Sentence examples for to combat a problem from inspiring English sources

The railway operator, Deutsche Bahn, said its miniature drones would be used to patrol the depots and train yards on its own property, not in public spaces, in an effort to combat a problem that costs the company around $10 million a year.

"For the I.M.F. to be devoting so much financial and human capital to try to combat a problem in Europe which is largely political in origin and can only be solved by political agreement is controversial," he said.

That episode, combined with the increasing problem of drinking parties in homes involving minors, prompted parents and the police in Glastonbury to try and come up with ways to combat a problem that seemed to be out of control.

It is the third major sweep since Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced in May that they were adding millions of dollars and dozens of agents to combat a problem that costs the country billions of dollars each year.

But this charge was specifically brought in to combat a litter problem and has caused several knock-on effects.

The Bloomberg administration has been working to combat a deadly problem in New York City: drivers who speed or run through red lights.

It would have taken a remarkably strong federal statute, loaded with every enforcement measure in the book, to combat a social problem of that magnitude.

Isolated examples like these were supposed to be the "tip of the iceberg," in the words of Kris Kobach, who has staked his career on devising onerous voter-I.D. requirements to combat a nonexistent problem.

After more than 12 months on the sidelines following ground-breaking surgery on both knees to combat a tendinitis problem, Hargreaves has now returned to United's Carrington training complex.

They also help to combat a real problem with pseudoscientific solutions and hucksters making false claims about other brain training products that have come onto the market.

In 2011, women's football was seen as a way to combat a growing problem of obesity in the country.