How To Use Disadvantaged In A Sentence

A new educational programme has been set up for economically disadvantaged children.
Studies done in the UK of children from two to 11 years show that high early achievers from disadvantaged backgrounds are overtaken between age five and 10 by low early achievers from advantaged backgrounds.
The University is considering plans to introduce more rigorous target quotas for admissions of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
A major piece of research, commissioned by Media Trust, reveals there is an opportunity for Community Voices to add real value to current media activities within disadvantaged and isolated communities. 2009 November « Using technology in the voluntary and community sector
Part - time workers, the majority of whom are women, are doubly disadvantaged.

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The Fund will support research projects intended to lead to an increased understanding of personal factors, social arrangements, social institutions and physical factors affecting the well being of disesteemed or disadvantaged persons.
A spouse earning equal income who is left with dependent children to both support and to care for can be seriously disadvantaged.
I do understand the frustration with indisciplined schools though which of course hurts the most disadvantaged most. Whacko ?
Every year I give a donation to the Arizona School Choice Trust. 100% of the money so donated is then used to give tuition grants to ecconomically disadvantaged students to help pay for private tuition. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Latest School Choice Controversy Now Before the Supreme Court
The most disadvantaged families did not feel comfortable coming in. Times, Sunday Times
We pledge to use our skills, resources and energy, through individual and collective action, to empower disadvantaged people, eliminate racism and promote a non-racial society whose resources are used to the benefit of all its people.
He is studying for a qualification in working with disadvantaged young people in Sheffield. Times, Sunday Times
One of the most intriguing aspects of the race was the fact that Excel Bolt came alone along the stands side rail, indicating that runners who decide to go down the nearside at this meeting may not be disadvantaged. Talking Horses special: Royal Ascot, day three, live!
They weep crocodile tears for the poor and disadvantaged but are basically happy with things as they are.
First, his proposal to appoint ‘socially disadvantaged,’ voting members to local boards gives those members a second ingredient to what they already have, appointive representation.
Treasury does, however, recognise a social dimension to education and recommends government intervention to help the disadvantaged.
Bristol has spent more than 18m since 2006 on recruiting and supporting students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Times, Sunday Times
Do you think the downtrodden and the disadvantaged got rights just by asking the wealthy and powerful really nicely?
She said she was not hugely disadvantaged by not having the financial backing of a large party.
Other critics who thought the president's proposals do not go far enough have pressed for additional funds to provide tutors to help disadvantaged students meet the proposed standards in mathematics and reading.
We are disadvantaged by talking about longer-term fearful consequences that are harder to sell when the other side is saying, for example, that Repower America is going to make things worse "tomorrow" by causing good jobs to be lost. Steven G. Brant: Reinventing Repower America: Our Only Hope for Winning the Climate Change Battle in America
There is every chance for women and the economically disadvantaged to enter on the same level as anybody else.
And while record numbers of disadvantaged students are going to university, a gap still persists depending on a student's background. Times, Sunday Times
She is working with the YMCA branch in Rousse to help disadvantaged children.
With fatherlessness a growing problem, this failure wreaks havoc, particularly in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Times, Sunday Times
So your dandy is promoting a 60s era NIMBY mindset that is likely just headed towards making the socially disadvantaged even more entrenched in their poverty, and more desperate in their behaviours. Boarding the House | Her Bad Mother
Some felt coursework penalised boys, especially those from socially disadvantaged backgrounds.
Some seem to regard it as a kind of elitist ploy designed to make things difficult for the disadvantaged.
A bus tour of Soweto was instrumental in showcasing the progress made in greening disadvantaged areas since the World Summit
Charlotte evidently believes that women are so socially disadvantaged that they must strike, like bandits, when opportunity offers - and if necessary dissimulate to get their prize.
Those with disabilities can find themselves disadvantaged and sometimes victimised.
They'll return in October to help with a group who are building houses for disadvantaged people.
There would appear to be scope for institutions and policy makers to reduce barriers to participation particularly for the financially disadvantaged.
The Foundation will also give opportunities for disadvantaged young people in the performing arts. The Sun
Donation and inheritance transactions accounted for a relatively small area of the farmland transferred to disadvantaged people.
He speaks on behalf of millions of poor and disadvantaged people who have too few advocates.
And before leaving New York three years ago, he tutored disadvantaged students in Washington Heights and served as a mentor in a Big Brother-like program.
No longer will our students and communities need to feel disadvantaged because of isolation or shortage of resources.
He cited a case where a circuit court judge made a ruling on a point of law which disadvantaged the prosecution.
The union faced the task of ensuring that the balance of resources between previously advantaged and disadvantaged areas as well as in skills development was maintained.
