How to Use underinvestment in a Sentence
underinvestment
noun-
At the same time, the real transportation lifeblood of the city—the subways, the buses, the commuter trains—is being sapped by underinvestment.
— William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024 -
For seven years in the mid-2000s, Detroit didn't even have a large grocery chain, in part the result of a long history of white flight from the city and underinvestment.
— Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 16 June 2020 -
At the same time, the health-care system that was already extremely weak from decades of underinvestment has struggled to keep up with the Delta variant.
— Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2021 -
But plans to address the long underinvestment in neighborhoods southwest of downtown have yet to bear fruit.
— The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2021 -
The country faces a shortfall of millions of homes, with underinvestment going back decades.
— Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024 -
The stocks of Germany’s armed forces, already run down by decades of underinvestment, have been further depleted by arms supplies to Kyiv.
— Nbc Universal, NBC News, 18 July 2024 -
These challenges are the result of underinvestment in the civilian workplace.
— Risa Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2021 -
Chronic underinvestment in production now leaves the world at risk of sustained oil and gas shortages.
— Vivek Ramaswamy and David Sokol, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022 -
After decades of underinvestment in roads, bridges, dams and travel of all kinds, citizens can see the consequences.
— William A. Galston, WSJ, 26 July 2022 -
This stems from more than a decade of underinvestment, and a long history of mismanagement.
— Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024 -
Decades of underinvestment across the country have left train and bus systems overburdened.
— Carlos Waters, Vox, 18 Sep. 2018 -
Home to many of the city’s Black and Latino residents, Uptown was already struggling from years of underinvestment when rioters came through the streets last year.
— Mark Berman and Kim Bellware, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Nov. 2021 -
In general, many problems are the result of decades-long underinvestment in the power system.
— Kerry Breen, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022 -
The transport infrastructure of the north has suffered from decades of underinvestment.
— The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019 -
South Phoenix has also faced decades of underinvestment.
— Megan Taros, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2021 -
The reason that the U.S. doesn’t have the same train experience as Europe and Japan is simple: decades of underinvestment in infrastructure.
— WSJ, 19 Aug. 2021 -
At the time, the loss of these supplies and underinvestment in new oil production received little attention.
— Gregory Brew, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2022 -
Exxon, the largest Western oil company, is reaping the rewards of high oil and gas prices spurred by years of underinvestment in production and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
— Christopher M. Matthews, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2022 -
While the Italian league needs an injection of cash after decades of underinvestment, Serie A would be selling a stake at a time when valuations have been knocked down by Covid-19.
— David Hellier, Bloomberg.com, 7 Sep. 2020 -
Thames Water is hurting from years of underinvestment in its infrastructure and debt of more than $17 billion.
— Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 28 June 2023 -
Doubling down on that underinvestment during this critical time is proving to be the final act.
— Paige Francis, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021 -
Murphy called it part of a broad underinvestment in athletics in Boston Public Schools.
— Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022 -
Chronic underinvestment combined with a surge in demand for rail services has put DB under immense pressure to up its game.
— Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 3 July 2024 -
There has long been an underinvestment in primary care.
— Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2023 -
Long-term, this crisis is a reflection of India’s chronic underinvestment in health care.
— Nish Acharya, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021 -
To Schuchat, formerly of the CDC, there’s a lot of ground to regain after years of underinvestment in public health, long before the covid pandemic — and high stakes in ensuring good data systems.
— Sam Whitehead, CNN, 24 Apr. 2023 -
Covid-19 has laid bare the many problems, including the underinvestment in and undervaluing of our public health system.
— Kirsi Goldynia, CNN, 19 Nov. 2021 -
Production hasn’t kept pace due to years of underinvestment in mining and exploration, said Melbye, whose company is reopening mines in Wyoming and Texas that were idled in 2018.
— Jacob Lorinc, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2024 -
Despite the areas of progress, transit in Michigan has been hampered by chronic underinvestment for many years, according to advocates, who point to that as a key reason young people choose to leave the state.
— Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 31 Jan. 2024 -
High emission prices will help remedy the problem of underinvestment in low-carbon technologies, but governments must provide additional support.
— William Nordhaus, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2021
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