Sentences with phrase «of people living on»

That is a refinement of early intervention tailored more realistically to the lives of people living on the margins.

We held our ground and negotiated fiercely not only for the survival of the people living on small island states, but everyone on planet Earth.

A donation to SolarAid is an amazing and instant way to help create a cleaner planet and improve the lives of the people living on it at the same time.

This is a time for optimism and celebration of the remarkable gains to which the MDGs have contributed worldwide, including: decreasing the global share of people living on less than $ 1.25 per day by more than two - thirds since 1990; more than halving the rate of child mortality; and reaching gender parity in primary - school enrollment.

Despite global population growth and economic crisis, absolute poverty — the proportion of people living on less than $ 1.25 a day — is falling in every region of the world.

CO2's clear fertilizing effect and possible slight warming effect can save the lives of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, of people living on the margin.

The World Bank came out with new numbers on global poverty last week --- and they were full of good news: The proportion of people living on a less than $ 1.25 a day has halved since 1990.

Each goal will be met by reaching a set of quantifiable targets beneath the goal such as halving the number of people living on less than a dollar a day, improving the lives of slum - dwellers, or reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz (b. 1944), who has been living and working in Santiago since the 1960s, is known for her honest portrayal of people living on the fringes of society.

Bonnie Yochelson has added: «Since 1989, Morton has honed her skills photographing, interviewing and presenting the compelling stories of people living on the margins of society.

Delano was assigned the task of capturing the lives and working conditions of people living on the eastern seaboard and in Puerto Rico, where he permanently settled in 1946 after falling in love with the complex ethos of the island and its» people.

There is evidence of people living on top of Castle Rock since the Bronze Age, almost 3000 years ago.

Greece About Blog ACT Animal Care Thassos has been set up by a group of people living on the island of Thassos.

It's a charmingly wry narrative about a small community of people living on barges on the Thames in the 1960s, and if you have any preconceptions about what kinds of people live on barges, Fitzgerald will overturn them.

Aside from Richard, Francoise, and Etienne, most of the people living on the island are immature.

Red Desert (Criterion) The DVD debut of Michelangelo Antonioni's color debut is accompanied by two early Antonioni documentary shorts: his debut film «Gente del Po» (1947), a portrait of the hard loves of the people living on the Po River, and «N.U.» (1948), about the street cleaners of Rome.

Behind the pastel - purple walls of the ironically - named «Magic Castle Motel» is a community of people living on the bread - line.

3) I was saddened to see a number of people living on the streets or inside the Metro stations.

There are tens of millions of people living on this planet (for example, in Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, China, and India) who are almost entirely without the «American» diseases of cancer, heart disease, or autoimmune conditions.

Also, there have even been accounts of people living on nothing but potatoes alone for extended periods of time.

Let's assume that we have solved the necessary technological problems, and that we have been able to establish a community of thousands of people living on the moon.

The results suggest that a 10 % increase in remittances as share of gross domestic product (GDP) will lead to a 1.2 % decline in the number of people living on less than US$ 1.25 per day, 2.4 % decline in the depth of poverty, 3.1 % decline in the number of people living in extreme poverty and 1.5 % decline in inequality.

«The number of people living on $ 2 per day doubled in the 20th century,» Cohen noted at the Columbia event.

Reforms will widen the gap between wages and the income of people living on handouts, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said.

«Literally thousands of people living on the streets in tents, in full - time encampments in their downtown area.»

When asked about the visible expansion in the number of people living on the street, Mr. de Blasio would tout DHS's success in getting people out of shelters.

In a City Council Hearing last week, Taylor could not give an accurate number for the amount of people living on city streets, or for the number of admissions to city homeless shelters since de Blasio took office.

For one, the HOPE count might not be the most accurate count of the people living on city streets, Taylor said.

It's the last Wednesday of the month in the Downtown Eastside neighborhood of Vancouver — the day when thousands of people living on the margins in this community get their monthly social assistance checks.

Several houses of worship will provide sanctuary — and temporary sleeping space — to the homeless under a de Blasio administration initiative aimed at helping to reduce the number of people living on New York City streets.

«The problem of some people living on benefits when they are able to work» (along with «Britain's overall level of debt») is one of the few things that many people think would be worse today had Labour won in 2010.

We have got to show as much passion about Darfur and the millions of people living on less than a dollar a day in sub-Saharan African who are getting poorer while we are getting richer.»

Guess all of those people living on earth before that time really were not worth showing up for.

«I drew a parallel between the tears of people living everyday life, of the people living on the island, of the immigrants, and the Pope's tears,» the priest said.

We soon got to know John Glenn, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong better than most of the people living on our block, thanks to non-stop television coverage of their lives, families, training, and successes and problems.

Hence the destruction of rural communities does not count against the gain in per capita income achieved by reducing the number of persons living on the land while producing the same quantity of agricultural products.

Andrew Arruda proclaimed last November in front of hundreds of people live on the TED stage in San Fra...

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The 2005 Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging found that close relationships with children and other relatives had very little impact on how long you live, but people with the most friends tended to outlive those with the fewest by 22 percent.

Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together, says, «People's relationship to money is not rational, it's emotional... We need to focus more on the psychological blocks and triggers that stand in people's ways, instead of just explaining how to budget or the importance of compound interest.&People's relationship to money is not rational, it's emotional... We need to focus more on the psychological blocks and triggers that stand in people's ways, instead of just explaining how to budget or the importance of compound interest.&people's ways, instead of just explaining how to budget or the importance of compound interest.»

At the moment, the ability to watch live sports seems to be one of the few things that keeps large numbers of people subscribing to cable at all, and ESPN — and its owner Disney (DIS)-- have counted on the fact that this relationship is rock solid.

Lloyd's of London CEO Inga Beale spoke to CNBC in June about the impact young people have had on her company and professional life.

The article lays out Wiseman's research into the impact of luck on people's lives.

On a broader level, he will be seen as just one of many who stood at the forefront of a broad cultural change, one that eventually affected the health and lives of millions of people.

Let your business — your life's blood, your brainchild — sink or swim on its own, with the people you've already put in charge of the tasks they're equipped to handle.

But there are certain qualities that incredibly successful people share... especially those who make a significant impact on the lives of other people in the process.

But the jobs that require math skills and social skills — communication, working with others, all of these things you're supposed to learn in kindergarten, those end up being valuable because they're very hard to reduce to code or assign on a spec sheet to people living overseas.

Most people probably know Lena Dunham as the creator, writer, and star of Girls, the HBO comedy series that is loosely based on her life as a twenty - something in New York City.

TV viewership is slipping in parts of the world, with more and more people live - streaming matches on their phones.

People forget the importance of waking up each morning and focusing solely on maximizing their life for that particular day — not tomorrow, next week or next month, but today.

World War I, which ended 99 years ago on Saturday, took the lives of about 40 million people and is considered by many to be the first total, industrial war.