Sentences with phrase «of the population from»

«A lot of the growth in our country came after World War Two, with the influx of population from Europe, mainly.

As summit organizer Mark Goldberg has written on several occasions, the price of broadband isn't the only thing keeping a large swath of the population from getting online.

That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.

My quarrel with the guardians of the establishment is not that these things are bad, but rather that the establishment leaders use artificial barriers, such as race and religion and ethnic origin, to exclude certain segments of the population from ever having the opportunity to enjoy these fruits of the good life.

Using this measure, evangelicals declined as an overall percentage of the population from 26 percent in 2007 to 25 percent in 2014.

You see evolution is defined as «change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift.»

The need for such work was impressed upon the Churches by the constant movement of population from the midst of settled communities with churches to the frontier with few social and no religious institutions.

It was a source of concern for the opposition party and certain segments of the population from the very start, and after the end of the Bush administration, when Obama had those sweeping powers, the questioning of those broad powers gained more momentum as previous supporters suddenly found it to be troubling.

Then I added a «Population Moved» multiplier which moved X % of the population from each state to California, to preserve the initial 322,446,343 number (this is slightly lower than I asked about) and fiddled with that percentage by hand.

«All polling is based on the assumption that you are trying to interview a sample of the population from which you reckon you can come up with an accurate estimate,» says John Curtice at the University of Strathclyde, one of the UK's leading pollsters.

Those are choices that males make, and you can't just exclude one half of the population from the data against which you're going to test your hypothesis.

Kadane, William Thompson, of the University of California, Irvine, Black & White Forensics, LLC's John Black and Michigan State University's Anil Jain illustrate in «Forensic Science Assessments: A Quality and Gap Analysis of Latent Fingerprint Analysis» that while latent fingerprint examiners can successfully rule out most of the population from being the source of a latent fingerprint based on observed features, insufficient data exist to determine how fingerprint features really are unique.

As many as 25 «megacities» around the world could see rising oceans force at least 50 percent of their populations from their homes and businesses.

«Speciation is the evolutionary process that gives rise to new species, and it occurs when barriers prevent two groups of populations from exchanging genes,» said Rice co-author Scott Egan.

(Immunity in some of those populations from past outbreaks, however, may be protecting them from large epidemics.)

The «Forensic Science Assessments: A Quality and Gap Analysis of Latent Fingerprint Analysis» report makes clear that while latent fingerprint examiners can successfully rule out most of the population from being the source of a latent fingerprint based on observed features, insufficient data exist to determine how unique fingerprint features really are, thus making it scientifically baseless to claim that an analysis has enabled examiners to narrow the pool of sources to a single person.

Profiling of populations from individual resting or TDLNs revealed significant transcriptional alterations in these cells.

We reveal the distinct and datable expansion routes of populations from these three refugia throughout Southwest Asia and into Europe and North Africa and discuss the possible correlations of these migrations to various cultural and climatic events evident in the archaeological record of the past 15,000 years.

This German film tells the story of the Japanese sacking of Nanking, China in 1937 and the part German engineer Rabe played in saving great numbers of the population from murder and rape.

The low wage prevents the strong majority of the population from attaining ebook readers like the Sony, Nook, Kindle, or Kobo and only a fringe segment that can afford it.

Finally, fear of making a homebuying mistake has kept a sizable portion of the population from buying — pushing rents up.

Right there, we can eliminate about 90 % of the population from active investing.

Finally, we looked at the percentage of the population from newborn to 9 years old, to make sure your kids will have fun with friends their age as they grow up.

The CRTC said more Canadians are going mobile, with smartphone ownership increasing to 67 per cent of the population from 62 per cent in 2013.

This type of credit score would eliminate 25 % of the population from qualifying for a low rate FHA home financing based on today's lending guidelines.

This type of credit score would preclude a quarter of the population from receiving a mortgage given current underwriting standards.

She was part of the population from the blood bank facility located in Cherokee, TX that closed in November 2017.

He was part of the population from the blood bank facility located in Cherokee, TX that closed in November 2017.

The focus of the film is on the Roma hip - hop band Tahribad - ı İsyan, who gives a voice to the resistance against the displacement of entire parts of the population from the city.

Scotland has done far, far better pound per head of population from Britain's lottery than it strictly deserves.

A 1960 census listed just 382 permanent residents living in Tribeca, less than half of the population from a decade before.

In fact, as a theme, it would make a great theme for a Science Tuesday section, which could cover the topic of population from all sorts of angles.

It is time to begin «planning» for the migration of our population from the Southern part of the country elsewhere.

Hansen argues the dramatic sea level rise could put the earth's coastal cities in grave peril while a sudden influx of population from those cities will bring discord and conflict to the rest of the world.

Add to declining birth rates the exodus of population from Europe (except for the influx of Muslims into western Europe), and there is no population growth crisis at all — we will actually need more people than are being born now.

The overall combined effects of environmental perturbations caused by climate change could ultimately result in the displacement of some populations from their current geographical ranges and ultimately in the extinction of some marine mammal species (Kovacs et al. 2010).

But if Mediterranean foods with lower nutritional values are preventing some parts of the population from optimal health, it's an issue that really needs to be addressed.

So comments like «[i] t prevents this segment of the population from effectively getting married to begin with» are not that persuasive when the cost of having secular courts wade into what are essentially personal religious matters is compromising secular values.

In particular, the case concerned «removals» of this population from sidewalks and city parks by Downtown Ambassadors, private security guards employed by the DVBIA.

Therefore, the resulting parameters are representative of the population from which the sample was drawn.

Despite the large sample obtained being representative of the population from which it was drawn, failure to obtain data from all individuals will have the consequence of limiting data available to the current and future record linkages conducted within the NSW - CDS framework.

This article uses a portion of a population from a previous study of Spoth et al. (1998).

Scientists have found that what separates the happiest 10 % of the population from everyone else is the strength of their social bonds.

Not exact matches

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.

To capture television metrics, iSpot collects viewership information from smart TVs, and then uses a set of formulas to extrapolate it across the general population.

In 2013 the German software giant SAP made a commitment to hire one percent of its workforce from among people on the autism spectrum, roughly reflecting the neurological condition's prevalence in the population at large.

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.

The Pacific nation of Vanuatu is preparing to permanently evacuate the entire population of one of its islands as thick ash spewing from a volcano kills crops, dirties water supplies and fouls the air.

The Academy - Award winning actress graduated with her bachelor's in drama from Boston University and as a Mensa member, she is considered to have an IQ score «within the upper two percent of the general population.»

The violence was mirrored last weekend, when members of the city's large Turkish population took to the streets to protest after two ministers from Turkey were blocked from entering the country.