Sentences with phrase «poor people living»

As the latest IPCC report noted, «Poor people living in urban informal settlements, of which there are [already] about one billion worldwide, are particularly vulnerable to weather and climate effects.»

While my print story and post on quake threats last week focused on the seismic peril facing millions of poor people living in fast - growing cities in quake zones, there are plenty of prosperous places that have not adequately responded to their exposure to enormous, and inevitable, earthquake risk.

I am working in Brazil as a professor in the University, and we have followed an approach with the nattier, indigenous people, and with poor people living in the favelas.

But in the near term, the report warns that many poor people living in the 25 opt - out states will continue to lack coverage and might find long wait times at clinics, long distances to find care, and other barriers that could translate to delays in treatment or no care at all.

Nocera is working to scale up the system in hopes that it will bring clean, abundant energy to poor people living off the grid.

By 2005, when the economy was prospering, there were already more poor people living in suburbs than in U.S. cities.

The erosion of the soil in areas that have been abused for their mineral wealth, the pollution of the air where poor people live, are not just facts of nature; what we have is an ethical judgement on the exploitation of natural resources by the rich at the expense of the poor.

It is no accident that nature is most devastated where poor people live.

Today, a million and a half more poor people live in the suburbs of major metropolitan areas than in the center cities.

«spend a year or two abroad in a remote country, see how poor people live, have babies, feed themselves and are HAPPY!»

We don't want to end up like Paris with all the rich people living in the centre and all the poorer people living around the edge.»

So, for example, a poor person living on a logging road in the Chequamegon - Nicolet National Forest was more likely to be happy than a wealthier person living on a treeless block in Milwaukee.

For poorer people living in rural districts rates of control were particularly low.

And most poor people live in nations with abundant insolation.

While teaching at St. Mary's High School, Mother Teresa caught a glimpse of how Calcutta's poorest people lived.

While teaching at St. Marys High School, Mother Teresa caught a glimps of how Calcutta's poorest people lived.

Some of the poorest people live in the cities, as do some of the wealthiest — those who can afford to pay for housing, entertainment, and security.

A poor person living near greenery was even more likely to have a self - reported higher level of peace and happiness than a wealthier person living in an area with less greenery.»

Many poor people live in places particularly affected by phenomena related to warming, and their livelihoods depend heavily on natural reserves and on so - called ecosystem services, such as agriculture, fisheries and forest resources.

And I think if you do that in the first place, you get the data in place, you understand where the vulnerabilities are, and typically what those plans tend to show is the poorest people live in the most vulnerable areas.

Your point about therapists not knowing how poorer people live is spot on.

Not exact matches

But when people live in a constant state of fight or flight that's triggered by all the things they're trying to squeeze into a week, this can lead to really poor decisions and life - threatening health problems.

This false data may be partly responsible for the poor impression people have of sales, a true profession and very needed life skill.

Science (and real - life poor people) have long known that facing daily adversity demands a lot of energy and attention.

Seven in 10 of the world's poor live in remote or rural areas, where access to medical services is sharply limited or not available at all: 5 billion people can't reach or afford essential surgical care, from emergency caesarian sections to cancer surgery.

«Poor Kevin [Ford] has watched more nuclear weapons footage, I think, than any living person,» says Schlosser.

I spend a lot of time with people who work at Tumblr, but I make a very poor effort to hang out with other people in my life.

They trade in the lives of poor misguided people.»

You make a poor career choice: There are too many people out there who studied for a degree they regret or even spent their lives pursuing a career they regret.

A frugal person like myself lives like the poor and is happy with the simple lifestyle.

-LSB-...] In my five - year study of rich and poor people, 67 % of the self - made millionaires said that their optimism was critical to their success in life.

Often people use the old formula of four times their yearly income to determine how much life insurance they need, and this is a poor substitute for actual analysis of your situations and options.

We're tired of poor service from companies that don't treat us with respect or that send us into a phone mail maze that wastes minutes of our time and never connects us with a living person.

Many popular and famous speakers got a quick - start on their careers by teaching at adult learning centers throughout the U.S. People like Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad), Barbara Sher (Do What You Love and The Money Will Follow), Wayne Dyer (Your Erroneous Zones), and Cheryl Richardson (Take Time for Your Life) built their businesses this way.

The title of the work, Poor Charlie's Almanack, is a play on the fact that Benjamin Franklin published a collection of wisdom titled «Poor Richard's Almanack», and that Founding Father is the one person that Munger has repeatedly stated he spends most of his life trying to emulate.

By the end of the semester, he'd raised another $ 5 million and was standing in front of the Digital Life Design conference in Munich, promising a world in which education was nearly free, available to poor people in the developing world, and better than anything that had come before it.

You make a couple of hundred dollars a month, well above the standard of living for the genuinely poor, illiterate people from a despised ethnicity who live on dirt floors and cook over indoor fires.

«Walmart does not pay employees enough», «Walmart is anti-union», «Walmart sells poor quality goods from China», «Walmart is for unattractive people who live in flyover and voted for Trump» are some popular responses (the last one para-phrased a bit by me, but nevertheless one that reflects a prevailing sentiment).

Unless you have concerns regarding your ability to get coverage, such as if you've been diagnosed with a life - shortening condition like cancer, our analysis indicates this is a poor choice for most people.

The index doesn't reflect changes in the quality of items over time and can't tell us much about the spending patterns of the poor, or of people living outside of urban areas.

Now as far as power goes: I take it you are aware sir, of recent increases in power usage and associated blackouts not only making the U.S. appear as inept as various two banana republics but also costing some people, usually the poorest among us or the elderly, their lives.

But I do agree to many people are wasting their lives in front of the TV, it contributes to poor health and obesity, especially in children.

It must be noted that simply because there isn't a YouTube of Jesus walking through L.A., curing the blind an feeding the poor, doesn't mean that people can't base their lives off his works in the bible and mimic his good will?

The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»

It also seems quite hard to swallow that a person could spend his or her life helping the poor, counseling the down and out, building homes for Habitat for Humanity, giving millions to charitable causes, assisting those with disabilities and mental health issues, and without a sincere acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior, be doomed to eternal condemnation and suffering, no getting out early for good behavior.

The archbishop also asserted that laws are based upon certain principles: «the pursuit of the common good through respect for the natural law, the dignity of the human person, the inviolability of innocent life from conception to natural death, the sanctity of marriage, justice for the poor, protection of minors, and so on.»

Poor people tend to have less knowledge, less ability to assess scientific information, and fewer options to earn their livings.

Announcing his resignation (below) to the world he said: «I believe we've made great steps, with more people in work than ever before in our history, with reforms to welfare and education, increasing people's life chances, building a bigger and stronger society, keeping our promises to the poorest people in the world and enabling those who love each other to get married whatever their sexuality, but above all restoring Britain's economic strength.»

Unless the poor understand that their poverty is caused by a few people who are exploiting them, sucking their blood... It is not caused by your past lives and bad acts, it is caused by the social system which depends on exploitation.

Professor Myron Christodoulides, professor of bacteriology at the University of Southampton, said: «Outside of the UK, rapid detection and targeted antibiotic treatments for eye infections are very urgent needs for many people living in some of the poorest countries in the world.»