Sentences with phrase «if entire populations»

If entire populations are forced to relocate by rising seas as a result of climate change, do they remain citizens of a vanished country?

What if the entire population found you to be «innately and viscerally disgusting?».

President Bush acts as if the entire population of Iraq consists of one single person.

I came to the conclusion that if one person believed in Christ that person would be consider insane, if an entire population believes its consider a religion.

Other Urban Legends include: Humphrey Bogart was the original Gerber baby on their baby food ads, the FBI monitors public libraries and notes who reads «subversive» books, and my favorite: If the entire population of China jumped up at the same time, the US would be swamped by a tidal wave.

When people find out I spent three months in Thailand, usually one of the first assumptions is that I spent my nights dancing and downing booze as if the entire population of backpackers there are at a never - ending full moon party.

Imagine, for a moment, if the entire population of New Orleans brought suit against Peabody, Arch Coal, and ExxonMobil as a class action for their part emitting CO2 that «created» Hurricane Katrina, or all the families who lost family members in Katrina charged the companies with wrongful death lawsuits.

Not exact matches

Adding to this new information is some research conducted by Womenable way back in 2007, Mapping the Missing Middle: Determining the Desire and Dimensions of Second - Stage Women Business Owners, which not only raised the point that not enough policy and programmatic attention was being paid to established women - owned firms that had not yet cracked the million - dollar revenue barrier, but sized this population at between 16 % (if defined to include firms with employees or between $ 100,000 and $ 1 million in revenues) and fully 91 % (if having employees and revenues over $ 100,000 was not a criterion) of the entire women - owned business population.

The whole of the law is do unto others as you would have them do unto you, if the midianites (for instance) can wipe out an entire population of their own enemies in warfare, than it is only just that the same can be done to them.

Assuming we're all taking about the same sin (Adam and Eve), in their own stories the entire population was wiped off the face of the Earth once (except for Noah's family, who apparently «God» had forgiven for the sin or he wouldn't have saved him); and then absolved of all Old Testament sins by «God» letting his own son (or himself if you think that way) get tortured and killed.

In a commencement speech, Admiral William McRaven provoked graduates from the University of Texas with this exhortation: «If every one of you changed the lives of just 10 people, and each one of those folks changed the lives of another 10 people — just 10 — then in six generations this class will have changed the lives of the entire population of the world, eight billion people.»

If the Pod Mrcaru and Pod Kopiste populations were in fact, completely genetically identically (i.e. throughout their entire genomes), then there would not be the significant changes in morphology.

If only one vampire where to exist on earth it wouldn't be long before the entire human population was decimated.

It would be one thing if he were calling for the entire damn state or something to bow down to Islam, but if NYC has 12 % of its population following Islam and if he's only speaking to NYC schools, I think he absolutely has a point.

Do you deny that IF the Catholic church COULD dictate their beliefs to the entire population, they would?

Basically, if you have a birthday in September and give up any gifts and instead send donations to the September campaign, you'll be helping the entire population of the Bayaka people group of Central African Republic get access to clean water.

If scholars want to talk this way among themselves, he says, that is their prerogative, but we must fight their efforts to impose these theories on entire populations.

11 % is close to an absolute extreme, but what if 30 % of the population supported an amendment, and at least some of those people were willing to move or declare residency in other areas, and the entire effort was coordinated through the Internet.

Since it's pretty much completely up to the state legislature, why can't it choose to hold an election by the entire population (including non-citizens, or even minors if they really wanted to)?

In the independence referendum the SNP appeal to Labour voters was based on a highly positive, if rather romantic, view of Scotland's future and the entire population was highly engaged in the debate.

If Meghess and Shelia Kaplan are not surrogating for Cuomo, I would think that they would let his people know in a public statement that a statement that Paladino fathered an entire city population illegimately is WAY BEYOND THE PALE!

If you count the number of people with Makarfi and the so - called leaders, they are not more than the entire population of the unknown and ordinary party members nationwide.

Certainly, if Jammeh is given the chance to rule The Gambia again, the entire sub-region will propagate a burgeoning population of separatists, rebels, and illegal arms - dealers.

