Sentences with phrase «sectors of the population live»

NUT: As a society we can not afford to let significant sectors of the population live below the poverty level

«As a society we can not afford to let significant sectors of the population live below the poverty level.

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Thus has life been endangered not only for the poor, but for all sectors of the human population and for many of the creatures with which we share the earth.

Located 500 miles from 41 percent of the US population and 59 percent of Canada's with access to 25 percent of the world's fresh water, Western New York is poised to take advantage of its many assets and strengths — such as a tourism sector with international acclaim; relatively low costs of living and doing business; an educated and skilled workforce; and strong aggregate household income.

A long - term study of life history and government records reveals a disproportionately large set of social costs devoted to a relatively small sector of the population.

The report stated that China had done well at raising life expectancy, adult literacy and access to higher education, though work remained in other sectors, such as adjusting the proportion of the population living in the countryside.

Each regional model sector will encompass power generation, transmission, and sale; the financing, construction, and maintenance of power infrastructure (generators and transmission lines); and also key societal and environmental factors such as population, quality of life, and pollution.

Settlements are important because they are where most of the world's population live, often in concentrations that imply vulnerabilities to location - specific events and processes and, like industry and certain other sectors of concern, they are distinctive in the presence of physical capital (buildings, infrastructures) that may be slow to change.

Second, and now as a matter of practical policy - making reality, at a time when governments seem unwilling to devote more attention or expenditure to public provision of legal services for people living on low income, exploring ways to harness private sector innovations may be the most realistic avenue for improving access to justice for that segment of the population.

The prospective scenarios proposed by this report are based on a number of hypothetical social, economical and cultural situations, among others an ageing population, a changing socio - cultural reality due to immigration, a deepening divide between the rich and the poor, the omnipresence of IT in all sectors of society, the inability of the «welfare state» to maintain its offer of public services and goods, the feminization of the legal practice, a growing focus on quality of life, new business models, a transnational practice of law and a shift in influence from the West to the East.

Since a large sector of the population feel that term life insurance is the best buy many companies have been forced to rethink their policy and pay more attention to bettering the term insurance policies.

In addition the document does not conceal the problems facing the indigenous populations, this sector which finds itself in a great disadvantage within Australian society, in practically all aspects affecting the quality of life, housing for instance, health, employment, and education.