While at Stanford, Wender interned for various community organizations and realized there were few services solely for disadvantaged or in-crisis children.
The same is true of so many well-intentioned schemes for the socially disadvantaged and the rural poor.
Her methods were honed teaching in a string of primary schools in relatively disadvantaged London boroughs.
McNeil "did not see sufficient focus on the role of teacher-librarians in critically addressing the needs of the increasing numbers of racial, cultural, economically disadvantaged, and linguistic minority students who were not doing well in school literacy and other areas critical to success in schools and life. October 2008
The move has fuelled resentment and protests among ‘plains’ people who fear they will be disadvantaged in the new state.
The disadvantaged students for whom antielitist solicitude is expressed are the very ones who suffer when we fail to introduce traditional literate culture into the earliest grades. The Theory Behind the Dictionary: Cultural Literacy and Education
Teenage mothers are more likely to be single parents and economically disadvantaged. An Introduction to Community Health
Of course Laura Johnson, from a £1m house in Orpington, or Alexis Bailey, a classroom assistant in a primary school, were apparently caught up with the disadvantaged looters. UK riots: Our wounded nation will not be healed by vengeful gestures | Will Hutton and Henry Porter
Some employers with unusual business models or a paucity of credit rating agency data might be disadvantaged. Times, Sunday Times
In these books and films he shows his understanding of the difficult lives of disadvantaged families.
It will only be an administrative headquarters so how it will bring theatre to the heart of disadvantaged areas, is none too clear.
African American authors found themselves doubly disadvantaged by the literary restrictions of the pastoral.
Many disadvantaged people will find an outlet for their abilities through whatever channels remain open.
Given the forces of self-selection, they worried that those who were relatively disadvantaged members of society and driven by economic necessity would fill the lower ranks of the all-volunteer force.
Particularly in disadvantaged areas, this perception of one's own power as a parent seems to be a promising avenue for attenuating the potentially harmful effects of the environment on children's development.
Although they deliver good results, it is not those from disadvantaged backgrounds who benefit. The Sun
Much of contemporary society seems disadvantaged by a management view that extends not much beyond immediate profit preoccupations.
Members of a disadvantaged group would merely exercise the option to join the privileged group.
Well intentioned because it seeks to redress a real problem: far too few students from disadvantaged backgrounds are applying to university. Times, Sunday Times
It's amusing/nauseous/eyeballbleed-causing that the highly tarnished "pots" (the Cable, Telco and Wireless monopolies) are calling the ideologically disadvantaged "kettles" black. Multichannel News: Business News
City academies are publicly-funded independent secondary schools, given more freedom than normal state schools to help them raise standards in disadvantaged urban areas.
The term digital divide indicates those individuals who are advantaged versus those who are relatively disadvantaged by the Internet and helps illuminate our understanding of inequality in the consequences of innovation. Diffusion of Innovations
Individuals, even from very disadvantaged backgrounds, can and do pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. Times, Sunday Times
We owe it to our children and our children's children and to those in developing countries disadvantaged today by our profligate and extravagant Western lifestyles to be more environmentally responsible.
The business park will help regenerate this area disadvantaged by years of industrial decay and dereliction.
They gave disadvantaged young people a top shelf academic education, or sound vocational training. Christianity Today
The charitable assistance provided by the foundation was a fine effort to support the disadvantaged in our society.
I definitely had advantages but was disadvantaged too that people could dismiss me. Times, Sunday Times
They consist of highly mobile young people and families, commuters, and tourists, as well as disadvantaged groups such as refugees.
Unlike most societies, the social profile of persons treated as criminal was not weighted towards the poor and otherwise disadvantaged.
And all of this, and all of these things tell us that America has been backlashing on the whole question of basic constitutional and God-given rights for Negroes and other disadvantaged groups for more than 300 years. April « 2008 « Bill Ayers
I notice that there's … you've earmarked half a million dollars for under … what they call disadvantaged schools. Australian Government Media Releases [All Portfolios]
The perhaps equally numerous periti (experts and consultants who included some of the world's greatest scholars) were even more disadvantaged.
The NCVYS chief executive, Susanne Rauprich, said: By failing to take a comprehensive view of the cumulative impact that the cuts agenda places on young people, we are risking unintended consequences that could in the long term prevent a large number of young people, and in particular those that are already disadvantaged, from realising their true potential. 'Savage' cuts to youth spending could rob a generation of chances
His latest endeavour is the Pay It Forward bike tour in 2007 where his goal is to raise $1 million for disadvantaged youth. Top 20 Under 20
He has given $50,000 in personal funds to endow two scholarships for students of disadvantaged backgrounds.
