Sentences with phrase «high majority of the population»

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Christians and Jews were peoples of the book whom Muslims would tolerate» indeed Jews, who were a majority of the city's population, thrived in Ottoman Salonica and made it a center of rabbinical learning» but only if they paid a high tax and accepted second - class status.

Why is it that, regardless of culture and time period, the majority of the world's population acknowlege a higher power?

Unsurprisingly, we see a high level of religiously toned political discourse in Latin American countries, where the majority of the population self - identifies as Catholic.

In my work for the Institute for Global Engagement, I come across many official documents — such as a State Department action plan on women and security or a United Nations treaty on ending racial discrimination — that barely mention religion, despite the fact that a vast majority of the world's population (84 percent, according to Pew Research) believes in a higher power.

She said: «I think that there is a lot of high tension in the country, and there has been a culture of extremism that has allowed the majority population, regardless of what is motivating them, to attack and spiral those attacks against religious minorities.

However, with the exception of women who consumed a high intake of soy during adolescence, the majority of epidemiological studies (studies carried out in defined population groups) have not found that women with higher soy intakes are at lower risk of breast cancer.

So, despite persistently high employment in these periods (seen as a «price worth paying» for low inflation), living standards rose for the majority of the populations in the 1930s and 1980s.

Such an effect might also see Labour move back towards the vast majority of BME candidates in high minority population seats — ie less Parmjit Dhanda / Ashok Kumar examples of representing areas with low BME populations — but one difference between Labour and the other parties is that Labour does hold such seats, and so the effect of very strong local preferences in the other parties would be stronger.

(b) By way of derogation from point (a), where the Council does not act on a proposal from the Commission or from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the qualified majority shall be defined as at least 72 % of the members of the Council representing the participating Member States, comprising at least 65 % of the population of these States.

«All patients of all races do better at the trauma centers treating white majority populations, so this research tells us we need to direct attention to hospitals with higher mortality rates to help them improve their outcomes, or we won't ever be able to turn this around.»

The highest HPV vaccine initiation rate was among girls living in communities where the majority of the population was Hispanic (69 percent), and the lowest rates were among girls living in majority non-Hispanic white communities (50 percent) and non-Hispanic black communities (54 percent).

In São Tomé and Príncipe, a tiny two - island island nation off the West African coast, bed net coverage was among the highest in Africa as early as 2007, and the majority of the population was also protected using indoor spraying between 2005 and 2007.

Thus while the majority of the V + population existing in ES cell cultures are indistinguishable from undifferentiated ES cells, we also observe differentiated cells expressing high levels of the Venus transgene (arrows in Figure 2B) that resemble the high - level Venus expressors generated in response to differentiation and that probably represent spontaneous PrEn differentiation.

Figure 2A shows that in the presence of the cytokine LIF, the majority of Venus - positive cells (70 %) were also SSEA - 1 positive (V+S +), while LIF withdrawal both increased the percentage of the population expressing high levels of the Venus transgene (mean level of fluorescence increases approximately 2-fold, Figure 2A) and led to a substantial increase in a second Venus positive population that is SSEA - 1 negative (V+S −).

That is why so many people are «down» on carbs — the majority of the population simply aren't active enough to be able to effectively process a moderate or high carb diet.

They found that the prevalence of EoE in subjects with celiac disease is 10x higher than the general population in the majority of the studies.

Previous research has demonstrated that the oral arginine needed may be as high as 11 grams, which is not sustainable from a patient compliance perspective in order to achieve a pharmocodynamically effective level of 1650 mgs needed by the majority of the patient population to raise the endothelial NO.

The majority of the population is deficient in magnesium and the proactive potential of supplementing magnesium extends far beyond prostate health (think heart health, and magnesium shortage is also a primary root cause of high blood pressure, stroke and GERD).

Darryl While you absolutely correct about Vegetarians having lower risk of Diabetes compared to Nonvegans but there risk is still higher than Vegans.In India where majority of population is Vegetarian the incidence of diabetes is still rising rapidly because of high intake dairy products especially butter and ghee

The majority of red palm oil — the unrefined version higher in micronutrients — comes from sustainable palm farms that don't impact orangutan populations.

The take home message for now being: A high - carb diet that gets the majority of calories from bread, pasta, rice, and similar foods is a big no - no for the majority of the population; especially if you want to live healthy in the long run.

These populations also post higher rates of grade retention and lower rates of high - school graduation than their majority - culture peers.

Furthermore, schools serving students from neighborhoods with the highest crime rates and the fewest social resources predominantly serve African American students; thus, most of the schools in Chicago where students and teachers report the lowest levels of safety serve a majority African American student population.

