Sentences with phrase «equal population»

While the country also has a roughly equal population of men and women, men make up 91 % of those in prison or jail.

Far better to set districts by computer, minimizing the length of internal boundaries, subject to substantially equal populations in each district.

It's estimated the population of feral cats in the US roughly equals the population of domestic cats, or on the order of 80 million feral cats.

The federal government stipulates that districts must have nearly equal populations and must not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity.

With a more equal population, average people will prosper and so will the majority of businesses.

@owjburnham Note that a broadly equal population balance alone might not be enough to define «default», given that there is (with a lot of justification) a Minister of Women and Equalities in the UK.

I realize the entire populations of WY, SD, MT, ND probably do not equal the population of NYC, but we are a part of the Union.

... [T] he number of known blogs, now somewhere around 25 million, has been doubling every 5 1/2 months... At this rate, in August 2009, the number of known blogs will more or less equal the population of the world.

As the Court further explained, states must employ «honest and good faith» efforts to construct districts as nearly of equal population as practicable.

Those factors included ensuring roughly equal populations in each district, border continuity, and constraining the ratio of perimeter to area.

In a month, meanwhile, the number of retiring baby boomers roughly equals the population of Anaheim, Calif.; and in a year it will be about equal to the population of Connecticut.

When the Parliamentary and Voting Constituencies Bill was passed I celebrated the moment, noting that the introduction of fair - sized seats of equal population could boost the number of Tory MPs at the next election by up to twenty.

The equal population requirement for congressional districts is strict.

Of course, I think that redistricting creates districts of equal population (INCLUDING kids)-- rather than equal population of folks 18 or older (i.e. folks of voting age).

Districts should have roughly equal populations, but otherwise the state is free to redefine these districts as they please.

If world population had stayed stable at roughly 300 million people — a number that demographers believe characterized humanity from the birth of Christ to A.D. 1000 and that equals the population of just the U.S. today — there would not be enough of us to have the effect of relocating the coastlines even if we all drove Hummers.

The region of Central Sulawesi has equal populations of Christians and Muslims.

«The federal constitutional requirement that both houses of a state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis means that, as nearly as practicable, districts be of equal population, though mechanical exactness is not required,» the Chief Justice wrote.