Sentences with phrase «there lack access»

Most of the people there lack access to a secure, inexpensive global food system.

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Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, said there's a «lack of interest and lack of support for mutual and impartial humanitarian access to Syrian people» among the international community.

There's the familiar refrain about the lack of access to capital.

«Children are particularly vulnerable to waterborne diseases and as there have been no vaccinations in Syria for more than four or five years due to a lack of access, young children are more likely to get sick.»

Those policies include giving access to free land to select businesses (there is no land ownership in China), offering below - market loans, the near total lack of environmental standards, and policies that suppress wage growth.

While more female - run networks are emerging, there is a lack of access to informal networks where women can make important connections.

«There's just a lack of capital and funding gap for small businesses, and it's really magnified in the U.S., where the financial meltdown of 2008 left a lot of businesses unable to access bank financing,» he says, adding social media has also been an immense help in promoting crowdfunding platforms.

There is a glaring lack of access to financial services in several parts of the world.

What I mean is in emerging markets there is a great lack of access to financial instruments to save or participate in commerce outside of their region.

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.

There is still a lack of access to safe drinking water, leading to preventable deaths.

There is nothing remotely similar for English - speaking Christians, and without it people lacking command of classical languages and access to university libraries have no first - hand knowledge of the past.

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.

The ACCC would not comment, but in its recent bulk wheat port access report noted: «Given the lack of access to alternate supply chains it is not surprising that there is a high level of concern within industry about the effect of rebates recently announced by CBH for users of its supply chain, and the impact on grain trading and competition for port terminal and related bulk export supply chain operations.»

A disadvantage is the lack of access; without furrows, there are no walkways to the plants.

Also, there is this total lack of competence, lack of support and lack of access to accurate information.

«There are these nutritional food deserts everywhere you look, and there's a lack of access to education at the point of There are these nutritional food deserts everywhere you look, and there's a lack of access to education at the point of there's a lack of access to education at the point of sale.

There are several possible causes for speech delays in young children: neurological causes, behavioural difficulties, and lack of access to appropriate stimuli are among them, and multiple factors could be at play.

Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..

There lies the dilemma: Provide kids with essential nutrients lacking in their diet, or limit their access to sugary, high - calorie foods?

According to Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign, there are 23.5 million Americans — including 6.5 million children — who live in rural and urban areas across the country who lack access to convenient and affordable nutritious foods known as «food deserts.»

DiNapoli says that they were there to «reinforce» the complaint he got when state legislators interviewed him before appointing him to the comptroller post, namely that «there was a lack of access for minority firms» when Alan Hevesi, DiNapoli's predecessor, was comptroller.

According to the ex-president: «There is no lack of willingness to engage in agriculture by women» but observed factors such as male - dominated land holding systems and lack of access to finance for agricultural production among others, have limited the participation of women in the agric sector.

The problem is that across the country there is an absolute lack of urgency on the part of state parties in achieving ballot access.

«Does that mean that people are getting access to safe and efficacious interventions or is there basically unapproved human experimentation taking place where people are going to these businesses and receiving experimental investigational cell - based interventions without being given a meaningful account of the lack of knowledge and evidence that they're being charged for?»

«In rural settings, there are often barriers to health services that women face, including stigma, cultural concerns of confidentiality and trust, lack of anonymity, and lack of access and providers.»

There were several factors contributing to the increased risk, including not only the desert and more equatorial latitudes, but also the length of sunlight exposure day to day, and, among many service members, a lack of training regarding the dangers of sun exposure and limited access to sunscreen.

The number of people who lack access to clean water has been cut nearly in half since 2000, though at 550 million, or around 8 percent of the world's population, there is still much room for improvement.

There are many cases that are not suitable for this approach, ranging from the patient's anatomical issues to some surgeons» lack of access to endoscopes or experience with them.

Talking with a lot of people there and learning more about the lack of opportunity to earn a fair wage, provide for families, have access to clean drinking water, etc. etc. etc. got me even more fired up.

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The EPI says that if the government believes that introducing the Opportunity Areas initiative would address the lack of access to a high performing school, then its analysis suggests that there should be one in the North East.

Zoom out to promote understanding on the systems level: Explore whether there are larger systemic forces that underlie the challenges students have touched on (such as racism, sexism, or lack of access to resources).

There are students who sound fluent in English, who can carry on conversations, but lack the fluency in English academic discourse to access complicated content or to express their understandings.

While there, Alejandro became frustrated that his students — and millions more in low - income communities — lacked continuous access to learning at home and school.

As I said earlier, the lack of a national, strategic approach to teacher training means that there are challenging areas of the country without ready access to the best newly qualified teachers.

Along these lines, Cheri indicated that technology was not being used enough in most classrooms and that there was a lack of variety when it came to the kinds of technology that her students could access.

NUT Cymru secretary David Evans added that there were «significant barriers» to promoting better collaboration between schools or better access to professional development «from a lack of high quality training provision, a lack of financial resources to release teachers or workload pressures making non-classroom activity almost impossible».

Within every school district, there are economically disadvantaged students who lack access to broadband Internet when they leave school.

«And there's still millions of girls around the world who aren't getting an education, not just because of the lack of resources or not having access to schools... there are cultural barriers that are keeping young girls down.»

Teach First's report highlights that there is no shortage of teachers wanting to make the step up, but they often lack access to the training they need.

The resolution cited the fact that charter boards accept public money but lack democratic accountability, that charter schools are contributing to increased segregation, that punitive disciplinary policies are disproportionately used in charter schools as well as other practices that violate students» rights, that there is a pattern of fraud of mismanagement in the sector in general, and it then called for opposition to privatization of education, opposed diversion of funding from public schools, called for full funding for quality public education, called for legislation granting parents access to charter school boards and to strengthen oversight, called for charter schools to follow USDOJ and USDOE guidelines on student discipline and to help parents file complaints when those guidelines are violated, opposed efforts to weaken oversight, and called for a moratorium on charter school growth.

There's plenty of room for those sitting up front, but the rear bench lacks legroom for taller passengers, while access to the back is tight on three - door cars.

Lack of access to vehicles not sold in the United States but for which there is demand for products overseas.

It's easy to access the third - row seats, but legroom is lacking back there.

But there's a disturbing social issue that in some ways is even more heartbreaking: individuals who have the ability to read but still lack the access to a book.

The library is based in a predominately Hispanic, low - income neighborhood, where 75 % of the population lacks Internet access, yet that's precisely why the $ 2.4 million facility was built there, said County Judge Nelson Wolff, who envisioned it when he had an epiphany after reading the life story of Apple founder Steve Jobs.

They could no longer grow food for their children because nutrients in the soil were depleted; they had no access to firewood, which was their main source of energy; livestock suffered because there was no vegetation to graze on; and streams were drying up or were polluted by soil runoff, resulting in a lack of drinking water.

You've shown why Android isn't ready to be considered an iPad alternative, based on the lack of apps, but there are Windows tablets out there in the world with access to more «apps» than the iPad could ever hope for.

Sadly, Amazon kindle Fire is lacking camera and 3G connectivity and there is no access for Android Market.