Sentences with phrase «by lack of access»

When Moore realized that many of the villagers» health issues were caused by a lack of access to clean water, he began installing water filters and training people to maintain them.

Remember, to create the best pre-inspection report you want a thorough inspection and this is thwarted by lack of access.

The two publishers, along with Ripley Publishing, are working with Worldreader to increase literacy in a region that is greatly affected by a lack of access to up - to - date and reader - appropriate print materials.

Committed to public education, but challenged by lack of access to their schools of choice, the group began envisioning the ideal school for their young children.

The widening gap between rich and poor, which is made worse by lack of access to high - quality health care and K - 12 education.

The study in the journal Nature showed that roads can aid farmers, especially in developing nations where food production is held back by a lack of access to markets or to fertilisers and other technologies.

A consultation on aid spending is seeking to establish the most effective ways in which Britain use its aid budget to help lower the number of maternal deaths and newborn deaths caused by a lack of access to basic family planning methods.

All across the continent from Cape Town to Cairo, African economic growth is stunted by a lack of access to adequate power.

Reporters, already frustrated by a lack of access to lawmakers and parts of the building during the leadership fight in the Assembly, were angered when Heastie left a long - awaited news conference after three questions — a total of 90 seconds.

This strongly suggests that the previous increase in maternal mortality was not driven by lack of access to health care, since access has not increased.

«Consider the Golden Rice — it is only meant to address Vitamin A Deficiency when in fact, the problem on malnutrition involves other nutrients as well, which is caused by the lack of access to safe and sufficient food.»

And a lot of mis - interpretations are generated by lack of access to the Greek or Hebrew — such as today's «rapture» nonsense, based an a misunderstanding of the Greek and the original setting / culture in which the relevant texts were first written.

My curiosity to find more was trumped only by my lack of access.

Liberating data will spur grassroots research on important social, economic, political and technical areas, currently hampered by lack of access to and high cost of civic data.

Not exact matches

By targeting refineries, already suffering from a lack of investment, Mexico's most notorious criminals gain access to nerve centers for much of the country's fuel supply.

The most common barrier to expansion faced by today's small businesses is lack of access to capital.

The key problem for the Russian oil industry, in addition to the low oil prices, is the lack of fresh capital and access to technology created by the sanctions regime.

* Several factors could lift housing prices: An increase in potential home buyers, fueled by the growing ranks of Millennials — those born between 1980 and the early 2000s — poised to form their own households, combined with a near - historic lack of single - family homes for sale and growing access to mortgage credit.

The documents — dating from 2006 to 2010 and obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act — show officials getting increasingly exasperated with the Afghan government's lack of interest in investigating the crime.

Asset holdings are lower in states with high exemptions, suggesting that the consumption smoothing result is driven by lack of self - insurance, not by less access to credit.

Industry trade groups like ICI have taken issue with the DOL's plan to boost workers» access to retirement plans through state - run programs, arguing that such plans will spur a «confusing, state - by - state patchwork of savings programs» that could lack strict federal controls.

Access to finance and business finance advice for SMEs in the UK Successful businesses may sometimes find further growth hampered by a lack of funding.

The U.S. health industry has been relatively slow to adopt biosimilars due to a combination of complex market access tactics employed by branded biologics manufacturers, on - going patent litigation, lack of interchangeability, and a general lack of awareness and acceptance of biosimilars.

The ACCC would not comment, but in its recent bulk wheat port access report noted: «Given the lack of access to alternate supply chains it is not surprising that there is a high level of concern within industry about the effect of rebates recently announced by CBH for users of its supply chain, and the impact on grain trading and competition for port terminal and related bulk export supply chain operations.»

It has been a matter of great concern among public health activists who work on child health and nutrition that the issue of malnutrition was being converted into a marketing opportunity to be addressed through products that big corporations could sell as the answer, instead of being seen as a basic lack of access to food caused by structural inequities in food distribution.

According to the ex-president: «There is no lack of willingness to engage in agriculture by women» but observed factors such as male - dominated land holding systems and lack of access to finance for agricultural production among others, have limited the participation of women in the agric sector.

