Sentences with phrase «numbers of adults who»

I meet increasing numbers of adults who are struggling with this dilemma.

The findings should also probably serve as a warning to the growing number of adults who behave like high school sophomores and attempt to measure their self worth in likes, followers, and the empty admiration of near strangers.

The number of adults who regularly feel spiritual peace and well - being is up from 52 percent in 2007 to 59 percent in 2014 (margin of error for all Americans: ± 0.6 %), and evangelicals are no exception.

The occasional spurts of mass violence don't make me consider gun bans, but the astounding number of adults who believe in fairy tales is possibly reason enough.

You might think that indulging in a bit of artistic creativity might not necessarily offer much in the way of easing your mind from what is troubling you, but there are a growing number of adults who are embracing this idea.

Every aspect of the American family is experiencing change, including the number of adults who marry, the number of households that are formed by married people, the number of children that are conceived, and the number of non-family households (Nock, 2005).

Miller noted that this was an initial report about the number of adults who viewed the eclipse and how they prepared for the eclipse event.

Based on the number of adults who get booster shots within the recommended 10 - year interval, they estimate that changing to a 30 - year schedule would reduce the costs of vaccination by two - thirds, a reduction of approximately $ 280 million per year in health care costs, and approximately $ 1 billion in cost savings within four years.

One model proposes that genetic diversity was lost in two distinct bottlenecks, where groups of hundreds or thousands of migrating people were quickly decimated by disease, starvation, warfare, or some other cause, dramatically reducing the number of adults who bore children that survived.

And the number of adults who own an e-book reading device like a Kindle or Nook reader jumped from 24 % in September to 32 % after the holidays.

The share of Americans who read e-books grew to 23 percent from 16 percent over the past year while the number of adults who read printed books fell to 67 percent from 72 percent, according to a study released Thursday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

According to a new COUNTRY Financial Security Index ® survey, the number of adults who think college is a good investment dropped to 57 percent, down from 81 percent in 2008.

Not exact matches

There is a growing number of adults on the autism spectrum who want to enter the workforce but can't.

And while they've been successful in helping some nicotine - addicted adults stop using tobacco products, the number of teens who smoke has soared since their introduction.

The result: a multiyear, multinational, ongoing research project known as the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, or GEM, which counts (in effect) the number of working - age adults who are engaged in acts of company creation.

Record number people no longer believe, 8 years ago the young adults who could vote now couldn't then, and there are a lot more of them then those who believe.

As an atheist who believes in «Choice» (I dislike the idea of abortion but see the need for people to be able to opt for it) and polygamy (marriage should be for any number of consenting adults regardless of gender) and believes that the idea of draconian anti-gun measures is anathema as it takes away an individual's right to live the way he wants to live, I think that if believing in a deity makes a person treat other people nicer then we should leave that person and his beliefs alone.

While many of us can thank God that our children are not likely to die from flu, diphtheria, or polio, or even suffer the mumps, measles, or rubella because of advances in medicine, we must be mindful of the enormous number of children and adults in this country and abroad who are forced to live as if these advances were never made.

The numbers tell the tale, from Gallup; The United States remains a predominantly Christian nation, with 78 % of all adults identifying with a Christian faith, and more than 9 in 10 of those who have a religious ident.ity identifying as Christians.

«During the past decade the number of high school youth in our congregations increased fivefold, and the number of young adults increased sixfold,» said Buehrens, who this fall is a visiting professor at the UUA's Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley.

These losses, however, have been partly offset by the number of people who have changed their affiliation to Catholicism (2.6 % of the adult population) but more importantly by the disproportionately high number of Catholics among immigrants to the U.S..

A quarter of adults who attended religious services weekly in 2006 said they sometimes drank too much, a number that rose as church attendance decreased, according to the General Social Survey.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

I know a number of young adults who believe that sex is wrong before marriage and also have body - shame issues.

The Bible provided an exact figure of the number of adult male Jews who left Egypt, and while traveling in the desert the Jews were commanded by God on more than one occasion to count the population of the various tribes.

«The number of U.S. adults who say they are cutting down on or avoiding gluten is too large for restaurant operators to ignore,» observes Bonnie Riggs, a restaurant industry analyst for NPD.

They will actually end up developing a bigger number of secure attachments to loving adults, and having relationships with new people who can teach them new things and offer perspectives that their parents can't have (because we're all limited in terms of what we can know, and how we view things) and in general, their squad of caregivers is going to expand and that is nothing but good.

A: I wanted to show in a tangible way that the number of adults out there who support youth athletes the right way do, in fact, outnumber the crazies.

The study found that between 1993 and 2000, the number of babies 7 months old or younger who usually shared a bed with an adult grew from 5.5 percent to 12.8 percent.

According to First Candle, a nonprofit educational organization on sleep - safety, «The number of babies who die in adult beds and other unsafe sleep environments (i.e.: an armchair or couch) is on the rise.