«If you only consider local birds in an environmental assessment, you're not really evaluating the effect that facility may have on the entire population,» Katzner said.

«If I as a university professor approached my institutional review board and said I want to experiment on entire populations by introducing wavelengths of light most associated with harmful biological and ecological effects, they would laugh me out the door, down the street and out of my office,» Longcore says.

If the entire morbidly obese population of the U.S. lived in one state, it would be the 12th highest - populated state, with more people than Virginia.

But if they should become available, immunizing entire populations is often difficult.

If the gene were that prevalent in the field, says entomologist Fred Gould of North Carolina State University, an entire pest population could become resistant in a year or two — an outcome that could hurt organic farmers, who rely on Bt sprays.

If those numbers make your head spin, try this comparison: Each day the entire global population places roughly 50 billion cell phone calls and sends 17 billion text messages and 300 billion emails.

If confirmed, the study means that plans to replace entire mosquito populations with disease - resistant ones may have better chances of success.

If this sample of galaxies is representative of the entire population at this early time, then the majority of new stars formed in these small galaxies.

Obviously it becomes difficult to eat the fish if they don't exist, but fewer populations of certain species can have repercussions for an entire ecosystem.

Some scientists (that aren't influenced by big business) believe that GM corn, soy, and other GM crops could cause major long term health issues for our entire population, even if acute health issues are not observed.

I think many of us understand that the expectation of «100 % vegan» amongst the entire population is not attainable; however, we would be better off as a whole if we dramatically cut down our animal product intake to make us some greater percentage vegan than where we are now.

If an infection wipes out an entire population, we'd like to know how it accomplished that in more detail.

However, even if there is some impact on responses, the value of more complete and accurate data derived from surveying the entire population outweighs such concerns.

This portability makes them possibly the most suitable storage option for schools who can't afford to purchase tablets for the entire pupil population, especially if schools choose a version with a basket design.

Even if we expanded beyond this subgroup of high income students to the entire high income population at these schools, I believe the conclusion still holds true that low income students have suffered higher tuition hikes than high income students.

If I am stupid enough to limit myself to one or two formats simply because those are what I personally choose to read, I am missing out on an entire segment of the reading population, and that's just shooting myself in the foot.

If the entire policy limit was available for stolen cash, you can imagine there is a subset of the population who would claim that someone lifted $ 10,000 in cash off them, trying to get a quick payday.

Imagine if resistance could have existed at all against the Gestapo or KGB during Stalin with facebook profiles available on the entire population.

It could be hypothesized that if the presence of long and dense eyelashes is rewarded in the show ring, and if this is related to an increased risk of distichiasis, this could unfortunately lead to a higher prevalence among show dogs compared to the entire population.

We know that if we look at statistics, less than two - thirds of pets leave veterinary hospitals in areas where heartworm is endemic, common, without sufficient heartworm protection to protect either the entire pet population in the house or pets for the entire transmission season.

So if you've ever wanted to have your own wolf pack, fly like an eagle, ride a bear or even just have the entire rabbit population bow their fuzzy ears to you, this is the game.

This galaxy is, for reference, astonishingly vast, estimated to contain over 18 quintillion planets (that's 18,000,000,000,000,000,000), which is not just vastly more than any player could explore, but more than the entire human population of seven or so billion could even make a single landing on, if we all worked together.

To put that in perspective, that's as if you spread the population of only Bangladesh across the entire world.

At this rate, the entire Canadian bat population may be infected within 12 to 18 years, if conservation efforts don't intervene.

But if one begins by accepting «the common good» as an axiom and regarding individual good as its possible but not necessary consequence (not necessary in any particular case), one ends up with such a gruesome absurdity as Soviet Russia, a country professedly dedicated to «the common good,» where, with the exception of a minuscule clique of rulers, the entire population has existed in subhuman misery for over two generations.

Only if we keep our nerve will voluntary population restraint and voluntary per capita consumption rates be achievable without war, poverty and famine extending indefinitely into the future with fatal consequences for humanity, the planet and the entire environment.

Perhaps we are helping global warming and if the entire world or at least more than 2/3 of the population cut back we could delay the problem for another generation possibly more.