened in the 1990s.

James Wright, director general of the Foreign Ministry's central, east and south Europe bureau, said that the United Nations administrator, Bernard Kouchner of France, was right to make frequent complaints about severe underfunding.

Its pension funds are severely underfunded.

The group's efforts were severely underfunded.

Councillor Peter Box, chair of the LGA's Economy and Transport Board, said: "Decades of underfunding by Whitehall, severe winters and recent widespread flooding has left large swathes of our roads in disrepair with many councils struggling to move beyond simply patching up a deteriorating network".

Peter Box, the Local Government Association's transport spokesman, said: "Decades of underfunding by Whitehall and recent severe winters have left large swathes of our roads in disrepair.

Zimbabwe's health, education, water and social welfare sectors have over the past decade been under severe strain owing to years neglect and underfunding.

For example, approximately 95% of HIV-infected people live in developing countries [ 4], which typically face challenges of underfunding, limited materiel resources, and severe human resource shortages in the health sector [ 5].

The underfunding of pensions at companies with severe shortfalls eased by 9percentt last year, but the gap remained much worse than five years ago, the nation's pension insurance agency said Thursday.

Already underfunded mental health services have seen severe cuts that have left them on their knees in many areas, at a time of rising demand.

In a sharply worded letter to the governor and legislative leaders sent this week, the group, which was started by parents and education advocates, said "the state's underfunding of our public schools is so severe that it amounts to a violation of its constitutional obligation to provide New York's children with adequate education resources".