The material deprivation many women and their families experienced was only one aspect of their poverty.
The problem is that the official definition of poverty no longer provides an accurate picture of material deprivation.
His teachers, however, were relatively unconcerned by the material deprivation, which, after all, is commonplace in the city's schools.
Your intervention clearly implicates myself in the charge you make of 'defeatist talk' about the scientific connection between material deprivation and premature death.
The all important relationship between material deprivation and ill health was not discussed in your speech.
As such these poverty statistics measure inequality rather than material deprivation or hardship.
Adoption of health-threatening behaviours is also influenced by material deprivation and stress.
Poverty, certainly, is often a matter of material deprivation.
Faced with changes like these, the farm worker experiences not only a sense of alienation from the village, but often a real material deprivation.
The sense of relative material deprivation and restrictions on foreign travel are the issues that seem to matter most.