(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.
Subsistence
Definition:
(n.) Real being; existence.
(n.) Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies.
(n.) That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence.
(n.) Same as Hypostasis, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Assessment of nutritional status of vitamin B components by plasma or blood levels indicated riboflavin deficiency and possibly thiamine deficiency in Nigerian patients who suffered from tropical ataxic neuropathy and neurologically normal Nigerians who subsisted on predominant cassava diet.
(2) Mr Mutsa, typical of several million subsistence farmers who farm on average just 0.4 hectares (one acre) yet make up 85% of Malawi's agricultural production, cycled 30 miles to bring his daughter to the hospital in Nsanje, in the far south of Malawi, where four nurses work in its nutrition rehabilitation unit.
(3) The results indicate that a gonadotropic potency subsists in the pituitary even after 20 days of isolated culture.
(4) Socioeconomic variation in the growth status of 293 children, 6 through 13 years of age, from a rural subsistence agricultural community in southern Mexico was considered.
(5) RDE: I wouldn't expect the head of Oxfam to subsist on gruel, but I'd like charity workers to see their jobs as vocations rather than a well-paid career providing both generous financial rewards and the opportunity to pontificate from the moral high ground.
(6) They emphasised upon the necessity of evoked potentials, CT-Scan with contrast and eventually MNR examination specially usefull in cholesteatoma when some doubt subsists.
(7) fractures involving the zygoma, the upper jaw or other orbital bone alteraions and deviations of the bony orbital contours and also of the orbital contents can subsist, even after primary operative correction.
(8) Controversy subsists about interpretations of "delayed cholinergic blanch" in atopic dermatitis.
(9) The study population of 130,000 consisted mainly of subsistence cultivators who live in remote hamlets, and included about 27,600 women between the ages of 15 and 49 years.
(10) And he says it certainly did not give him the right to tell African subsistence farmers how to live.
(11) The highest intakes were observed in individuals subsisting on diets rich in whole wheat grain cereal products and seafoods.
(12) The purposes were: (1) to compare the Mesolithic sample with the later Nubian populations; and (2) to evaluate further the hypothesis that change in Nubian craniofacial morphology was due to changing functional demands associated with the progressive change in subsistence adaptation and associated behavior.
(13) For indigenous subsistence harvest communities in Alaska that rely on the availability of seals and whales, that will mean a way of life, and – even more simply – meals on the line.
(14) These physical impairments would have greatly interfered with the individual's participation in subsistence activities and would have been a substantial handicap in a nomadic hunting and gathering group.
(15) It was likely that time demands from subsistence farming and income generating activities also affected service utilization, but the women probably interpreted the question on employment incorrectly.
(16) Subsistance strategies this Toba group has adopted are quite similar to the strategies other marginal or subaltern groups resort to.
(17) However, many thousands have to wait longer than three weeks because of the backlog, so they subsist on the basics and rely on family and friends to help tide them over until the paperwork is complete.
(18) Uddin was facing allegations over a £100,000 claim in allowances, and Lord Clarke of Hampstead, a former party chairman, admitted his "terrible error" in claiming up to £18,000 a year for overnight subsistence when he often stayed with friends in London or returned home to St Albans, Hertfordshire.
(19) Two related Tupí-Mondê-speaking tribes of the Aripuanã Indian Park of western Brazil are compared in terms of their recent contact with Western culture, subsistence patterns, general health, and blood pressure levels.
(20) The quantitative relationships between dietary energy intake and weight gain in pregnancy, birthweight and lactation performance during the first three months of infancy have been studied in such a way as to take account of major differences in the patterns of heavy manual labour at different times of the year in a subsistence farming community.