Sentences with phrase «majority of the population did»

«It was at that moment I realized that the majority of the population doesn't have any sort of mental road map for how to relate to and work with someone different from themselves.»

The Church potentially has a problem here: we talk in our funny languages with our funny terminologies; the vast majority of the population doesn't know what those things mean.

As for your seriously off base torture comparison, if we saw a drastic increase in violent crimes, and there was a public outcry for harsher punishments to try and serve as a deterrent, and the Bill was drafted, made open to the public, and the solid majority of the population didn't turn against it with protests, signatures, and contacting their representatives; maybe a torture law could make it (though it would never get past the Supreme Court as the Consttution is now, but we'll let that slide as a hypothetical).

BUT don't forget, the majority of the population don't like your religion either but doubt they waste their time complaining about it.

Labour have no hope of government until they recognise that the majority of the population do not like an ideological left wing government, but if they can have a government that supports business, and success, but also cares for people by maintaining the NHS and necessary public services, and taxes fairly.

I agree a Target Fund is definitely better than what the majority of the population does, but you can do better with a little bit of work.

People who paid taxes diligently complained that the vast majority of the population did not pay taxes and that they belonged to a minority.

Not exact matches

In addition, while the majority of business owners surveyed across all segments said they did not feel a perception of discrimination from a financial institution impacted their chances of obtaining business credit, 22 % of African American and 11 % of LGBT business owners reported that perceived discrimination impacted their chances of obtaining credit for their business, compared to 5 % of the general small business owner population.

When the majority of your population are idiots, do you really expect they will make rational decisions?

What do you think of the great majority of the population that has not served in the military?

«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.»

''... 98 % of the world's population sides with my view...» A majority share your view that there is a god, the majority do not believe in your god — that alone should be a warning sign that your religion is not correct.

Anytime I questioned the idea of God damning the majority of the human population to hell, I was told that this subject was not negotiable, that God picks and chooses who He wants to save and we can't do anything about it.

After a pretty lame attempt to explain to him how doubt has actually enriched my faith over the years, how walking with a limp has made me more dependent on the steady shoulder of my heavenly Father, and how I don't really want to be fixed if being fixed means accepting without question or concern the notion that God creates the majority of the human population for hell with no hope for salvation, I decided just to turn the response over to you guys instead.

There are patriarchal societies where Muslims are a majority of the population, true, but Islam does not relegate women to a second class citizen.

The only thing this article / stats proves that the 95.4 % non-Muslim majority population of UK has choices of 100s of names and they don't have a strong affinity to a single name to name their babies.

The acts of one deranged mind does not represent the vast majority of the christian population, but don't tell that to Mr. Stephen Prothero, who has an obvious agenda.

Although they were never able to make France a Calvinist country (as their coreligionists did in Scotland and elsewhere), they did in the 1560s and 1570s attract between 7 and 10 percent of the French population, including a slight majority of the nobility, as well as seven of the 114 Catholic bishops.

For while evangelical expressions of Christianity in America have been increasing in strength and influence in recent years, there is still a major, if not majority, segment of the American population whose religious faith does not fall under the evangelical umbrella.

A majority of the general voting population did not.)

We must also note that the large majority of those who migrated from the Old World to the Thirteen Colonies did so from other than religious motives and that as late as A.D. i8oo less than one - tenth of the population of what by then had become the United States held membership in any of the churches.

And the vast majority of people studying evolutionary processes are not trying to disprove god - they are too busy doing population genetics, DNA extractions and amplifications to debate something that silly.

I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that the vast majority of the US population (when universities and hospitals were being built) was Christian.

The resolution of the problem of injustice requires a fundamental re-examination of the relationship between the one billion people, or 20 per cent of the world's population, who live in industrialized countries and who use 80 per cent of the world's resources and the majority of the world's population in poor countries who have to make do with 20 per cent of the world's resources.

They generally do not reach the masses of working people and underprivileged families who comprise the vast majority of the black population.

For the first time in the U.S.» relatively young history, they do not make up the majority of the population.

In the last national census, done in 1992, it was revealed that 13.2 % of the population over 14 years of age is Protestant, of which the large majority is Pentecostal.

This post is really for the majority of the population who aren't affected by gluten, or are wondering what to do with some level of sensitivity to it.

I believe this is much different from popular press magazines advising us as what you're both doing is explaining human development and evolved caregiving practices (which in people who understand healthy relationship dynamics is intuitive and based on common sense, but is not the majority of our population) to people struggling to figure out how to make their primary love relationships work so they don't end in divorce, split families, or unattached / needy people.

Village planners have said that the 2000 Census did not count all residents of the new downtown condos, as a majority were unoccupied when the census was being conducted, and they predict a population growth between 1,000 and 1,200.

I believe that the SIDS risks associated with co-sleeping do not apply to the majority of the population.

The process of freezing, if kept at a constant 0 degree temp does not contribute to a TOTAL loss of nutrients — if it did, then the majority of the population would be malnourished as we rely on and eat a large amount of frozen foods.

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.

However, the population growth did pose some changes for legislative maps; two northern state senate districts were merged so that a new one could appear in the southern part of the state, and as for the House, its new map preserved four Wilmington majority - minority districts and moved two northern New Castle County districts to Kent and Sussex counties.

(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.

Also, you raise a good point re: Russia; I didn't make it clear enough in the question but IMHO elections of a tzar don't count - by «elections» I meant popular elections (e.g. majority of population is eligible to vote), not «10 boyars electing someone».

Said Tatiana Baranowska, Director the Land of the Leopard National Park which holds the majority of Far Eastern leopards left in the world: «We are doing our utmost, in concert with our Chinese colleagues, to improve and expand leopard habitat to enlarge the existing population.

«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.»

They found that inseminated queens had close to a 100 percent success rate in terms of how many of their eggs hatched, whereas in case of queens that remain virgins, from both clonally and sexually reproducing populations, a majority of the eggs did not make it past early stages of embryo development.

It wouldn't matter if the «daughterless» genetic strain escaped to South America - it wouldn't do any harm to the local toads unless the majority of the local population had the modified gene.

Do you make sure to eat as many clean, natural foods as possible or you're addicted to junk food like the majority of the population?

For the majority of the population, improving longevity and general health can be done by brisk walking for 20 minutes three times a week — and doesn't involve spending money joining a gym.

However, The majority of the US population is suffering from chronic, low levels of Vitamin D because we don't get enough exposure to the sun.

«The significant majority of Native American populations on reservations do not have hookups for fresh water.

While some people do have conditions and diseases that can be alleviated with some simple dietary strategies, the majority of the population needs something -LSB-...]

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

For every cute look such as this outfit featuring the Timshel Fringed Cardigan ($ 300, above) there are about 20 looks like the one with the Sidone Maxi Skirt ($ 138), which features a stange color combination and proportions that don't look sleek, elegant or wearable for a majority of the population.

I'm sure you know as well as me that there are that many choices of «how to meet someone» these days that conventional wisdom seems to suggest that the vast majority of the population just don't know where to begin.

This is not to say the «other» is always morally superior or anything, but it's a crucial fact in understanding apartheid that, it bears repeating, it was the NATIVE population, the MAJORITY of the country (do the aliens outnumber the humans in this film?)

With the vast majority of the world's population now using surrogates to do everything from going on adventures to going to work, the production of surries, as they're called, is now more a case of tweaking and fine tuning for maximum effect.