Sentences with phrase «ethnic population of»

In a hundred years, the ethnic population of Italy and much of Europe may have shrunk dramatically due to low birth rates.

«The ruling class cleverly enslaved and impoverished ethnic populations of the North by keeping vital information and knowledge away from them.

Not exact matches

The Tal Afar offensive will target an area which is close to Turkey and home to a sizeable population of ethnic Turkmen, with historic cultural ties to Turkey.

The population of Tal Afar was mix of Sunni and Shi'ite ethnic Turkmen until Shi'ites fled the town after Islamic State's takeover two years ago.

Putin spoke about the «rehabilitation of ethnic Tartars,» a minority Muslim that makes up about 12 % Crimea today after Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's forcible deported of the entire population in 1944.

But a consideration of medical issues brings up the point that the somewhat - rich MREs could easily overwhelm the digestive system of a person suffering from severe malnutrition, and a consideration of the population's unique characteristics leads to the concern that the MREs may be incompatible with ethnic and religious dietary restrictions.

This latter concern is most deeply felt in Kazakhstan, a country with a large Russian border, significant ethnic Russian population, and growing fears of Russian meddling.

According to the latest census, the Asian population in the United States grew by 43.3 % between 2000 and 2010, the largest percentage increase of any ethnic or racial group.

According to the UN, roughly half of the Rohingya population have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh in the past year, most of them since the recent violence which has resulted in the displacement of 30,000 ethnic Rakhine Buddhists as well as Hindus.

Nor do I find one in Pope John Paul II's strong words about the obligation of humanitarian intervention — that such humanitarian intervention may be «necessary where the survival of populations and entire ethnic groups is seriously compromised.»

The situation is complicated by the arrival of other ethnic groups, which have displaced the older Anglo - Saxon population in numbers but not necessarily in influence.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Assyrian Christians are one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Middle East, but in recent years, the rise of ISIS and other militant groups have led to a steady population decrease.

Jews have been elected to Congress and appointed to high positions in government in numbers far exceeding their percentage of the population; Jews are arguably America's most affluent ethnic group; Jews have served as commissioners of Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League, as well as presidents of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia; and, as the wedding notices in the Sunday New York Times indicate, Jews have not been reluctant to marry Gentiles, or vice versa.

To find evidence that the evangelism offices of the denominations are trying to undo that captivity and deal seriously with the cities and the ethnic minority populations that live in them is not easy.

According to the UN, roughly half of the Rohingya population have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh in the past year, most of them in the last three weeks and the violence has resulted in the displacement of 30,000 ethnic Rakhine Buddhists as well as Hindus.

My quarrel with the guardians of the establishment is not that these things are bad, but rather that the establishment leaders use artificial barriers, such as race and religion and ethnic origin, to exclude certain segments of the population from ever having the opportunity to enjoy these fruits of the good life.

Pew tells us that «Whites continue to be more likely than both blacks and Hispanics to identify as religiously unaffiliated,» adding «But the religiously unaffiliated have grown (and Christians have declined) as a share of the population within all three of these racial and ethnic groups.»

Major responsibility for the change in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan, Levine and Harmon claim, rests largely on the political, banking, and real estate establishment of Boston that decided to channel Boston's growing black population into Jewish neighborhoods rather than to scatter them in Irish, Italian, and other ethnic enclaves.

But over time its population increased, its class divisions became more pronounced, its ethnic composition became more diverse, its neighborhoods changed their configurations, and its economic system became more geared to the impersonality of the marketplace.

If we really stop and look at the dramatic changes going on all over the world and in the US (demographics, ethnic population shifts, a new era in how people under 50 look at the world, etc.) it points to a need to focus more than ever on the centrality of Christ Jesus.

Economic expansion in this core was associated with two other dominant trends: growth in population (the so - called demographic transition, which both facilitated, and was facilitated by, industrialization) and the geographic inclusion of previously isolated, local, and ethnic sectors of the population into the commercial and industrial labor force.

Not only do such actions represent a radical departure from past times in America, when government refused to legitimate ethnic - group rights and claims, but they also encourage a polarization rather than unification of our diverse population — a trend that can result only in the eventual creation of de jure ethnic and racial geographic enclaves and political parties, with the appointment and election of individuals mandated along racial, religious and ethnic lines.