If we wanted to bully the weak, we’d support the kind of enervating garbage that liberals have spent the last fifty years trying to push onto the disadvantaged. What Some Feminists Demanded in 1967
We need to build new stadia and other sporting arenas promptly in order not to be disadvantaged at critical times.
There will just be some special scholarships for the very disadvantaged or the exceptionally brilliant.
These students not only were economically disadvantaged but were, by definition, academically disadvantaged as well.
There are also benefits with regeneration of disadvantaged areas.
He said existing research already showed deprived patients were disadvantaged in the health care system. Times, Sunday Times
Larger discounts have been proposed for projects that allocate larger shares of equity to disadvantaged people.
We're providing very little incentive for students from social and economically disadvantaged backgrounds to come into education.
BBoth men grew up in small Southern towns in relatively deprived circumstances, with an appreciation for the suffering of the disadvantaged.
The idea that one owes special help to those most unfairly disadvantaged is not in way like the idea that one may go out of one's way to help those like oneself (in my case, white and male) however great their advantages, and however unfairly those advantages may have been achieved and sustained. Discourse.net: Sotomayor is Lucky in Her Enemies
The university has announced plans to increase the number of students from minority and disadvantaged groups.
It was intended to help the creation of jobs and increased prosperity in disadvantaged areas.
One of his oldest friends suggested his support for such people derived from his own disadvantaged childhood. Times, Sunday Times
Hailwood also has plans to develop a long-term link with a nursery serving a disadvantaged community in Cape Flats, South Africa. London SE1 community website
Could it be that when you grow up knowing that you are a disadvantaged minority in a society, you also "lessen" your dreams? JSOnline.com
In Harrison's view, it is important for the disadvantaged children to mesh with the ‘regular’ children.
Indeed, it was the pressure from this large and disadvantaged constituency that helped to establish vernacular literary education.
The Engineering School had an extensive program of its own for disadvantaged students.
Life - even for those of us who grew up "disadvantaged" is not a universal constant. Debating Black Books
There would appear to be scope for institutions and policy makers to reduce barriers to participation particularly for the financially disadvantaged.
Common language and considerable wealth has greatly assisted the US in assimilating much artistry from overseas, but is disadvantaged to Japan in as much as it has never had to accept another culture for its own survival.
So, in that respect, the accused was not disadvantaged in terms of preparation time.
The term interview has been removed for the 2009 selection and we can confirm that no interviews have taken place and no child has been disadvantaged. Witchfinder Balls
Often in a blowout, the referees will give the disadvantaged team some breaks.
Lief and Zarin-Ackerman 1980 noted synonyms for the term deprivation: “disadvantaged, high risk, culturally poor, disorganized and crisis oriented.” Clinical Work with Adolescents
Sweden is not generally reckoned to have a particularly disadvantaged working class.
It also aims to support, inform and inspire vulnerable and disadvantaged young people to help them reach their full potential. The Sun
We will also use our presidency to help ensure that poorer countries are not disadvantaged as a result of the Single Market.
While much of the population understandably gets squeamish at the idea of businesses making money out of the elderly and the disadvantaged, there is a market that has to be served.
One of the tasks of the democratic government is therefore to deracialize income, opportunities, ownership and access to the economy, to effect redistribution in the interests of development and growth and in the interests of the historically disadvantaged. Uprooting the Demon of Racism
Families in disadvantaged neighborhoods aren't the only victims of the lottery nightmare depicted in Waiting for 'Superman.' Jacqueline Edelberg: Principals Can't Go It Alone
A group of professionals plans to launch an ambitious training project aimed at disadvantaged and disabled people.
Both my sister and step-mother have incredibly rewarding jobs working with disadvantaged adults and kids.
Even among disadvantaged students, many of these schools are working miracles in fostering a culture of academic achievement - on small budgets.
Furniture workshops and electrical testers will work to put the cast-offs back into the community and given to disadvantaged families.
Our research has shown that good teaching is most significant for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. Times, Sunday Times
The program gives money to primarily low-income schools to beef up staff and resources for individualized instruction to disadvantaged children.
They were coeducational and meritocratic, offering scholarships to those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Times, Sunday Times
They were still massively economically disadvantaged because they had no access to credit. Times, Sunday Times
One of his oldest friends suggested his support for such people derived from his own disadvantaged childhood. Times, Sunday Times
Investment in grassroots facilities, fans, disadvantaged groups and the lower leagues will benefit everyone. The Sun
BBoth men grew up in small Southern towns in relatively deprived circumstances, with an appreciation for the suffering of the disadvantaged.
