Sentences with phrase «on citizen population»

The census is used to administer the electoral systems and government funding of states based on citizen population.

Not exact matches

The African nation of Zambia, for instance, has only enough food available to provide its population with 1,870 calories on average, per day, according to a striking global map in the October issue of National Geographic — and in truth, in much of the world, such calorie counts offer an inflated view of what's actually accessible to most citizens, due to widespread poverty, civil unrest, natural disasters, corruption, government mismanagement, food - distribution failures, and other issues.

He also kicked out Uganda's Asian population (mostly Indian and Pakistani citizens), and spent large amounts on the military, both of which led to the country's economic decline.

Opposition to Obamacare, instead of being mixed and uneven, would quickly become unanimous as a result of what would amount to a broad tax increase on the population with zero payoff for the vast majority of citizens (since they remain uninsured.)

Vinayak Dalmia, Founder of AMBER is working on the world's largest identity project, Aadhaar 2.0, which is the largest citizen identity database covering a population of 1.2 billion in India.

Sure lets talk about «binder's of women» anything but the real issues like the human rights violations when we drop bombs on cities with unchecked drone power, spying on our own citizens, still waging war on our own population calling it a war on drugs and turning us into a gulag state.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

Doug Taron, chief curator at the Chicago Academy of Sciences / Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, works with citizen scientists through the Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network in the process of collecting quantitative data on butterfly populations.

Tunisia's 10 million residents and two million expatriate citizens are avid users of technology, however: 85 % of the population has cell phones (5 % smart phones), and roughly two million of them are on Facebook.

Central to this model are the principles of random selection and deliberation: the idea that a diverse body of ordinary citizens, chosen on a near - random basis so as to be descriptively representative of the citizen population, are willing and able to deliberate and make recommendations on constitutional questions.

The Electoral Reform Society has therefore teamed up with a range of universities to set up two pilot citizens» assemblies, essentially mini-conventions, which will bring representative samples of the population in the Sheffield and Southampton areas to deliberate on and decide where power should lie at a local level.

These public forums provide an opportunity to increase citizen awareness and participation in the Consortium's federal Community Development program by allowing the general public, as well as agency advocates for low and moderate income individuals, the elderly and handicapped to offer suggestions and information on the needs of these populations to County and municipal officials.

Ball said that she would focus on providing services for the Sixth Ward's large population of senior citizens and children.

On June 29, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner sent a letter to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano that expressed concerns «over the recent indictments of six scientists and a government official» because they «failed to alert the population of L'Aquila of an impending earthquake» despite the fact that there is «no accepted scientific method for earthquake prediction that can be reliably used to warn citizens of impending disaster.»

Based on data from the large H70 and women's population studies, researchers at the University of Gothenburg Center for Aging and Health (AgeCap) have examined the sexual attitudes of senior citizens and identified the factors that determine whether or not they remain sexually active.

Much who works in London appeared much busier, then the rest of Great Britain, for example, the middle London citizen wakes up on 44 minutes before, than rest of population of Great Britain.

While the raids had a demoralising effect on many of the population in the township, the Australian spirit shone through with the military personnel doing their best to repel the attackers and in doing so defending their country and their fellow citizens.

Maybe, instead of trampling on the rights of every American citizen you can educate the population.

The percentage of tax revenue from each citizen that goes to paying interest on debt will keep rising as the population decreases.

Assist the Research Team of the Gili Shark & Marine Conservation Project, who work on a variety of marine citizen science research projects with the aim of improving shark populations and awareness in the Gili Islands and Indonesia.

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) warned on Tuesday that people should remain alert for more landslides in the country as about 40 million citizens, 17 percent of the population, live in landslide - prone areas.

However, the rate of tax (e.g. Simoleon generation) is based on Happiness of the population — happier citizens pay more in taxes.

Selected works from artists, designers, coders, technologists, and citizens alike explore data on population counts, Manhattan tree topography, civil servant job duties, and more, highlighting the wide variety of open data available to all.

I remain surprised that some citizens of the US really seem convinced that a country with around 5 % of the world's population, should have the authority to impose its occasionally bizarre practices on the rest of the world.

If we focus our EcoChallenge teams not only on people who are already committed, and strive to include those who are just beginning on that path, we are not only taking actions that make a difference, we are adding to the population of committed citizens who will go on to take new actions in the future.

In addition, the country is on the cusp of a huge economic and social challenge: it has a population of just over 18 million citizens of which 50 % are under 15 years old, which is growing at a fast pace of 3 % annually.

After a few minutes, it appeared to me that he opposed the very idea of Alberta on principle and wasn't at all interested in hearing my argument (based on Ezra Levant's book Ethical Oil) that I'd rather buy my oil from Alberta than from undemocratic regimes like Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, or Nigeria; regimes that either brutalize women, exploit the local population, decapitate those convicted of «crimes,» stone adulterers, discriminate against minorities, have no environmental standards whatsoever, or try to govern their citizens as if it's the 8th century and not the 21st.

Article 28 (3) of Directive 2004 / 38 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States amending Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 and repealing Directives 64 / 221 / EEC, 68 / 360 / EEC, 72 / 194 / EEC, 73 / 148 / EEC, 75 / 34 / EEC, 75 / 35 / EEC, 90 / 364 / EEC, 90 / 365 / EEC and 93 / 96 / EEC, is to be interpreted as meaning that sexual abuse of a 14 year old minor, sexual coercion and rape are not covered by the concept of «imperative grounds of public security» where those acts do not directly threaten the calm and physical security of the population as a whole or a large part of it.

Just like every other age demographic, the senior citizen population is on the rise, and senior renters are on the increase as well due to a combination of factors.

Comanche County has a population of about 13,000 that means there are officers on the road making sure citizens are obeying the traffic laws.