But even if one school has a student population that is 75 percent black and 25 percent white, and the other has those percentages reversed, there is still no evidence of any form of discrimination if the school with the majority black students has a higher overall discipline rate.

While KIPP serves a majority of black students, Hiawatha's student population — spread out at the elementary and middle school levels, with a new high school set to open in the fall of 2018 — is mostly Hispanic (89 percent of students).

Many institute participants come from «minority majority» districts with high populations of English learners.

This will work for some students, particularly if they have a great deal of support, personal motivation, and aptitude, but does not work for the majority as evident in high disengagement and drop out rates in this population (Sheng, Sheng, & Anderson, 2011; Suárez - Orozco et.

A solid majority of California's future college - age population will come from groups that have been historically under - represented in higher education — including Latinos and African Americans, and those who are low income or the first in their families to go to college.

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.

But the authors also point out that, «despite occurring at very high densities, the summed effects on prey populations appeared unlikely to affect population size for the majority of prey species.»

The countries with the highest quality of life have a majority of their population as working citizens.

Much less challenging, and high profile, is the need, in a world heading toward nine billion people, to figure out how to make everything that's been learned about drought, floods, and other climate - related risks useful to the majority of the human population — people in Niger and Bangladesh who face such risks every day right now, with or without whatever climate destabilization is coming from the ongoing buildup of greenhouse gases.

Keep in mind that the overwhelming majority of greenhouse gases have been, and continue to be, emitted by the massive fossil fuel consumption of a tiny percentage of the Earth's human population, most of them in countries with low rates of population growth — and that the overwhelming majority of human beings on the Earth, particularly those in countries with relatively high rates of population growth, generate only a small amount of greenhouse gases.

Debra Roberts, Working Group II Co-Chair added: «As an IPCC Special Report focused on two Earth systems which together cover the majority of the planet's surface and which affect the majority of the global population, a diverse and skilled author team is critical in ensuring a report of the highest policy relevance.»

State and total populations on land and major cities in which the majority of the population occupies land committed to fall below future high tide lines given emissions through 2100 under RCP 2.6 (blue city markers on both maps) or 8.5 (red city markers) and assuming the baseline Antarctic case (see text).

Well, here's a link that shows (or purports to show) that the vast majority of global warming in the past few decades has taken place in very high Northern latitudes — well North of anyplace with significant population.

This proximity to coastal areas for the majority of the population — combined with unsustainable development trends, environmental deterioration, and high levels of poverty — make the island nation that much more vulnerable to typhoons.

Meanwhile, these four types of damage caused by the problem are getting worse: (1) to the population in that there are many thousands of people whose lives have been damaged for lack of legal services; (2) to the courts in that they are being clogged, as judges have warned, by high percentages of self - represented litigants, because their cases move much more slowly than those that have lawyers; (3) to the legal profession in that it is shrinking and is predicted to have a very negative future of contracting and of law firms failing; and, (4) to legal aid organizations because it is politically very unwise for governments to fund them better with taxpayers» money, to enable them to provide free legal services to more poor people, while the majority of the taxpayers can not obtain legal services for themselves at reasonable cost.

So the average person then concludes quite rightly, that the problem is nobody's problem, meaning that it is an act of God like the weather, and earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, tsunamis, and the uncontrollable economic forces that make legal fees too high for the majority of population and law society control.

For the vast majority of that time period, the commerce and industry of the north (powered to a great extent by hydro power prior to the widespread adoption of coal as a fossil fuel) produced much higher GDP per capita than the agricultural economies of the South, particularly because the infamous «three - fifths compromise» that gave the South Congressional representation based in part upon the number of slaves who lived there (30 % or more of the population of many states) did not apply to capitation taxes.

Interestingly, respondents referred globally to the African - American community as the group of families who were at high - risk, and did not raise the fact that the majority of the African - American population does not live in poverty or in high - risk environments.

In the area of cognitive and academic functioning, NSCAW documented that the majority of foster children scored in the normal range on cognitive and academic measures, although a higher proportion than would be expected in the general population were found to have delayed cognitive development and compromised academic functioning.

normally distributed; descriptively, seniors, however did report the lowest anxiety (m = 77.35; n = 20) with sophomores, the majority of the sample population, reporting the highest (m = 88.30, n = 157).

High levels of Aboriginal employment: The vast majority of the prison population are Indigenous.

Third, the «population paradox» refers to a situation in which a relatively large number of lower risk individuals carry the main burden of risk of disease in the population as a whole, such that while people living in a specific area may be at high risk, the majority of high - risk people are actually spread out across a range of areas.