Sentences with phrase «increasing portion of the population»

In Korea, an increasing portion of the population finds the dog meat trade to be shameful.

It is a sign that an ever - increasing portion of the population has some difficulty with the notion that the government is the people and the people are the government.

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Moreover, single adults are a growing part of the American population, so demand for individually portioned products is increasing as more people dine by themselves.

That there is a market for these items suggests not only increased discretionary income for at least a portion of the population, but an intense desire to establish and preserve new forms of friendship.

This enormous increase in the older portion of the population alone will drive more interest in research on aging and also require more services for those people.

With Republicans reluctant to raise tax rates on any portion of the population, and Democrats insisting on revenue increases to address the deficit, the mortgage interest deduction has found itself center stage during the fiscal cliff negotiations.

I have read that the 80 - year - old - plus portion of the population is increasing faster than any other segment.

When a portion of the sustainable population is removed (e.g., by trapping and killing them) and the availability of resources is unaltered, the remaining animals respond through increased birthing and higher survivability rates.

``... 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.

These risks are three-fold: the increased number of events like floods and cyclones; droughts in some parts of the country and in long - term effects of coastal erosion affecting a large portion of the population.

And because new household formation is the critical first step toward home ownership, the population gains point to robust demand in the years ahead, especially since a significant portion of the increase is fueled by immigrants, who arrive at the rate of one every 30 seconds, the Census Bureau says.