Even the United States has infrastructure that is hobbled by neglect, with collapsing bridges and a dangerously overburdened electrical grid. Land rich Brazil, too, is a case study in the consequences of under investment.

That neglect is a human tragedy.

Negligence is a type of damage or offense.

This neglect is both unwarranted and dangerous.

Africa is the last frontier for resource discovery, having long been relatively neglected by mining and other resource extraction companies, owing to difficult political conditions.

As humanitarian workers, we cannot accept that so many lives are lost every year on this continent to preventable diseases, neglect and senseless brutality.

The plaintiffs claimed damages for negligent manufacture and design.

Likewise, it is negligent to focus on inefficiently cutting CO2 now because of costs in the distant future that in reality will not be avoided.

With his traditional sense of humor, Lula dismissed the slight.

There is some indication of the cyclical and inter generational nature of neglect.

Far from strengthening social institutions, this lack of attention weakened them.

In short, now is not the time to pursue a policy of benign neglect.

Physical infrastructure had also suffered due to years of neglect and misuse.

It all started from careless and inappropriate lending.

It appeared that the specific vulnerability of Palestinian women was being neglected.

Negligence, prevention of child labour and abandonment of children and internally displaced persons should also be covered.

Sadly, many other crises continue to suffer from neglect.

This neglect is not only shortsighted, but may also prove dangerous.

But there are at least two other divisions in economics that have been neglected meso economics and meta economics.

As a result of this neglect, a noxious social and political residue pervades today s Kosovo.

The cause of these missing, but vital, resources lies in the shameful neglect of agriculture in the past two decades.

In sum, the manner in which this element of the investigation was carried out displays, at least, gross negligence, possibly accompanied by criminal actions for which those responsible should be made accountable.

There are four major categories of child abuse neglect, physical abuse, psychological or emotional abuse, and sexual abuse.

In 2002, the total poverty rate in my country was 46.4 per cent because of decades of neglect.

Unfortunately, other crises less spectacular and lesser in scale suffered from neglect and lack of media attention.

The problem is that, having neglected food security and the productive sectors of their economies for several decades, many developing countries governments now lack the fiscal capacity to increase public spending in order to increase food production and agricultural productivity.

He recalls that his parents and he himself were victims of a violation of their right to equal protection of the law without discrimination, through unequal application of the law and inequality inherent in the law itself, which does not allow him to bring an action for negligence against the authorities.

As a result, it could take a while for recklessness to hit full throttle again.

For much of the world at the time, benign neglect was the order of the day, particularly in the advanced economies.

These institutions, attracted by the high rates of return that were promised, invariably neglected the downside risks.

Any differences should not be the result of inadvertence but of deliberate decision.

Some studies suggest that workplace stress is pervasive in the health care industry because of inadequate staffing levels, long work hours, exposure to infectious diseases and hazardous substances leading to illness or death, and in some countries threat of malpractice litigation.

Decades of neglect coupled with foreign intervention left the country in ruins, with reverberations across the world.

Irrigation systems remain crude and inadequate to confronting the vicissitudes of rainfall on the often parched and barren Korean peninsula. This neglect has left North Koreans perpetually on the edge of survival and often with their palms extended to the international community, especially the South.

But what is common for the field is that the previous negligence of the state in the feminist theory is abandoned.

And the dollar s exalted global status has survived ever since, despite many episodes of neglect and abuse.

Underequipped, the African continent is awash in the obsolescence of its facilities and bore the brunt of poor management of available resources.

It would be grave negligence on the part of the international community if it fails to fulfil its obligations towards Somalia in a timely and decisive manner.

There is often a risk that minorities, owing to their limited number compared to the majority and for other reasons, may be subjected to exclusion, marginalization or neglect.

In this environment, the Fed can well afford to maintain its stance of benign neglect toward the dollar.

For that will only exacerbate the already fragile political and security situation in many of the hardest hit countries.

In fact, cultural rights were under developed and neglected, but they were nevertheless, not ignored by existing instruments of the United Nations.

Article 19 also had to do with errors committed by services through negligence, for which administrative sanctions were particularly well suited.

In Thailand, the rage stems from the perceived neglect of the rural poor by the ruling class, backed by big business, the army, and the king.

Against this backdrop, physical infrastructure in Africa is in need of rehabilitation, upgrading and expansion in order to compensate for many years of neglect and poor maintenance.