Sentences with phrase «good portion of the population»

2 min readAs the last days of summer sublimely trickle away, a good portion of the population returns to school.

Not exact matches

Under the best of scenarios, the changes addressed to the needs of only a tiny portion of the potential user population.

Moreover, they argue that federal subsidies are warranted because a significant portion of state and local government spending is for education, health, public welfare, and transportation, all of which have important spillovers that benefit the population in other jurisdictions as well.

I would argue that many people who are pro-choice are not big fans of the mandate, but they accept it as a better situation than having a significant portion of the population with no benefits (and no choice).

Nye — a mechanical engineer and television personality best known for his program, «Bill Nye the Science Guy» — said the United States has great capital in scientific knowledge and «when you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in it, it holds everyone back.»

For good or ill, a greater portion of the U.S. population is religious than at any other time in the countries history, even the period of the «Great Revival» does not come close.

Nye - a mechanical engineer and television personality best known for his program, «Bill Nye the Science Guy» - said the United States has great capital in scientific knowledge and «when you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in it, it holds everyone back.»

One could, of course, make the case that the more evangelical and enthusiastic wing of the new wave is reaching the less - educated portions of the population, within and beyond the church, which the CSI is not serving or not serving well.

If we allow them to try more complex foods that «adults» eat, I believe that there will be a good portion of the under 18 population that actually will enjoy these kinds of foods, as are sometimes served in French schools.

If it was reprehensible to a sizable portion of the population, these franchises wouldn't fare as well as they do.

An expanding ice - free season also means bears» stay on land would overlap the entire caribou calving season and a good portion of a booming geese population's molt and egg - laying season.

«The fact that the models predict the neural responses and the distances of objects in neural population space shows that these models encapsulate our current best understanding as to what is going on in this previously mysterious portion of the brain,» says DiCarlo, who is also a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research.

B12 supplements have the potential of making life better for a large portion of the population, and not just the elderly.

For the portion of the overweight / obese population with insulin resistance and chronically - elevated insulin levels, this is a fairly accurate description of why low - carb diets work so well.

Most of the members are from the US, but there is a good portion of Christian singles dating population that is from Canada, Europe and UK.

With Season 2 about to premiere, now's a good time to catch up with the first season's 10 episodes, which follow the intertwined lives of the residents of a small New York town after a rapture - like event has caused a significant portion of its population to spontaneously, simultaneously disappear.

Whilst the plot concerns events of titanic proportions — Langdon out to stop the spread of a virus that will annihilate a good portion of the Earth's population — the film feels even more contained than Angels & Demons.

A good portion of the world's population plays games on a regular basis.

Clearly, there are deeply rooted social, psychological, and cultural factors that explain why significant portions of the population don't see the apparently obvious connection between education and economic well - being.

Even when limited to low - income populations, though, vouchers tend to serve a socioeconomically advantaged portion of that group, those who are best positioned to leverage choice.

Dogs may be man's best friend, but cats are actually the largest portion of the pet population in America.

Unlike a lot of people, I didn't think it was the best Final Fantasy (that honor belongs to VI, no questions asked), I probably wouldn't be interested in playing through the rumored PS3 remake and I, unlike a huge portion of the gaming population, haven't carried a fanboy torch for Cloud, Aeris, Tifa, Barrett and the rest for going on ten years now.

Although this country provides some of the best care in the world to a portion of its population, adequate coverage doesn't reach everyone.

Along with the Man Booker prize for fiction, the Turner Prize is one of the rare cultural events that a large portion of the British population seems to have an opinion about, and it provides annual fodder for dinner party conversations as well as tabloid ridicule.

``... If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger but not a better or a happier population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it» Read more...

If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger but not a better or a happier population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.

But it's also home to productive commercial fishing operations, as well as local populations who rely on fishing for a significant portion of their sustenance.

That means a good portion of the U.S. population (34 percent) goes through the process of renting out a property from a landlord.

No matter how well you may know the language or how well you integrate into the culture, a large portion of the country's native population may never welcome you.