Sentences with phrase «someone lacks access»

Emergency responders and volunteers, lacking access to the internet, needed hyper - local coordination, so nearby Occupy Wall Street veterans who were familiar with Celly used the service to coordinate transportation, logistics, food donations, blankets and clothing among 2,500 users.

That same rural / urban divide is evident in my home state — Missouri — where as many as 60 % of rural residents lack access to high - speed Internet.

However environmental compliance teams often lack access to that data which may prevent them from confirming that programs are administered according to local regulations.

As many developed countries have brought almost their entire populations online, Google is keen to help connect the future of its Internet users who lack access to the Internet.

Lacking access to the American market, many entrepreneurs are flocking to other areas of the world where they believe their companies have a greater chance at success.

But both countries lack access to the Pacific Coast.

Swaminathan says that many students in China lacked access to cutting - edge management education after graduating from college.

Pong said that will go some way to helping the 663 million people globally who lack access to uncontaminated water.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

Their experience overseas broadened their awareness of large populations of people who lack access to good medical care.

After all, Canada is oil independent, yet refineries in Quebec and the Atlantic provinces, lacking access to western Canadian oil, import crude from Algeria and the U.K. Subject to no tariffs and few other import restrictions, raw energy is a freely traded commodity that follows the dictates of the market.

Their simple premise: The falling costs of solar power and LED lights made it possible to provide affordable lighting for the 2 billion or so global consumers who lack access to reliable power.

With the shift from pensions to individual savings, gone are the days when many retirees could rely on a regular check when they retire — and as many as half of all workers lack access to employer - sponsored retirement accounts at all.

LifeStraw Safe Water Fund People in Puerto Rico still lack access to clean drinking water — here you can send them individual filters or one large enough to supply a small village.

On the one hand, new liquidity providers are likely to have fewer incentives to support market liquidity under more stressed conditions, because they lack access to any ancillary revenues from their clients.

Connecticut: Nearly 600,000 workers lack access to a workplace retirement plan in the state of Connecticut.

Community Financial Services Association of America, the largest trade group for payday lenders, says the rule would «virtually eliminate» their business model, which provides short - term loans to millions of low - income consumers who lack access to credit cards or bank loans.

«Today, seven out of ten people lack access to even the most basic electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Clean the World recycles partially used bars of soap and bottled amenities from resorts in the United States and distributes the new soap and hygiene kits to communities that lack access to these essential items.

Sunfarmer, which supplies solar energy services to rural communities lacking access to reliable and affordable electricity by providing technology and innovative financing solutions.

But many of these emerging entrepreneurs — especially women entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs of color — lack access to the human and social capital to grow their enterprises and expand their impact.

Angels and venture capital invest heavily in healthcare, but most investors lack access and the ability to navigate healthcare's complexity.

The bank also became a «corresponding bank» with mainstream banks, making banking services available to those in the favela: like many areas of the UK, Brazil's favelas have lacked access to basic financial services15.

A billion people around the world lack access to health care.

Such an infrastructure is desperately needed because more than 70 % of Filipinos lack access to a bank account and just 3 % of them use credit and debit cards (as per the NOAHCOIN whitepaper estimates).

In particular, some middle to higher - income households are not adequately prepared for retirement — either because they do not contribute enough to workplace retirement savings plans or because they lack access to employer - sponsored plans and have below - average personal savings.

However, most Americans lack access to the training that would allow them to enter tech careers, particularly those with the fewest resources and the most to gain from developing valuable new skills.

Issues ranged from lacking access to market intelligence to the hardships with sales due to the economic downturn.

Consumers who currently shell out over $ 2,400 a year in interest and fees to payday lenders lack access to a traditional bank could tap the benefits of banking at the post office, argues this 2014 white paper from the Inspector General of the U.S. Postal Service.

Making matters worse, companies lacked access to capital markets due to the Argentina sovereign debt default in 2001.

Tens of millions of Americans lack access to workplace retirement plans, leaving them at - risk of not meeting their financial...

A comment on one specific point: you claim that one reason people are becoming Christians is that they lack access to information.

There are more than 220 million women in developing countries who don't want to get pregnant, but who lack access to family planning information and contraceptives.

The State Department made the rule because persecuted Christians often lack access to religious training and literature.

Once again, such resources are the envy of those secular counselors who lack access to community support groups that could be part of the healing process.

Caring in a pastoral way about these larger contexts means, in part, exploring the needs of those who are underserved and who lack access to necessary support systems because of race, economic class, gender or sexual orientation.

The U.N. met the goal of doubling access to water, but the world is behind in ensuring healthy water access: 2.5 billion people and almost 1 billion children still lack access to basic sanitation, and more than 2 million tons of human waste are released in waterways in developing countries on a daily basis, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

And «more than half of the 3.4 million residents lacking access to clean drinking water,» according to POLITICO.

In culture and society we therefore lack all access to social pasts unless a novelist re-creates their features or preservers ensure that a hallowed building can endure into a new generation.

The churches of the world are a global communication system through which the voices of those rendered voiceless because they lack access to the media can be raised to question societal trends that may be antithetical to justice, freedom and human dignity.

There are 220 million women around the world who say they wish to avoid pregnancies but lack access to any effective contraceptives, counseling, or services.

My last point and Im out... Throughout our great nations history... we always found a way to fight through national issues and come up with solutions... Giving the problems we have now to people in the 50's and 60's... and they may actually come up with a solution... if you earnestly care about making a change... start at the lowest levels of government... go do something... find out costs... expenses... how to get more health care to people... do things like that... quit waiting on the government to provide all the answers... its not the way this country was founded... and not the way we get through problems... If you or ur family does nt have insurance... get a job that can provide you that... instead of hoping the government will do so... If you or ur family lacks access to education... move to an area that excels at it... education is invaluable... Do something about your problem... and quit waiting for the next big lotto...

In 2000 1.1 billion people lacked access to safe water and 2.4 billion to sanitation services.

What is not available to those who lack access to education is the text in the original languages — all translations are, inescapably, interpretations at the outset.

In Rwanda and Burundi, more than one in four rural residents have no access to an improved water source; in Kenya, nearly half the rural population lacks access.

One in nine people worldwide lacks access to safe drinking water.

Most small - scale family farmers live in remote locations and lack access to credit, so they are vulnerable to middlemen who offer cash for their coffee at a fraction of its value.

In fact, water is the most important ingredient to life and unfortunately 2.5 billion people lack access to clean water.

Efforts to eradicate hunger are stalling within the Asia - Pacific, with almost 500 million people in the region lacking access to sufficient food.

Nearly 1 billion people in the world today lack access to adequate water and 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation.