condition of poverty
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconditionandpoverty
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condition
noun
uk/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/us/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/
the particular state that something or someone ...
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poverty
noun[U]
uk/ˈpɒv.ə.ti/us/ˈpɑː.vɚ.t̬i/
the condition of being ...
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(Definition ofconditionandpovertyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Secondly, the population endures harsh conditions of poverty.
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We must tackle the conditions of poverty and need which drive much of that crime.
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It is in conditions of poverty, despair and hopelessness that totalitarian systems of government are most likely to gain sway.
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These refugees are living in conditions of poverty and squalor.
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The order exacerbates those conditions of poverty.
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This fluidity of poor people's homes also reflected the fluidity of theconditionofpoverty.
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Would he suggest that welfare services are applicable only in aconditionofpovertyin the country?
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How can we best help those who are in aconditionofpoverty?
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That industry, it is indeed true, is admittedly in aconditionofpoverty, and that condition is becoming one of general destitution.
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My thirdconditionofpovertywas lack of technical knowledge.
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My explanation of the failure of the tuberculosis death-rate to recede still further is theconditionofpovertyin which so many people are living.
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It portrays the dailyconditionofpovertyof the society.
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Under conditions of poverty and high life stress, parents are exposed to negative experiences over which they have little control.
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Much of this crime occurs in conditions of poverty.
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For others, the relevant structures may be positive characteristics such as high intelligence and resourcefulness in conjunction with conditions of poverty, poor parent monitoring, and/ or a criminogenic neighborhood.
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Harsh conditions of poverty are responsible for depriving many thousands of the higher education which is their basic human right.
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Many of the others will be living in conditions of poverty.
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The conditions of poverty in which so many old-age pensioners exist to-day are absolutely intolerable in a civilised society.
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To-day, world statesmanship is faced with another supreme task: to remove the intolerable conditions of poverty which engulf two-thirds of the world's population.
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It is the most enterprising, the young and the restless, those who are not reconciled to the conditions of poverty there who go away.
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