Nor was there a lift, so disabled students were seriously disadvantaged.
Our whole society is ableist, so it should be no surprise when feminists are too; when your status and rights are threatened, it is also unfortunately common to look for status by differentiating yourself from other disadvantaged groups. What does a (disabled) feminist [poet] look like? « Gender Across Borders
Women are incredibly disadvantaged when they perform traditionally female work - childcare, housework, eldercare - unpaid within families.
The economy is a shambles and money seems to be traded with little thought for disadvantaged members of society. The Sun
Part - time workers, the majority of whom are women, are doubly disadvantaged.
Well intentioned because it seeks to redress a real problem: far too few students from disadvantaged backgrounds are applying to university. Times, Sunday Times
The conscienceless exploitation of the disadvantaged is something that every decent American should be concerned with.
It is a good way to sensitise children to art as well as the disadvantaged child.
I feel no desire to kill this strategically disadvantaged animal, but I have an inspiration.
She then gets friendly with a woman called Mama Sunshine who teaches her commune of disadvantaged kids to rap Christian songs.
The biggest gap in attainment is between pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers. Times, Sunday Times
These days, more and more young people from disadvantaged areas were going to college but this good development was being eroded by the cut-off income levels and the increase in registration fees.
A child who left school with no basic literacy or numeracy skills would be severely disadvantaged.
Treasury does, however, recognise a social dimension to education and recommends government intervention to help the disadvantaged.
I get that there are other people who are disadvantaged from the start, but really, honestly, I came from that same kind of background (single parent, multiple divorces, abuse, etc) and I'll be graduating this spring with a job in art. Loving your day job is a privilege - Feministing
This stop-start approach means that more disadvantaged students will give up.
You can check which postcodes are in areas covered by the ‘disadvantaged’ area rules on the Inland Revenue website - or call into any Inland Revenue enquiry office.
Males need to stop moaning about being disadvantaged by the system, there is nothing stopping us except our own lack of application and effort.
The trust was recently appointed lead charity to administer a 125 million government fund to boost the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. Times, Sunday Times
Gordon was an educational psychologist who had devoted his career to the issues surrounding the teaching of disadvantaged youth.
Even if they are materially disadvantaged they'll still find ways of coping, getting by and making their own entertainment.
A spokesperson yesterday confirmed that those who had been disadvantaged by the regulation from April 1998 would be recompensed over the next four months.
She also helped with International projects like a home in India for disadvantaged wives.
These groups of people were often visibly disadvantaged, lacking things that we in California, and even in Bogotá, could take for granted—like a doctor to treat a bad earache. The English Is Coming!
They have spent years lavishing their love on scores of disadvantaged and special needs children.
Identify and reward champions, evangelists, and successful practitioners of the e-world who assist others, particularly the disadvantaged and the SME sector.
Hence liberal egalitarians favour taxing free exchanges in order to compensate the naturally and socially disadvantaged.
On average, the later remediation is given to a disadvantaged child, the less effective it is. Mental Health, Poverty, Health Insurance, and Human Capital, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
One group was made up of socially disadvantaged teenagers, and the other was drawn from people in their first year at Harvard.
But crime is most prevalent in those urban areas where the multiply disadvantaged dwell.
At least as important as the report's anatomization of social disadvantage was its very acknowledgement that previous Government attempts to solve the problems of disadvantaged neighbourhoods had not worked.
She is one of a team that is opening up the arts to improve the employability of people from disadvantaged groups. Times, Sunday Times
We will also use our presidency to help ensure that poorer countries are not disadvantaged as a result of the Single Market.
He is a director on the boards of organisations that addresses social inclusion issues at local and national levels and has a good understanding of issues faced by the socially disadvantaged.
Investment in grassroots facilities, fans, disadvantaged groups and the lower leagues will benefit everyone. The Sun
The public pension funds once touted these programs as a way to give what they called "disadvantaged groups" access and opportunity. Carmen Ortiz-McGhee: Emerging Manager Programs: Not Just for the Emerging Anymore.
Extra funding would follow pupils from disadvantaged areas. Times, Sunday Times
Unlike him, I think top universities do have a duty to open more routes, but ministers should devise quotas that help the genuinely disadvantaged, the trogs of Hartlepool, not the trendies of Hampstead.
Older people are particularly disadvantaged by this situation because of their greater likelihood of disability.
The old two-tier class system will become three-tier and the most disadvantaged will have been sold down the river.
Affirmative action, for them, was no less invidious than traditional race discrimination against disadvantaged minorities.
I have heard this concern raised particularly in urban areas with high concentrations of minority and disadvantaged young people.
