Sentences with phrase «greater than the population»

Some have estimated that 3 to 6 tons of sea salt per day had to be transported by canoe and on human backs into the interior to supply the Mayan people whose population then is estimated to have been greater than the population of the same region today.

For example, the researchers estimated that one percent of women have a risk of breast cancer that is more than 3 times greater than the population at large.

For example, a scheme that promises to double your money would require an investment base greater than the population of the entire world after 35 rounds of investing.

It's also about four times greater than the population of Sweden.

This counld mean liberal financing terms for subway construction in every city with greater than a population of 1M in every city of the world.

And in fact, if you were to tally a census of notable Greek thinkers you would find that more came from Africa and the Middle East than from Europe or Anatolia, and there's a simple reason for this: the population of North Africa at the time was greater than the population of Europe.

The law schools have been for years graduating law students at a rate that is five times greater than population growth.

Weirdly, we have evolved a society that rations doctors, nurses and skilled tradespeople, but spews out lawyers far, far greater than population growth.

First, there are far too many lawyers (a situation worsening every Spring) for all of them to make a decent living in private practice anyway (I can hear the howls over that, but it is true, thanks to the law schools graduating students at a rate five times greater than population growth for years now, and never failing anyone they admit to first year.

They have been graduating law students at a rate about five times greater than population growth.

Not exact matches

Last week, Statistics Canada reported a big drop in the issuance of building permits for single - family homes in cities with populations greater than 10,000.

In 2011, most state and federal prisoners were minorities — black and Hispanic prisoners alone accounted for over 60 percent of total prisoners, far greater than their share of the total U.S. population, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

However, we also found that the risk - tolerance of hybrid entrepreneurs was, on average, no greater than the level of risk tolerance found among people who remained employed — i.e., no greater than the general population,» Raffiee reports.

The urban population boom may finally be normalizing, but people are still being attracted to city centers more often than in the years leading up to the Great Recession.

The average income for the top 1 percent is just 13 times greater than the average income earned by the rest of the population.

Individuals with a BMI greater than 35 (medical obesity) accounted for a disproportionate 61 % of the organization's total costs, given that they only represented 37 % of the obese employee population.

The Task Force concluded that, in 1992, the population included in their analysis had a savings rate of 10.1 per cent, which is greater than the 8.9 per cent target rate that would allow two earner families to meet their retirement income target.

Clark's script blamed the housing crisis on a shortage of supply, growing population and demand, consumers with double the borrowing power they had in 2000, and millennials «who are greater in number than even the baby boomers — and who are now entering the housing market for the first time — and they aren't happy.»

Between 1900 and 2000, the increase in world population was three times greater than during the entire previous history of humanity — an increase from 1.5 to 6.1 billion in just 100 years.

Specifically, we found the total cost over five years of these four expenses — closing costs, taxes, insurance and mortgage payments — for the average home in every city in the U.S. with a population greater than 200,000.

Sources: Bankrate, US Census Bureau 2015 American Community Survey, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, government websites, SmartAsset * For this study we looked at all U.S. cities that have a population greater than 200,000 with available data.

The organization's 2015 Military Lifestyle Survey found that female military spouses experience unemployment at nearly three times the rate of their civilian counterparts despite also demonstrating greater educational and professional experience than the general population.

The Greater Toronto Area grew by 5.1 % between 2006 and 2011, setting its population at almost 5.6 million, according to Statistics Canada figures, an increase of more than 477,000 people.

They cover all independent states with a population greater than 500,000.

Included in the study are cities with population sizes greater than 30,000.

Specifically, we found the total cost over five years of these four expenses — closing costs, taxes, insurance and mortgage payments — for the average home in every county in the U.S., and every city with a population greater than 5,000.

As the U.S. nears the point where minorities comprise greater than 50 percent of the population, the need for strong minority - owned businesses in national and global supply chains will be vital to the health of our growing economy.»

We urge the greater community, whether you live in Houston or anywhere else in our country, to join us in helping one of America's great cities and its besieged population emerge from this unfortunate disaster stronger than ever before.

Private groups can often deliver assistance to the needy more quickly, cheaply and humanely than can government bureaucracies, with greater sensitivity to the diverse interests, backgrounds and beliefs of the client population.

Moreover, for all the uncertainties of long - term population forecasting, the likely change in size and composition of a national population can be predicted over the course of the coming calendar year with far greater certainty than can changes in the harvest, the gross national product, the unemployment rate, the foreign exchange rate, or the demand for any particular product.

The UN bureaucrats, Scandinavian politicos, Clinton Administration «global affairs» mavens, radical environmentalists, feminists, and population controllers who planned the conference intended it to be nothing less than the Great Cairo Turkey Shoot: a political slaughter in which the enemies of «individual autonomy,» «sustainable growth,» «global carrying capacity,» «reproductive rights,» «gender equity,» abortion - on - demand, and the sexual revolution would be utterly, decisively routed.

It is rightly stressed that no sustainable society is possible apart from population stability.26 Such stability can not be attained at once, but there is great importance in developing policies which will rapidly slow population growth around the world and bring it to a halt at no more than six billion.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

Meanwhile, no national survey shows the Muslim population of the U.S. to be greater than 1 percent, or around 3 million at most.

Indeed, a half century ago, the proportion of Jews in the U.S. population was quite a bit greater than the combined proportion of Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists today.

In 2001, with a population of 5.3 million, less than that of greater Chicago, the Netherlands gave $ 3.2 billion, almost a third of what we gave.

But Jesus was more accepting of women, children, aliens, beggars, leppers and even sexual minorities than OT practice, which I think represents a greater inclusiveness which should lead us to believe that love / protection /» rights» be extended to these vulnerable groups and not just the priveledge adult male population.

People are getting infected at younger ages and in greater proportions of the population than ever before.

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.

I think God may act to destroy whole populations in order to contain the demonic problem (personal view; The problem of demons is much more greater and serious than we would like to admit, and I say this at the risk of being branded an alarmist).

In spite of the rise of mega-churches, no county in America has a greater church population than it did ten years ago.

How could less than 1 % of the American Muslim population takes the greatest nation on planet Earth hostage so easily?!

Given his concern in a period of great danger to protect both Catholic worship and the Jewish population, Pius in his public acts inclined more to prudence than to prophecy.

Overpopulation in rich countries presents a much greater present threat to the health of the environment than does population growth in poor nations.

The incidence of pedophilia in the RCC, for example, is far less at 0.3 % than that in the greater population of 4 %, yet the media often use hyperbole to indoctrinate their ignorant subscribers, sheeple who often believe it.

I find it interesting that Athiests are less than 2 % of the population but have greater than 90 % of the posts... the devil must have you all working overtime.

Although social surveys indicate that roughly 80 percent of Americans believe in life after death, it is a belief cherished against the grain of perceived official skepticism; and among academically trained religious thinkers, one finds a greater measure of skepticism than in the population at large.

Born of a people who never attained greatness as a nation, buffeted by greater and lesser enemies throughout their whole existence, a nation that at its widest period of expansion would have ruled a region scarcely larger than Pennsylvania, this book has mothered three great religions which between them touch very nearly half the entire population of the world.

In addition, the LEAP study design excluded 9.1 % of the infants who were screened (76 of 834) because large wheals (greater than 4 mm in diameter) developed after the skin - prick test21 that were probably associated with peanut allergy; the safety and effectiveness of early peanut consumption in that population remain unknown.

At the same time, with global population expected to grow to 9 billion people by 2050, the FAO also reports global food production must be 70 percent greater than today's level.