| I wanted to find out just how stupid, reckless or hopelessly innumerate they could be. |
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| Even the most innumerate family lawyer will need to know the principles, at least, on which child maintenance is to be assessed. |
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| During the 1980s, he discovered that many of the young workers in his manufacturing firms were functionally illiterate and innumerate. |
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| Like millions of Venezuelans, in the midst of spurting oil wealth she was left illiterate and innumerate. |
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| But this is a form of social injustice, for innumerate and illiterate workers are locked into a low-wage future. |
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| Academics at the University of London warned that if this is not addressed, we could create an innumerate generation. |
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| He used it to sum up the persuasive power of authoritatively made numeric presentations to a largely innumerate public. |
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| So nice, compassionate, slightly innumerate people who genuinely want to help the homeless could conceivably have been taken in. |
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| This is like protesting the menorah because it excludes the innumerate. |
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| Since most of us are innumerate, the arguments may seem dazzling. |
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| The big dirty secret about journalists is that most are innumerate. |
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| We need to stop being an innumerate country, and start to get on board the fact that it is perfectly possible for everybody to understand the basics of statistics. |
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| It would rather let them go out into the world illiterate or innumerate rather than suffer the supposed indignity of being told how to do something properly. |
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| Occasionally it crosses the line of self-satisfaction, as if to lament that the world is full of innumerate mouth-breathers. |
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| Fielding didn't labour for 30 years at the chalk face to render his pupils illiterate and innumerate. |
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| A fifth are functionally innumerate and nearly as many are functionally illiterate. |
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| The government's plans to bring public services to an impoverished population of about 12m, of whom three-quarters are illiterate and innumerate, are stalling. |
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| Generally speaking, the members are likely to be illiterate and innumerate and certainly not used to complex accounting and managerial procedures. |
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| Then again, being charitable, they are probably illiterate as well as innumerate. |
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| However, ReCom research also finds functionally illiterate and innumerate children completing primary education. |
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| Too few South Africans are skilled enough to take the work: many school-leavers are innumerate or otherwise unemployable. Further education reforms and more apprenticeships would help. |
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| Most MPs are innumerate on energy and accept these arguments as proven scientific fact, but they're anything of the sort. |
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| Mr Brown has followed Mr Blair in making education his top priority, but has identified the number of children who leave school innumerate as something that his predecessor has failed to fix. |
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| In the UK, one in four children will leave school functionally innumerate. |
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| What planet does that innumerate Rightwing minority live on? |
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| The schools are only a small intervention envisioned to slow down the exponential growth in the number of illiterate and innumerate poor in India. |
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| A winner of both Tony and Olivier awards, the show has been revived innumerate times over the past 87 years and has continued to wow new generations. |
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| It would give inmates an education and life skills so they can get work once they are released, because many enter prison illiterate and innumerate. |
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