Examples of needy

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Charitable visits, by contrast, take place in the homes of the needy.
Needs are morally interesting if and only if meeting them would prevent the needy from falling below this level.
The story is about alternative ways of distributing a valuable resource between three needy individuals.
There are people on one side with no matches on the other, each as needy and capable of benefit as the original 900.
Groups that secured legislative change were all in economic need, although being in dire straits was not a sufficient condition, as many needy groups were not accorded similar legal protection.
Such relief could not, it is argued, have discriminated between the genuine needy and the sturdy beggars who had mastered the timing of the anniversary calendars.
If someone helps the needy unthinkingly, or for vainglory, instead of out of obedience to right reason, then a necessary condition for the virtuous action is missing.
Prisoners are a vulnerable and needy population in terms of health; however some aspects of health need are poorly researched in this population, particularly general health.
The resilience of this cultural norm of moral interdependence became apparent when our respondents tried to justify their decision not to help a particular needy (grand)child or kinsperson.
In short, honest signaling of need can evolve when parents cannot reliably detect need directly, producing the signal is costly, and the parental resource is most valuable to the needy.
Thus, most historians maintain, the elderly in the multigenerational family was usually the dependent generation, and the younger generation took in their needy elders because of altruism.
Even so, the resulting price changes may not be unbearable for most people, and their governments could afford to subsidize food for the needy and farm incomes where needed.
In order to maintain low overhead costs and to ensure that only the needy received benefits, friendlies promoted the concepts of individual success, hard work, thrifty living, and integrity.
The needy and the sick themselves also had recourse to the familiar repertoire, as emerges from the description of a deathbed scene in an early eighteenth-century anthology.
The matron was also supposed to deliver food and firewood to the needy in the community, and also to run the letting of a mangle to people in the neighbourhood.
Where elders lack physical mobility and literacy skills, it is essential to take a pro-active approach whereby welfare officers go out into communities to identify needy cases.
During the crisis of the 1990s the cutbacks in economic support to voluntary social welfare organisations was seen as a betrayal of the needy by the welfare state.
Although it is painful to deny transplantation to needy patients and to triage them out of the possibility of having an organ transplant, the policy is considered to be just.
In the provision of welfare two trends are discerned: the growing involvement of the city government, and the tendency for help for the needy to become increasingly secular.
The traditional meaning of hospice is hospitality; giving a welcome not just to the sick and dying but to the hungry wayfarer, the needy poor, the orphan.
Other people are more needy.
What is noticeable above all is that the numbers of the needy remained a fairly small proportion of the population in many places, even during hard times.
In the "global village," one need not venture outside of one's immediate environment in order to encounter needy people who come from distant countries and cultures.
To make the dilemma worse, being old is stereotyped as being frail and needy, and therefore a burden on social and health-care services and other age groups.
Among all categories of needy older people, many more receive informal care than public home help, with the exception of the unmarried and childless.
Thus, needy women who were divorced through no fault of their own do not gain access to the compensation they are entitled to without making a claim.
Conservatives, by contrast, argued that elimination would fundamentally sever the link between government support and food purchases by needy households, transforming the program more into a general income maintenance arrangement.
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