Sentences with phrase «equals the population of»

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.

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.

Would we have an equal population of «skeptics» if the science did not lead to the requirement for legislation?

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.

Not exact matches

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

On March 15, one of the contenders to become China's president for the next decade, Bo Xilai, was sacked as the Communist Party boss for Chongqing, an inland megalopolis with a population roughly equal to Canada's.

Statistics Canada predicts that the proportion of seniors could, by 2031, equal the level now seen in Japan, which has the oldest population in the G7 with one - quarter of people over age 65.

White says, «When you consider that women make up over 50 % of the population, this number still has lots of room to improve if we want to consider all things equal».

Redistricting follows the once - a-decade census, when population shifts require the adjustment of political districts to keep them close to equal in numbers.

So, that today, the top 1/10 of 1 % of the population has a net worth that is equal to the bottom 90 % combined, okay?

Instead of spending tax dollars on programs such as welfare, food stamps, Medicare and Social Security for some of the population, give an equal amount to everyone and be done with it.

Although enforcement of the Equal Pay Act and other civil rights laws has helped to narrow the gender pay gap, these actions only cover segments of the American working population, and many important protections are not yet codified in law.

Of course, we can't accept that 1/2 the population is our equal, because women are less than goats.

That is not comparable with providing equal civil rights to a segment of the population.

Just some real data from wikipedia: «The likelihood of a woman having an abortion is called the abortion index, with the value of 1.0 as signed to a probability equal to a population's average.

«All the groups that make up the new American population, as opposed to the population of 50 years ago, are now participating on equal» terms, in politics and American society in general, he said.

It is, I think, necessary to question what it takes for one to stand truly equal among one's fellows; to explore the limits of a rights - oriented approach to the problem of inequality between racially distinct populations in our contemporary national life; to deal with issues of dignity, shame, personal responsibility, character and values, deservingness.

As the worlds population explodes an equal % of nuts appear nothing unusual here.

So indoctrination of nearly the entire population, most since before they could even walk or talk, and the perpetuation of a myth for 2,000 years equals not being able to fathom a world without Jesus.

I have come to the realization that you can not call yourself a follower of Christ, or Christian, and actively discriminate against a whole segment of the population that is hurting no one and just looking for equal treatment under the law.

atomD21 I have come to the realization that you can not call yourself a follower of Christ, or Christian, and actively discriminate against a whole segment of the population that is hurting no one and just looking for equal treatment under the law.

I hope that his message of tolerance includes equal rights for the ten percent of Egypt's population who are Coptic Christians.

But it does seem clear to me that we need to begin with a vision of a world community (1) consisting of a population within the biological carrying capacity of the planet (2) organized politically and economically in ways that provide to all human beings equal access to the means of material fulfillment and (3) organized technologically in ways that (4) neither exhaust essential natural resources of earth nor (5) upset the delicate balances of nature which make the environment capable of supporting life.

I still don't understand how a population of people (African Americans) who fought so hard to obtain the same rights as everyone else can be so against other people who have the same blood flow as they do, are deserving of the same rights they obtained, and who should be recognized as equals as well.

Just recognize that the atheist population is a growing percentage of those out there... and though there are the extremes of them, there are an equal amount of total Jeebus freaks too.

Given that 50 % of the population profess some kind of adherence to Christianity and only 4.5 % to Islam and 1.3 % to Hinduism, it would be absurd and wrong for the BBC to operate on the basis of «equal time to all the religions».

The Portuguese colonial empire was distributed over a much larger part of the globe but in square miles and population did not equal the Spanish possessions.

The two groups are also about equal in numbers, each constituting about 40 percent of the adult population (judging from the ways in which people categorize themselves).

Well, here we go: Whites in the US's equal 78 % of the population http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html

CUs are geographically defined units, mostly equal to a village and usually have a population size of approximately 5000 people.

Combined with the number of Arab Israelis, this puts the Arab population west of the Jordan River approximately equal to the Jewish population.

In Europe, you can't find a core country where 51 % of the population is comfortable with the idea that Turks might have equal status.

The decision said that the populations must be roughly equal not that there was any restriction on the shapes of the districts so long as they are contiguous.

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

This is despite Spain representing less than 10 % of the Union's population and an equal portion of its total territory.

A key requirement of democracy is equal protection of all stakeholders - i.e., if at some point there is a completely fair vote of 2/3 population preferring the choices advocated and implemented by party A; and 1/3 preferring the choices of party B - then a system must ensure that the minority gets adequate protections and fair treatment; so that while at this moment country gets steered to choice A, the minority doesn't get punished in any way for saying that in their opinion choice B might be best; and if some of the original voters change their mind, the choice B can still be known even if the governing clique that was elected on the idea of A wants to continue with A forever.

subject to subsection (7), the Maori electoral districts shall each contain an equal number of members of the Maori electoral population.

Israel would retain most of its settlement population in the settlement blocs, but transfer an equal amount of land from inside Israel's side of the green line in exchange for the land upon which the settlements were established.

In 1967, following the United States Supreme Court ruling requiring that all legislative districts be approximately equal in population, the voters of Erie County, in a special referendum, authorized the establishment of a 20 member County Legislature to replace the Board of Supervisors.

Following the method of equal proportions referred by @AlonzoMuncy in another answer (which falls under the category of the more you know), it is possible to calculate the population bounds required to a majority of the Electoral College.

Ghana has about 85.7 percent of its population without decent toilets, and this equals about 23 million people, according to the report.

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.

In 1964, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Wesberry v. Sanders that the populations of House districts must be equal «as nearly as practicable.»

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

The population of California is more than 66 times the population of Wyoming, but California and Wyoming still have equal representation in the Senate.

Nevermind that the total population, and therefore potential market, of Canada, New Zealand and Australia combined is only roughly equal to that of the UK.

«While we did not specifically investigate the use of force against the adult inmate population, our investigation suggests that the systemic deficiencies identified in this report may exist in equal measure at the other jails on Rikers,» prosecutors wrote in the report.

Poloncarz added, «As I've said many times, our county is actually like a small state with urban, suburban and rural areas and a population that is equal to that of five states.

If the power over lines is taken out of their hands, and the districts are required to have roughly equal numbers of residents in them — at the moment the populations of each district are permitted to depart from the mean by up to five percent in either direction — the swing back toward Democratic control will be that much more dramatic.

We want New York State to be divided into districts that are compact and contiguous, of equal size in population.