Sentences with phrase «highly vulnerable group»

Recent modelling has shown that life outcomes are particularly poor for this small but highly vulnerable group.

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One in four people in care homes have diabetes (Sinclair et al 2001) Residents with diabetes living within institutional settings are a highly vulnerable and often neglected group..

This is England doesn't really condemn gangs, as they are shown as having some positive attributes as well, but it does portray them as highly vulnerable to being usurped by stronger influences that can turn them from a group of friends to a radical wing of a fascist organization.

The decision was strongly condemned by civil rights groups, who said that it would harm already highly vulnerable students, but it was applauded by conservatives, who said the guidelines violated the safety and privacy of all other students.

Last December, a spokesman for the World Wildlife Fund, an environmental pressure group, warned, «The deal reached at Copenhagen will have huge ramifications for the lives of hundreds of millions of people who are already highly vulnerable due to widespread poverty.»

As a group, refugees are highly vulnerable.

Read about the growing coalition of education, parent & privacy groups protesting this plan to share confidential student information, without parental consent, with the Gates - funded inBloom Inc., which plans to put it on a highly vulnerable data cloud http://shar.es/Yf9F4 And contrary to what this journalist writes, there is no research showing any of this has pedagogic value.