inequality - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • wealth: In such conditions, no public action could succeed in reducing inequality of wealth, for, no public action could be possible.

Converse of object

  • exacerbate: Can vouchers be fair, or do they exacerbate existing inequalities?
  • widen: This could have the effect of widening health inequalities.
  • tackle: The government has begun to tackle asset inequality with a radical new type of welfare.
  • redress: In this way, the Trust can help redress inequality.
  • perpetuate: His conclusions, rather than finding support for integration, portrayed it as supporting the existing ethnic division and perpetuating social inequality.

Adjective modifier

  • socio-economic: In the context of Sudan the policies pursued by the ruling northern elite resulted in apparent regional socio-economic inequality with southern Sudan suffering most.
  • racial: What new forms of racial inequalities have developed over the past 40 years?
  • gross: The duty of scientists is to say: ' We have gross inequalities in health in this country.
  • socioeconomic: These services are therefore appropriately targeted to reduce socioeconomic inequalities.
  • stark: But England's schools are still some way from being world-class, and stark inequalities persist.

Noun used with modifier

  • income: In countries with greater income inequality, health inequality is greater too.
  • wage: And wage inequality increases in the economy without benefits, whereas it remains practically unchanged in the one with benefits.
  • widening: Assets play a crucial role in generating Britain's widening inequality.
  • wealth: Let's have some policies to reduce wealth inequality.

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