Sentences with phrase «growing majority of our population»

A growing majority of our population is living in cities and their surrounding metropolitan areas.

Not exact matches

«Up until recently, the majority of fundraising opportunities in North America were limited to the wealthiest 3 percent of the population — this includes both startup owners looking to grow their business as well as investors interested in pursuing progressive new financial opportunities.»

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

As white racism has created a state of hostility between the dominant Caucasian population and the color minorities, so English monolingualism and Anglo - Saxon cultural chauvinism threaten to impair relations further between the growing Hispanic minority and the Anglo majority.

Add to this the fact that many of the largest and fastest growing megacities, among them São Paulo, Manila, Mexico City Kinshasa and Kampala, already boast large and in a few cases majority Christian populations — and these are swelling too.

The northern Christian population grew rapidly; in fact, Christians today form the majority in half of the 12 northern states, which are now all under Islamic law (although Christians are in theory exempt from Shari`ah provisions).

«The great majority of the rural population who grow maize — rain - fed agriculture — for their own consumption are the poorest of the poor and lack the means to invest in the very expensive and risky migration venture.»

The majority of cell lines growing at the permissive temperature (33 °C) underwent an initial population doubling within 48 h.

As the minority K — 12 student population continues to grow into the majority in the United States, it stands to reason that the student population at colleges and universities will also soon become, says University of Pennsylvania Professor Marybeth Gasman, «majority minority.»

Most students with LD spend the majority of their instructional time in general education classroom and there is a chronic shortage of special educators, so general education teachers must understand how to work with a growing population of diverse students.

Sills: As the only high school in a growing district, Windsor has needed to remain flexible to meet the needs of their majority - minority population.

Migrancy as a social space allows majority populations to question the capabilities of migrants, and is a space in which an increasing number of children are growing up.

Even if we could say that the population has stagnated and new dogs were not born each year due to the grown popularity of these breeds, their use in show, and their use in fighting; majority is an inaccurate word.

Since two billion humans still depend on wood and dung to cook their supper, Smil notes that «much more energy will be needed during the coming generations to extend decent life to the majority of a still growing global population.»

The demographics within the Belt are rather specific: the population is growing extremely fast and the vast majority of the current population is young — in the range between 15 and 25 years old.

But they are not affordable and becoming more unaffordable as that majority of the population that can not afford a lawyer's advice grows.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.