Sentences with phrase «great portion of the population»

While the program has undergone many changes over the year, including raising loan limits, the FHA has been successful in making homeownership a reality for a greater portion of the population.

The Variety Club (UK)[10], sponsors a great deal of activities for children, and it is largely due to the generosity of these organisations that the children of less fortunate families — and this still applies to a great portion of the population in the UK — will find support and assistance for the very tough challenge they need to face.

Not exact matches

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 of the regions thus directed represents the largest portion of the province s population and the greatest single program investment in terms of manpower and money.

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.»

At the outset of the century its population was descended chiefly from immigrants from Great Britain and North Ireland, with substantial minorities from the Protestant portions of Germany and the Netherlands and slight contingents of Huguenots and Swedes.

By no coincidence, this state also has the greatest portion of African - American residents, close to 40 percent of the total population.

The great, punk rock gag of Snowden is that Stone somehow managed to make a straightforward Hollywood hagiography about a fugitive hiding out in Russia who a sizeable (though shrinking) portion of the population considers a traitor.

But for the state with the largest portion of its population under 18 years old, one metric should be of great concern: the disappearing single - income household.

Range The Townsend's big - eared bat occurs throughout the west and is distributed from the southern portion of British Columbia south along the Pacific coast to central Mexico and east into the Great Plains, with isolated populations occurring in the central and eastern United States.

Women age 18 or older represent a significantly greater portion of the game - playing population (36 %) than boys age 18 or younger (17 %).

Women 18 years or older represent a significantly greater portion of the game - playing population than boys 18 years old or younger;

Adult women represent a greater portion of the video game - playing population (33 percent) than boys under age 18 (17 percent).

``... 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...

The planet may be able to absorb such insults, but not without great harm to a portion of it's population.

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.

«Offering limited - scope retainers to support clients through mediation has the potential to contribute a great deal to access to family justice, by serving a portion of the population who might otherwise go without legal counsel,» she writes.

Whether our practices are located in an area where potential clients can easily afford to pay our preferred rate consistently and also see the value in the services we provide, or it's not as important for some of us to maintain a full practice to ensure our economic stability, the question of including the portion of the population that only has access to mental health treatment if they are able to use healthcare insurance benefits to cover a greater portion of the cost is perhaps an ethical one that we grapple with.