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Unequal in sentence

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The more unequal a society, the more the lifestyles and values of the wealthy diverge from those of “ordinary” people.
It also creates a less prosperous, more unequal, and partitioned world.
Although unequal relationships between the US and weaker powers certainly exist and can be conducive to exploitation, the term "imperial" is not only inaccurate but misleading in the absence of formal political control.
Recent history in Latin America, the most unequal region in the world, provides a good example of what is possible when such policies are put in place.
More than 70% said that as much as their organizations talk about diversity, in reality, opportunities remain unequal.
As a result, Asia is becoming more unequal, corruption is spreading, domestic discontent is rising, and environmental degradation is becoming a serious problem.
France’s unemployed are, to that extent, better off than many low-paid, unskilled workers in the more unequal societies of Britain or America.
All of our work was undone by our successors in their quest to win the class war by making America’s income distribution more unequal.
President Lula's poorest supporters undoubtedly expect him to transform Brazil from the world's most unequal society into a modern social democracy.
Although some Japanese complain about the unequal nature of the alliance’s security components, owing to the limits that Japan has accepted on the use of force, in these new areas, Japan is a stronger partner.
With respect to incentives, politicians have not been given a good enough reason to address unequal distribution patterns.
Beyond Netanyahu’s noxious personal characteristics, Israel has consolidated its position as one of the OECD’s most unequal countries under his rule.
CAMBRIDGE – Reading Thomas Piketty’s influential new book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, one might conclude that the world has not been this unequal since the days of robber barons and kings.
It is widely believed that America’s income distribution is the most unequal among developed economies; but reality is more complicated.
Among developed countries, the US does have the most unequal distribution of disposable income after taxes and transfer payments.
Yet it will not be able to meet those challenges if its development is being hindered by an unequal global trade system.
By some measures, nearly half of all Americans do not pay any income tax already, so cutting taxes skews an already very unequal income distribution.
And it is by far the most regionally unequal EU economy.
Mexico is now among the most unequal emerging economies in the world.
But little attention was paid to poverty’s structural causes, such as inequality of assets and opportunities, or the unequal distributional consequences of growth.
The tension is particularly acute in Saudi Arabia, which has warned the US about the dangers of Iraq’s possible collapse and now finds itself in an unequal face-off with Iran.
Yet, given the enormous global pressures that we face, including vastly unequal incomes and massive environmental damage, we must find new technological solutions to our problems.
But this urban-based, export-led growth model also created more challenges than it can now handle: property bubbles, traffic jams, pollution, unsustainable local government debt, land-related corruption, and social unrest related to unequal access to social welfare.
No doubt, we live today in an extraordinarily unequal world.
And why is today’s world so unequal that it is hard to find any measures of global distribution that do not show divergence at least up until the 1980’s?
So sending Hatoyama as ambassador may elicit harsh criticism, as his grandfather once agreed to a peace process that returned only two islands, and many Japanese fear that his grandson may also be prepared to cut another unequal deal.
In other words, it was low-income households – which represent a large share of the population in the relatively more unequal countries of the periphery – that played the largest role in changing their economies’ external positions.
The other extreme is very unequal access, made more unequal because the wealthy have the time to help their kids with homework and the money to arrange for tuitions, while the poor leave their children watching TV while they work a second job.
The Last ExtinctionBONN – Farmers across Africa are currently engaged in an unequal struggle against a pestilent fruit fly whose natural home is in Asia.
In sharply unequal societies, elite universities receiving government funds can properly be expected to play a role in fostering social mobility.
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