Sentences with phrase «more of the population»

I do know, however, that as more and more of our populations sinks deeper and deeper into poverty, what we are doing now is not working.

The other two Orthodox churches represent perhaps half or more of the population.

Pentecostal and Full Gospel churches are the biggest Protestant groups in the hardest - hit islands, where Christians make up 75 percent or more of the population.

We need to be careful however, if our rights have been so watered down with this level of Muslims in our country, think what will happen when they get to 10 % or more of the population.

Be happy someone is at your church... More & more of the population has been turning atheist like myself since 1985 about when the internet started coming around.

«The committee recommends that the government continue to make the case to their Chinese counterparts that a vibrant civil society can offer benefits to both government and people, and should be encouraged, in the interests of involving more of the population in systems of governance and advocacy.»

By contrast, Manchester City Council leads the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities which welcomes devolution and has a strategic plan for escaping the «jaws of death» by getting more of the population back to work.

The odds of HPV vaccine initiation among girls living in communities where 20 percent or more of the population was living below the poverty level were 1.18 times greater than for those living in the least impoverished communities.

India in particular has resisted promising early cuts, saying that would harm its ability to give more of its population access to much - needed air conditioning and refrigeration.

As more of our population become obese and overweight, obesity diseases become much more prevalent.

About 1 % or more of the population reacts to wheat gluten with an immune response and an inflammatory disorder of the small intestine which may cause malabsorption of key minerals, amino acids and vitamins.

(Scholars said that most studies using online dating data are about heterosexuals, because they make up more of the population.)

They have observed, for instance, that many daters would rather admit to being fat than liberal or conservative... most studies using online dating data are about heterosexuals, because they make up more of the population.)

This year, people age 65 or older make up 15 percent or more of the population in only four states.

In this year as well as last, per capita sales were highest in counties with high poverty rates, where 20 percent or more of the population lives under the federal poverty line.

That decline is partly because more and more of this population is unable to continue to work, but it also suggests that retirement savings may start to run out as people age.

You knew that Wal - Mart would never be happy with satisfying just two - thirds or more of the population.

Countries where 50 % or more of the population believe that premarital sex is morally unacceptable also make less than $ 11,000 a year.

Lose agricultural produvity, and more of the population will have to produce food; most of what is left will be devoting their labor to producing other neccisties.

After each evacuation, New Orleans appears at risk of losing ever more of its population, not in a refugee - style rush like those described by many climate campaigners, but as one household at a time gives up the fight.

Under all but the two most extreme scenarios (fixed 4 °C warming or RCP 8.5 through 2100), Florida holds 40 % or more of the population living on potentially affected land.

Developing countries use coal, natural gas, and renewable energy to provide electricity to more of their populations.

No Impact Man posts this interesting graph showing what happens when more of the population walks, cycles, or takes public transit: they are generally skinnier and healthier.

This means asset seizure through public guardianship could become more common as more of the population ages.

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.

Not exact matches

As of Tuesday morning, it had 5,082 members — more than two times the population of St. Croix Falls.

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

«The Taliban is a much larger organization, controls roughly 10 - 12 % of the population of Afghanistan, has conducted a lot more attacks, and has some support among Afghanistan's conservative rural population,» Jones said.

In Mississippi, more than 37 % of the population owed money to care providers in 2015.

With a more equal population, average people will prosper and so will the majority of businesses.

China's working population is projected to decline by more than 10 % by 2050, while the number of retirees will triple, to more than 300 million.

The much more salient point is that Whole Foods gives Amazon ready access to affluent parts of the population.

The report also points out that Dreamers start businesses at more than twice the rate of the general population, in large part because they are used to making ends meet without help from the government.

Costs for those two mandatory spending programs are set to soar as more baby boomers retire, because that cohort represents such a large share of the U.S. population.

There are no more tattoos or nose rings than in a representative sample of the population.

A 2010 University of Brasilia study found that 1 in 5 Brazilian women under 40 — more than 5 million women overall, or about 22 % of Brazil's population — had had at least one abortion.

Canada's youth are 15 — 20 % more likely than the population as a whole to consider emigrating in search of the right job, a split surpassed only by our southern neighbours:

In an analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.

By sequencing a large portion of the population and finding the links between those conditions and particular genetic indicator, the company hopes to be able develop more effective treatments.

In fact, 78 percent of millennials and 74 percent of the general population think more companies should take a stand on important social issues.

A recent Statistics Canada Megatrends report suggests migration to Canada has accounted for the bulk of population growth since about 1999, and is only going to get more important in the coming decades:

More than 95 % of Newfoundland's population came to the island from western Europe in the mid-1700s, Gardner explains.

That's nearly half of the population and more than two times the average rate across the euro zone.

HP (hpq) recently said that they would dismiss 29,000 workers — more than the population of many U.S. towns.

The rest of the population wasn't much better: Overall, 66 percent of Americans are more likely to trust debit cards than credit cards.

The United Nations estimates that by 2050 more than 60 % of the world's population will lack fresh water for drinking and cooking.

Hong Kong and Israel have more self - made billionaires than any other place, when considered as a percentage of total population.

Canada has one of the youngest populations in the G7, even as it rapidly ages as more people hit retirement age with fewer replacement workers available as a result of low birth rates.

And in a warming world, the range of some of these disease spreaders is expanding, making population control efforts more urgent than ever.

That said, there are certain populations that are overrepresented on Twitter in the U.S., according to the Pew Research Center: young people aged 18 to 29, African - Americans, city dwellers, and audiences reporting a household income of $ 75,000 or more.