We are changing the way that we support disadvantaged young people in terms of self-employment. Times, Sunday Times
He said the extra help for disadvantaged areas with the greatest needs made the settlement the fairest deal ever for the NHS.
Research shows early school leaving marginalises different groups in society, particularly young unskilled men, lone parents and young people in disadvantaged areas or rural areas.
This stop-start approach means that more disadvantaged students will give up.
It's a shame to throw them away or leave them in the back of a cupboard when they could go towards improving the lives of the many disadvantaged children in the UK.
There was a tendency to acquiesce in low expectations of disadvantaged children and to define their needs in emotional rather than educational terms.
The act of representing peoples under direct colonial rule or as disadvantaged economic partners of the west is therefore also political.
Are claimants ever referred for assessment if they have been severely disadvantaged by injury?
Like many naturally bright but socially disadvantaged young men, Trevor is rebelling.
Many people will be greatly disadvantaged by the new tax system.
All my work is about trying to open up opportunities for disadvantaged young people. Times, Sunday Times
Without it a significant number of pupils will again be disadvantaged in an area central to their life opportunities. Times, Sunday Times
Well intentioned because it seeks to redress a real problem: far too few students from disadvantaged backgrounds are applying to university. Times, Sunday Times
Phil Barlow, a Labour town, district and county councillor for Witham, said: ‘For the most disadvantaged clients, it's disadvantaging them further.’
It will only be an administrative headquarters so how it will bring theatre to the heart of disadvantaged areas, is none too clear.
Frequently the most difficult frontier for many people to cross is the railroad tracks in their own city which separates the economically advantaged from the disadvantaged. P.S.I. ProjectSamaritan International
The defence outlay can be reduced and some funds diverted for the welfare of disadvantaged children.
However, the growing flexibility in our delivery systems should mean that no-one is disadvantaged.
In this version, Professor Henry Higgins teaches Eliza Doolittle how to pronounce /r/ properly', i.e. as the Hebrew alveolar trill [r] (characteristic of Sephardic Jews, who happen to have been socially disadvantaged) rather than as the Israeli unique lax uvular approximant [®′] (characteristic of Ashkenazic Jews, who have usually controlled key positions in society). Languagehat.com: HEBREW OR ISRAELI?
A new educational programme has been set up for economically disadvantaged children.
Across the range of empirical indicators relating to age, occupational status, health status and housing, it is evident that they are a group who are multiply disadvantaged.
Here they are Liberal - an ideology with similar views on civil liberties and personal freedom issues but now supporting a much stronger role for government in regulating and manipulating the private economy and providing public support for the economically and socially disadvantaged, though still stopping well short of full socialism. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
Most of the students were young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, who couldn't afford to go to school because they had to earn money for their families by working on the streets.
Well intentioned because it seeks to redress a real problem: far too few students from disadvantaged backgrounds are applying to university. Times, Sunday Times
For decades the right had successfully demonized women who embraced the label as hirsute succubi, family-scorning and erotically disadvantaged old bags. Big Girls Don’t Cry
The time has come for a radical re-examination of the provision of services for this particularly disadvantaged group of people.
It will be located in a disadvantaged area of Johannesburg and feature a business incubator where black business support services will be promoted.
And while record numbers of disadvantaged students are going to university, a gap still persists depending on a student's background. Times, Sunday Times
The project targets mainly disadvantaged children, youth, and adults in the area.
Just as a scientist reads a seismograph to measure movements in the ground, the character of a government can be judged by the way it treats the most disadvantaged layers of society.
The biggest gap in attainment is between pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers. Times, Sunday Times
Six grants have been given for projects across Greenwich to support nursery schools in disadvantaged areas of the borough.
These social groups remain disadvantaged.
Ten young drivers from local disadvantaged communities also took the waters for powerboat development races in monohulls powered by 15 hp engines.
One of his oldest friends suggested his support for such people derived from his own disadvantaged childhood. Times, Sunday Times
The passaged vaccines are further along in clinical testing (the Mahidol/AP vaccine is in Phase 3 clinical testing, the Reed/GSK in combined Phase 1 & 2), but the chimerics look more promising in terms of efficacy and cost of production, the latter of which is critical for a vaccine who's primary target is going to be in economically disadvantaged nations. Flooding and disease potential
People must not be allowed to trade on price sensitive confidential information, where others are, on the other side of those share trades, are inevitably disadvantaged.
The situation is particularly acute in Dublin and in areas classified as disadvantaged.
According to the Department of Public Enterprises, historically disadvantaged individuals and stokvels will get preference to buy shares in terms of the offer.
They consist of highly mobile young people and families, commuters, and tourists, as well as disadvantaged groups such as refugees.

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