Ethnic minorities, especially Hispanics, are a growing segment of the population.

Due to the large immigrant population, some ethnic grocery stores sell 2 - liter bottles of kvass, but it is not the same as the stuff sold at street stands that I remember (that tasted more like something between beer and hard cider, and the bottled stuff tastes like... sweet, bready soda).

Today, the human population of the Congo Basin is approximately 30 million, including more than 150 ethnic groups.

Considering the ethnic mix of the populations of these three islands, it is not surprising that the cuisine is very diverse.

In major U.S. cities with ethnic populations, specialty markets are now starting to stock some packaged varieties of ras el hanout, however the freshness of such items should — whenever possible — be tested.

Jackson should realize that genetic - selection programs of this sort traditionally have been aimed at eliminating or reducing the population of various ethnic and racial groups, including blacks.

targeting specific population groups — each part of the borough has its own particular ethnic mix and this needs to be reflected in services

Our student population proudly reflects a broad spectrum of cultural, ethnic, religious, social, and economic diversity.

But auditors — and Children's Centre staff themselves — felt they needed to do more to identify and provide outreach services to families with high levels of need, and the NAO found that «less progress was being made in improving services for fathers, parents of children with disabilities, and for ethnic minorities in areas with smaller minority populations».

The NAO also found that Centres were making services more relevant to the needs of lone parents, teenage parents and ethnic minority parents in areas with large minority populations.

Limitations: Conclusions from the study are limited in their application to the population of expectant fathers by the low response rate and the low numbers of low - income, ethnic - background, and indigenous fathers in the sample.

The sample was stratified by country and electoral ward type to over-represent families in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and wards with a high proportion of disadvantaged and ethnic minority families.19 Electoral wards were defined as ethnic minority (at least 30 % of population «Black» or «Asian», 1991 census), with the remainder defined as disadvantaged (upper quartile Child Poverty Index20) or advantaged (not in upper quartile Child Poverty Index).

Waldorf schools are actively seeking ways to increase the economic and ethnic diversity of their student populations.

In the US, I think that about 25 % of the population consists of racial minorities and if you include ethnic minorities you get something closer to 50 %.

Differences in the prevalence of supine positioning and other sleep - environment conditions among racial and ethnic populations might contribute to these disparities.17 The prevalence of supine positioning in 2010 among white infants was 75 %, compared with 53 % among black infants (Fig 5).

All facilities, regardless of the racial / ethnic composition of the populations they serve, can support the breastfeeding decisions of their patients by implementing evidence - based policies and practices shown to be critical for establishing breastfeeding, so that more infants are able to reap the numerous health benefits of breastfeeding.

Or, it could be that some causes of sudden infant death are at least partly genetic, and the genes vary in prevalence among ethnic populations, but that's less plausible at the moment, I think.

Islamists stormed the NTC headquarters in Benghazi, over 100 militia brigades from Misrata engaged in retributive killings of Gaddafi supporters, and ethnic tensions between Arab Islamists and minority Berber and Tebou populations led to violent clashes.

The inherent diversity of any large immigrant population makes some degree of integration almost inevitable, as large and diverse groups can't maintain overall ethnic unity outside the mainstream of the host country's society.

Moldova's population is predominantly made of Romanian ethnics, some of whom continue to long for a reunification with Romania, with which Moldova decided to unite itself prior to Second World War.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

The employment gap between ethnic minorities and the rest of the UK population could take 30 years to close, a National Audit Office (NAO) report warns.

For many, this is a triumph of meritocracy over privilege — a sign that the political establishment is becoming more inclusive and representative of the ethnic, religious and socioeconomic diversity of the wider population.

Mike Scala is running for Congress in NY - 6, and he wants the new district lines drawn to be reflective of ethnic populations.

Ethnic minorities will make up a third of the British population by 2050.

The seat El - Yateem seeks — covering Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights and Bath Beach — has long been a stronghold of conservative - leaning white ethnic Catholics, but it is now home also to a large and growing population of Arabs, Asians and Eastern Europeans.

Russia has annexed Crimea, and is making noises about regions of other countries, based on the premise that those regions have a majority population that is ethnic Russian.