Sentences with phrase «whose lack of access»

But their economics would really shine for isolated towns whose lack of access to central power grids has forced them to rely on dirty and costly - to - run diesel generators.

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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..

Understanding the mechanism that determines seed permeability could also give researchers better access to the largely untapped genetic diversity of wild soybeans to enrich cultivated varieties, whose lack of genetic richness has curbed improvements in yields.

The problems cited include employees having access to select agents they were unauthorized to work with; one faculty member performing a recombinant DNA experiment with a toxin, even though the experiment had not gained the necessary CDC approval; workers lacking the appropriate protective gear; three missing vials of brucella; and three individuals whose blood registered elevated levels of the bacterium and select agent Coxiella burnetii, which causes Q fever, a normally treatable disease.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Skloot gained unprecedented access to the family and life story of Lacks, whose namesake HeLa cells became a standard tool of biomedical research.

And it's a sad fact that the schools that do get closed almost always have some kids attending them — and these kids, too often, are the least fortunate youngsters of all, boys and girls whose families lack the means, the concern, or the savvy to access better options for their sons and daughters than the neighborhood school whose continued existence can not be justified on any other grounds.

This definition includes legal work affecting broad areas of public concern including the legal rights of consumers, the elderly, minorities, the poor, and groups whose legal rights are not otherwise adequately represented and who traditionally lack access to the courts.

The 18th district is currently represented in the Senate by Jeff Dial, whose voting record belies a lack of support for contraception access — his vote for HB 2599 helped lay the groundwork to deny state Medicaid recipients the right to receive preventive health care and birth control from Planned Parenthood — as well as his opposition to abortion — as illustrated by his vote in favor of SB 1324, which put severe restrictions around the use of medication abortion, which don't even comply with FDA regulations.