Sentences with phrase «majority of the population in»

Always being picked on even though you make up the overwhelming majority of the population in the US!

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.

A good example would be the Chagos Islands, where Britain evicted the majority of the population in the 1970s in order to allow the US to build a military base.

Now with that said, one of the other major reasons that the majority of the population in «westernized» countries are more and more vitamin D deficient is that our animals are being raised in indoor factory environments nowadays and are seeing MUCH less sunshine than the animals are meant to see.

However, the activity levels of the majority of the population in Asian cultures (and across the world) is quickly beginning to approximate western culture.

The majority of the population in the neighborhood has been Alevis [4] since its foundation.

The majority of the population in Brazil has not gravitated towards the electronic versions of books yet, but this might change now that a major online retailer has entered the country.

Suneet Singh Tuli further added, «The majority of the population in India still is not connected to the Internet.

Since a majority of the population in the rest of the U.S. drives, this creates a stark contrast between those living in metropolitan areas and those living in other locations across the country.

Without changes, we will continue to underserve the majority of the population in all states.

People with limited ranges of motion, or those constrained to a wheelchair or bed, constitute a majority of the population in nursing homes.

A majority of the population in the U.S. are seniors — elderly and retired people who do not have to work for a living any more.

And claims about winning over the majority of a population in any given state are entirely untested.

It is necessary to bring the new financial technologies from the digital space to the physical world, to the day to day life of the potential client who does not yet know them, which still represents the majority of the population in the world.

Buckley explained why he's worried: When Camp proposes a significant increase in the IRS» standard deduction combined with the repeal of deductions for state and local income taxes, he would be putting a large majority of the population in the position where it's more beneficial to choose the standard deduction, rather than itemizing their tax deductions.

Buckley explained why he's worried: When Camp proposes a significant increase in the standard deduction combined with the repeal of deductions for state and local income taxes, he would be putting a large majority of the population in the position where it's more beneficial to choose the standard deduction, rather than itemizing their tax deductions.

Medicaid has been and will likely continue to be the answer for long - term care for a majority of the population in the United States for the foreseeable future unless something changes with policy makers and / or some sort of public / private solution emerges.

Not exact matches

His youth and enthusiasm for reform work in his favor, in a country where the majority of the population is young and eager for work.

Out of a total population of around 32.5 million people, the majority are in their mid-30s or younger, according to government data.

«The vast majority of the population is unbanked and trapped in cash,» says Kathleen McGowan, senior policy advisor with the Washington - based U.S. Agency for International Development.

All this to achieve their namesake, a passionate play off a recent prediction that in 2040, non-whites will form the majority of the American population for the first time ever.

Singapore is the only country in which overseas Chinese form a majority; they compose three - quarters of the population.

As Pein shows, the world where a handful of billionaires own more wealth than the majority of the world's population is not just the stuff of fantasy, it's the world we're living in.

This group actually holds a majority of the power over robo advisors because the majority of global AUM is in the hands of this small share of the population.

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.

In addition, the vast majority of the local population wasn't working during the evacuation.

Unfortunately, in the United States a majority of the population think the only way you can actually get rich is by winning the lottery.

With such favorable regulations, the vast majority of American companies are incorporated in Delaware — a state with the sixth smallest population in the country.

Given a range of approaches to incentives, the largest segments in the vast majority of the locations — typically about half of the population — preferred the approach of offering special incentives to Amazon, but within reason.

«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.»

I'd rather see capitalism curbed early then see the massive amount of decline in quality of life, health, and prosperity for the overwhelming majority of the population necessary to balance the scales via the free market.

However, a developer or group of developers could potentially propose a modification to the Bitcoin Network that is not accepted by a vast majority of miners and users, but that is nonetheless accepted by a substantial population of participants in the Bitcoin Network.

Atheists currently hold the overwhelming majority of the Noble Prizes, make up less that 0.5 % of the US prison population, have less that 1 % of the divorces in America and have given us many of the scientific and technological achievements you enjoy today... your argument has just been utterly destroyed.

If we got rid of all the Christians in the country, we would get rid of the vast majority of the prison population.

Now we are trying to move past that, but religion has it's hooks in a majority of the world's population.

The majority of world cultures and populations BELIEVE in GOD.

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

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While I am sorry the LGBT community has suffered, the majority of the population is not gay, they are poor, and I am thrilled that the poor have a champion in the new pope.

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.

I am happy to see that the majority of the US population is now in favor of gay marriage and civil unions, and about 75 % of young people are.

This ideology is the basis for a mode of production, especially in the affluent countries, whose thirst for profit and for irrational expansion has not only promoted the pauperization of the majority of the planet's human population but has also led to the plundering and pollution of nature.

We all still break but not so often because of hunger anymore, at least not in the western world where the middle class is now easily the majority by population and poverty is a small percent.

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.

The population of the Immoral Majority in 2008?

«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.»

The majority of the world population believes in some god (s) type.

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).

''... 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.

A decade after having proclaimed the «end of history» and the arrival of a new world order of prosperity based on «democracy and the market», globalised financial capital has subjected the majority of the planet's working populations to the burden of international recession, which has spread out in leaps and bounds, from Asia: recession and deflation in the world's second economy, Japan; recession and even depression m various east Asian countries, since the first quarter of 1997; the collapse of the Russian economy six years ago and financial bankruptcy in July 1998; brutal recession in the leading economy of Latin America, Brazil; the beginning of the downturn in the economies of the OECD countries.