Sentences with phrase «large proportions of the population»

«Those who had led the rebellion had under - estimated the deeply buried desire of far too large a proportion of the population who simply preferred to be told what to do,» she remembers.

In markets where homeownership has become increasingly unaffordable and unattainable for large proportions of the population, there is a clear market failure to address.

Today a far larger proportion of our population in the United States are members of Christian churches than ever before in our history.

It survived the shock and in 1911 enrolled a slightly larger proportion of the population than at the time of separation from the State.

I can understand how this kind of story sells papers by the million and I understand that this is how the The Sun and The News of the World and the Daily Mirror operate, hell I even understand that to a very large extent they do so because that is what a large proportion of the population wants to read, sick as it might sound there are people who really get off on this stuff.

Parenting programs have been successful at teaching positive parenting techniques and improving behaviour of children.5 Given that a large proportion of the population needs to be taught, education will need to reach beyond just families with overt problems.

In the UK the phrase «middle class» refers to a large proportion of the population who, broadly speaking, earn more money than they need to pay rent and bills, clothe themselves, eat food etc..

When a large proportion of the population is protected — known as herd immunity — the risk of future epidemics may be low.»

«More attention should be paid to the safety of ART offspring as they now account for the large proportion of the population,» says He - Feng Huang, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Affiliated Women's Hospital and Zhejiang University School of Medicine in China.

In many other countries, however, the CVD burden dwarfs that of cancer, and a large proportion of the populations will lose their lives prematurely to heart disease and stroke.»

«Our findings show that the risk of invasive breast cancer is increased in postmenopausal women with normal BMI and higher levels of body fat, meaning that a large proportion of the population has an unrecognized risk of developing cancer.»

These countries have both large proportions of their populations living in absolute poverty and good survey data to ground truth any predictions made by the computer.

For a large proportion of the population, however, the effect of higher - carbohydrate diets, particularly those enriched in refined carbohydrates, coupled with the rising incidence of overweight and obesity, creates a metabolic state that can favor a worsening of the atherogenic dyslipidemia that is characterized by elevated triglycerides, reduced HDL cholesterol, and increased concentrations of small, dense LDL particles (6, 7).

As with the national data, we should be mindful that demographic changes can affect achievement trends, especially as Hispanic students make up an ever - larger proportion of our population.

These resources have been obtained with the help of slaves who eventually made up the largest proportion of the population.

In those countries, large proportions of the population are children or teenagers, who could contribute either to a large workforce and economic gains or — in the absence of education and jobs — to instability and conflict.

Because of the obesity crisis, a large proportion of the population has trouble getting themselves on and off a standard 14» high toilet.

«This is a serious concern because a large proportion of the population lives in arid regions to the west of the Andes,» said Antoine Rabatel, the lead author of the study and a scientist with the Laboratory for Glaciology and Environmental Geophysics in Grenoble, France, in an interview with the Guardian.

The mineral wealth of the region in particular attracted immigrants from Chile, and Chileans seeking temporary work rather than a fixed domicile now constitute the largest proportion of the population.

While Sony claims the product is optimized for Xperia devices, it is compatible with all Androids running Jelly Bean 4.3 and above, which comprises a fairly large proportion of the population these days.

Because relationship dissolution affects a large proportion of the population, this remains an important public health issue.

Reducing the prevalence of adolescent behaviour problems will require that a large proportion of the population be reached with effective parenting strategies.8, 11 A population approach to parenting programmes for parents of adolescents seeks to optimize impact and reach a larger proportion of the general population.

Not exact matches

There is a limit to how many hours there are in a day that employees can work, how low the unemployment rate can go on a sustained basis, how high the labour force participation rate can rise, and how large the proportion of working - age people within the total population can be.

In particular, medical and insurance expenses make up a larger proportion of the spending of senior citizens than for the general population.

At the end of the century, the same proportion of the much larger global population remained below the poverty line.

This is evidenced by the lighter complexions of the present - day Indian in the northern parts of India where the Aryans mingled in largest proportion with the indigenous population, in contrast to the much darker complexion of southern Indians where the Aryan influence is least.

Contrary to that image, White Evangelical Protestants are mostly in the demographic mainstream, with only somewhat less formal education and a slightly larger proportion of poor people than the population as a whole.

In this paper I suggest that television needs to be considered seriously as an operative religious activity for a large proportion of the Australian population.

There is still much segregation and discrimination, and even if poverty - stricken blacks are only one - third at most of all the poor in America, poor people are a much larger proportion of the black population than of the white.

Bales reminds us that while today's 27 million may be the largest number of slaves ever held at one time, historically it is the smallest proportion of slaves relative to the world's total population, which suggests that slavery as an institution is declining.

Perhaps the real advantage of the relatively large proportion of elderly, singles and young couples is the consequent reduction in the project's population density.

Given the significance of this response to illness for a large proportion of the world's population, there has been considerable interest in recent years in measuring the efficacy of intercessory prayer for the alleviation of ill health in a scientifically rigorous fashion.

Financially, since there is such a large population of evangelical Christians in our society, even modest contributions from a small proportion of them can sustain fairly extensive broadcasting.

«Since a large proportion of vitamin A — deficient children and their mothers reside in rice - consuming populations, particularly in Asia, Golden Rice should substantially reduce the prevalence and severity of vitamin A deficiency, and prevent at least hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths and cases of blindness every year,» said Dr. Alfred Sommer, professor and dean emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Even with strong expansion of the country's middle class, a large proportion of India's population remains poor, and being able to afford products is still a major concern for many in the rural economy.

The largest thread to the German pension system is the growing proportion of retired people in the population.

Today a survey amongst 2,000 UK consumers carried out on behalf of the Building Societies Association shows that if the barriers were lowered a remarkably large proportion of the UK population would consider building their own home either directly or using the services of architects and contractors.

While around half of the predicted rise in the overall population is linked to migration, a larger proportion of migrants is expected to get a job than Britons.

There is no way, for example, to allocate a whole number of seats in exact proportion to a larger population.

Given that a small proportion of the population is homosexual, prospective studies require a large number of children.

According to the nationally representative study, patients who will gain Medicaid under expansion programs supported by the ACA will be younger (average age of 36 versus 38), with a larger proportion being male (49 percent versus 33 percent) and white (60 percent versus 50 percent) compared to the current Medicaid population.

A study of 222,000 technology, science, and medicine graduates showed that between 1990 and 2000 they started 49,000 new companies — a proportion no higher than among the adult population at large.

In a society where the proportion of the old population is getting larger and larger, it's not going to be economically possible for all these people to be looked after.

While criticisms mount, however, a large proportion of the world's population continues to live in the suburban fringes of growing cities.

If a larger proportion of the graduate student population were supported on training grants, she said, NIH could better monitor students» training and ensure broader exposure to careers outside of academia — and better training in the skills needed to perform well in those careers.

The key insight is that the total size of population that can be supported depends on the proportion of cooperators: more cooperation means more food for all and a larger population.

As of 2005, roughly three percent of the world's population lived outside their country of birth — the largest proportion ever recorded by the United Nations.

Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, it killed 90 % of the cattle and large proportions of domestic oxen used to pull plows, and decimated wild buffalo, giraffe, and wildebeest populations.

«We found that while hybridisation has not compromised the genetic distinctiveness of wolf populations, a large number of wild wolves in Eurasia carry a small proportion of gene variants derived from dogs, leading to the ambiguity of how we define genetically «pure wolves».

It is worth noting that the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists has recommended a smaller range of.3 to 3.0 mlU / L, which would make a much larger proportion of the U.S. population fall within the hypothyroid diagnosis.