What's the difference between adversity and poverty?

Adversity


Definition:

  • (n.) Opposition; contrariety.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There fore, the adverse effects may be induced by such quartz or silicon compounds.
  • (2) The following is a brief review of the history, mechanism of action, and potential adverse effects of neuromuscular blockers.
  • (3) This modified endocrine activity in brook trout may reflect adjustment to adverse external ionic conditions.
  • (4) The AL plus EA produced significantly greater adverse effects than with SFO plus EA.
  • (5) Mild, significant improvement was noted in one of the hearing components, "attenuation," and an adverse effect was shown on "distortion," owing to noise.
  • (6) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
  • (7) Adverse outcomes were reported more frequently by consultant physicians, by those who 'titrated' the intravenous sedative, and by those who used an additional intravenous agent, but were reported equally frequently by endoscopists using midazolam and endoscopists using diazepam.
  • (8) Only an extensive knowledge of the various mechanisms and pharmacologic agents that can be used to prevent or treat these adverse reactions will allow the physician to approach the problem scientifically and come to a reasonable solution for the patient.
  • (9) The prognosis was adversely affected by obesity, preoperative flexion contracture of 30 degrees or more, wound-healing problems, wound infection, and postoperative manipulation under general anesthesia.
  • (10) One thousand singleton low-risk pregnancies were cross-sectionally studied at 36-40 weeks gestation with continuous-wave Doppler ultrasonography in order to assess its usefulness as an antepartum monitoring technique for the identification of fetuses at risk of developing an adverse outcome.
  • (11) The relatively high concentrations of desethylchloroquine and bisdesethylchloroquine found during chronic treatment show the need for more information about the therapeutic value and adverse effects of the metabolites.
  • (12) Urinary incontinence present between 7 and 10 days after stroke was the most important adverse prognostic factor both for survival and for recovery of function.
  • (13) Long-term treatment with agents that stimulate the beta-receptor (prenalterol and pirbuterol) has not proved to be useful in the treatment of chronic heart failure; moreover, prolonged treatment with beta-agonists (dobutamine and pirbuterol) may adversely affect survival.
  • (14) Since ASA has a greater potential for adverse effects, paracetamol is increasingly preferred to ASA, particularly in children.
  • (15) When a product is selected for a patient, consideration should be given to necessity, efficacy, adverse effects, and cost-effectiveness.
  • (16) The presence of prostatic invasion either into the stroma or involving prostatic ducts and acini only had no adverse effect on outcome.
  • (17) Oocytes obtained by laparoscopy were compared with those obtained under ultrasonic guidance to determine whether CO2 exposure had any adverse effect.
  • (18) It is mentioned that the lack of a valuable status for industrial physicians may adversely affect the evolution of training programs in Switzerland.
  • (19) Alternatively, the data presented herein strongly suggest that diets containing conventional quantities of fat, in which saturated fat is replaced by unsaturated fat and dietary cholesterol reduced, would result in the desired reductions to total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations without the adverse effects of increased postprandial glucose and insulin concentrations, increased fasting and postprandial total and very-low-density lipoprotein triglyceride concentrations, and decreased fasting high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations.
  • (20) "I have to say that it is my expectation that they probably can be, because the data that we have to date is unlikely to show an adverse impact."

Poverty


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
  • (n.) Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
  • (2) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
  • (3) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
  • (4) That's why the Trussell Trust has been calling for an in depth inquiry into the causes of food poverty.
  • (5) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
  • (6) Years of education completed and poverty status did not significantly affect folate concentrations; however, the prevalence of low folate concentrations among users of vitamin or mineral supplements was significantly lower than it was among nonusers in selected subgroups.
  • (7) "Due to much higher housing costs, one in seven of London's employees receives wages which are below the poverty threshold," says Mr Livingstone.
  • (8) After adjusting for health status, persons below poverty were shown to have significantly fewer physician contacts than persons above poverty.
  • (9) He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder.
  • (10) World leaders must reach a historic agreement to fight climate change and poverty at coming talks in Paris, facing the stark choice to either “improve or destroy the environment”, Pope Francis said in Africa on Thursday.
  • (11) Mother's oligophrenia, poverty, and familial unbalance were underlying causes.
  • (12) The potential benefits [of AI research] are huge, since everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools AI may provide, but the eradication of disease and poverty are not unfathomable,” the letter reads.
  • (13) "While the country is sunk in misery, families are ruined and children are growing up in poverty, this guy turns up and we pay €91m for him.
  • (14) The report was published on the same day that the charity Christians Against Poverty said it expects its free debt counselling service to experience its busiest day on record.
  • (15) He railed against the left’s lack of interest in tackling entrenched poverty.
  • (16) Families fear that after April’s disaster the cycle of poverty in the region will be intensified.
  • (17) In Britain you have all the things we have here – gangs, poverty, racism.
  • (18) Yet … real incomes did not rise and absolute poverty was unchanged."
  • (19) This is supposed to happen without pushing up energy bills excessively or extending fuel poverty.
  • (20) The cycle of events which leads to an impairment of the immune response in the malnourished child includes poverty, food deprivation and frequent infections.