Some practical problems arising from the issues mentioned above in Iraq are: 1) the lack of security during and after displacement (between areas controlled by ISIS and the government controlled locations); and 2) the barriers to access basic services such as WASH, shelter, food, education, child protection and Gender Based Violence, among others.

The current offices have major structural defects, significant parts of the roof are collapsing, significant leakages in most offices, damp and mouldy walls, electrical defects have been discovered and pointed out by the Fire Service for urgent attention (please see «CO7A» attached), the building lacks disability access, is decrepit and outdated, requiring extensive work and expense to make it habitable and reflective of the office of the Electoral Commission.

«CIDNY is calling for systemic changes to ensure that voters with disabilities are no longer disenfranchised by lack of training on disability access and voting technology, locked doors and blocked pathways, and lack of coordination by City agencies charged with providing facilities for voters,» CIDNY executive director Susan Dooha said in a statement.

Red Hook Houses, a NYCHA development that has been isolated by lack of sufficient access to public transportation, has been a focus of the streetcar proposal.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

• Lack of Access to Voting Formula: As you know, county committee members have weighted votes determined by the percentage Democratic votes cast in that district in the most recent gubernatorial election.

This explains everything to do with HMRC's digital services and takes people, step by step, through the process of setting up an online self - assessment account with HMRC.1 `' If you need some assistance to deal with your tax return online — perhaps because you lack IT skills or because you do not have internet access — you can ask for help by phoning HMRC.

Over a third (37 %) said secure employment with fair access to pay progression would most encourage them to remain; Excessive workload was the biggest problem being experienced during the induction year, followed by a lack of support to deal with poor pupil behaviour; Nearly six in ten (59 %) say they do not have a reasonable work / life balance.

A map of the state assembled by the administration shows that almost all communities north of New York City and Long Island lack access to 100 mb / s broadband.

That review also noted an unprecedented lack of cooperation by the city's Law Department — which reports to the mayor — including redacting relevant documents and blocking full access to City Hall computers.

The meeting was organized by Senator Klein's office in the latest attempt to address and resolve outstanding resident concerns at the properties that range from reports of tenant harassment, potential violation of rent stabilization laws, massive construction projects impairing quality of life, lack of elevator service for the disabled, and no access to laundry facilities.

Efforts to limit access to voting, compounded by election security concerns, have created a lack of confidence in the U.S. voting system, said Myrna Perez, professor of law and director of the Brennan Center for Justice Voting Rights and Elections Project at the New York University School of Law.

The rapid spread of the virus, combined with a lack of access to treatments, was especially felt by African nations.

Training and awareness: Employees are unaware of tricks used by criminals to extract access codes; lack of reinforcement due to low frequency of security incidents leads to extinction of defensive behavior.

The petition, on the White House website, was launched by Access2Research, a group of four open - access advocates who were frustrated by the lack of progress on the issue and so are trying a new tack.

Though few places in Washington State could be described as food deserts for those with access to a car, 6 % of low - income residents lacked reasonable access to WIC supermarkets; this was overwhelmingly (78 %) caused by lack of a personal vehicle.

A recent study in Environmental Health showed that access to clean water could reduce childhood mortality by 1.17 deaths per 1,000 children, which is a large number of preventable deaths for the millions of children who lack access to improved water — and millions more who apparently lack access to fully safe water supplies.

In addition, NSF is directed to spend some of that $ 69 million for a study into the effects of the «digital divide,» the term used to describe the lack of access to computers and the Internet by lower income individuals.

Social inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income as well as between the overall quality and luxury of each person's existence within a society, while economic inequality is caused by the unequal accumulation of wealth; social inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wealth.

Recent trials testing transplants of fecal microbes from the healthy to the sick have been so promising that people are attempting dangerous do - it - yourself fecal transplants by enema, for lack of access to authorized medical procedures.

Recent trials testing transplants of fecal microbes from the healthy to the sick have been so promising that people are attempting dangerous do - it - yourself fecal transplants by enema, for lack of access to...

Access to eye health care is further restricted by lack of equipment and medications and by the mobility of clinicians and patients.

The researchers admitted their work was compromised by their lack of full access to the drilling site.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Skloot gained unprecedented access to the family and life story of Lacks, whose namesake HeLa cells became a standard tool of biomedical research.