While there is evidence that accidental suffocation can and does occur in bed - sharing situations, in the overwhelming number of cases (sometimes in 100 % of them) in which a real overlay by an adult occurs, extremely unsafe sleeping condition or conditions can be identified including situations where adults are not aware that the infant was in the bed, or an adult sleeping partners who are drunk or desensitized by drugs, or indifferent to the presence of the baby.

(1) Get up and walk; (2) don't plan on anything other than small light meals the first 24 hours afterwards; (3) take stool softener; (4) bring flip - flops; (5) use the nursery; (6) bring the number of a lactation consultant who can visit you in the hospital if you plan to nurse; (7) try to line up 1:1 adult to baby for the first few weeks, especially late afternoon and early evening.

Look at whether the plain packaging of tobacco products could be an effective way to reduce the number of young people who take up smoking and to support adult smokers who want to quit, and consult on options by the end of the year.

So for political judgment, the numbers from the copied table should maybe be corrected by including the percentage of adults who are taxed at 0 $.

There is good information on the number of persons naturalized in each state going back more or less indefinitely, which when compared to the number of foreign born people in each state can be used to determine the percentage of foreign born adults in each state who are not U.S. citizens, and extrapolated to the county level foreign born statistics to get a good approximation of the number of adult non-citizens in each county in the U.S. Just under half of foreign born persons are naturalized U.S. citizens.

There are a number of areas where the state could step up its funding, Choi said, but as an example, he suggested an increase in adult literation education, noting that there's current about 3.5 million New Yorkers who don't have English proficiency or a GED.

«Property Tracker», which reports the views of over 2,000 UK adults about the housing market every three months, also highlights a sharp jump in the number of people who see raising a deposit as a barrier to home ownership, up from 62 % in June to 69 % in September, the highest percentage reported for this factor since the survey began in June 2008.

The study found that a number of young people who had suffered from language problems in childhood often still find it difficult to understand speech as young adults, especially when spoken quickly.

An advantage among new enrollees doesn't necessarily translate into an advantage among actual voters for Democrats, as young adults tend to be both more liberal and less likely to vote than their older neighbors, but the current trend doesn't appear to be driven by an large number of 18 year olds who filled out registration forms to please their parents and have no intention of actually voting.

Although a lower percentage of the U.S. adult population owns them, those who do own several; the average number of guns per owner is up from 4.1 per person in 1994 to 6.9 in 2004.

In reviewing 13 studies, the task force saw evidence that screening can detect increased fluid pressure and early glaucoma in adults and that timely treatment for fluid pressure reduces the number of people who lose their vision from the disease.

«I've seen the port grow from being sort of an interesting place to an environmental nightmare,» said Dr. John G. Miller, an emergency room doctor and an environmental activist who has treated large numbers of harbor - area children suffering asthma attacks and adults suffering heart attacks.

«Although the numbers of newly infected children as well as the numbers of children who die from HIV - related deaths has declined dramatically since 2000, despite WHO recommendations, children are still less likely to be offered ART treatment than adults,» says Lajowho die from HIV - related deaths has declined dramatically since 2000, despite WHO recommendations, children are still less likely to be offered ART treatment than adults,» says LajoWHO recommendations, children are still less likely to be offered ART treatment than adults,» says Lajoie.

«Higher cigarette prices also increase the likelihood of smoking cessation among adult smokers: every 10 - percent increase in cigarette prices leads to a two - percent reduction in the number of people who smoke.

The number of people who have food allergies has increased in recent decades with around 5 - 7 % of infants and 1 - 2 % of adults at risk and The University of Manchester is part of a project «Integrated Approaches to Food Allergen and Allergy Management» (iFAAM; http://www.inflammation-repair.manchester.ac.uk/iFAAM/), which aims to provide better advice for health workers and the public and, ultimately reduce the burden of allergy across Europe.

While the labels of asthma and COPD are valuable for patients who display stereotypical symptoms, there are a growing number of patients who do not fit this category, including patients with adult - onset asthma, smoking asthmatics, or patients with the so - called asthma - COPD overlap syndrome.

And in 2012, IHME's estimates of adult malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa were dramatically higher than WHO's numbers.

The new report uses survey data to estimate the number of CHC patients who would gain coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and a key part of the law — the adult Medicaid expansion.

«E-cigarettes will likely cause more public health harm than public health benefit unless ways can be found to substantially decrease the number of adolescents and young adults who vape and increase the number of smokers who use e-cigarettes to successfully quit smoking,» says Soneji.

«Although the tobacco industry markets e-cigarettes as a tool to help adult smokers quit smoking, e-cigarette use actually only marginally increases the number of adult cigarette smokers who are able to successfully quit,» says principle investigator Samir Soneji, PhD, Associate Professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.