Sentences with phrase «overwhelming majority of the population»

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.

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

The overwhelming majority of the population regarded themselves as Roman Catholics, but the degree of their conformity to the standards of the faith, already low, dropped further.

The overwhelming majority of the population professes to be catholic, and statements from members of the church - from the top Vatican levels to town priests - are taken into serious consideration by a lot of people.

The political implications are clear: a shift by Labour to policies that motivate the overwhelming majority of the population threatened by the Tories» planned harsh economic policies could prevent a Conservative government.

Because the overwhelming majority of the population is overweight and overfat, this overwhelmingly means that people stabilize at a lower weight and lower body fat percentage.

In the United States, the overwhelming majority of the population (i.e., all except recent immigrants and a scattering of Indian and Eskimo groups) has become acculturated to the dominant New World version of European culture.

I raise Turkey (a country where the overwhelming majority of the population is Muslim) to highlight that there exists an illiberal brand of secularism out there that prevails amongst some people (and governs some countries) that has nothing to do with animus towards a particular religion, but still prohibits the niqab.

The private Bar no longer serves the overwhelming majority of the population, whether individuals with limited means or those who are unwilling to expend very large amounts on legal services.

There are three key reasons why term life remains the go - to policy for an overwhelming majority of the population:.

An overwhelming majority of the population resides in the north central area of the state in Salt Lake County, Utah County, Davis County, Weber County and Cache County.

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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.

Of course, the practical difference can not be ignored: Hindus are an overwhelming majority closely associated with political, economic and social power while Christians are less than 3 percent of the population without any realistic chance of economic and political influence at a national leveOf course, the practical difference can not be ignored: Hindus are an overwhelming majority closely associated with political, economic and social power while Christians are less than 3 percent of the population without any realistic chance of economic and political influence at a national leveof the population without any realistic chance of economic and political influence at a national leveof economic and political influence at a national level.

«It is a completely unworkable situation with two different classes of MPs and once people actually understand that the English are 85 per cent of the population, that their MPs are in the overwhelming majority in the parliament, I think a lot of these issues fall away.»

These voters make up nearly half the population as a whole and, crucially, they make up more than half of the population of the overwhelming majority of England's marginal seats.

«Health officials in both Mississippi and West Virginia report that overwhelming majorities of the public support their policies and that opposition comes from a very small number of the population.

Considering the overwhelming majority of sales come from a territory that is less than 10 % of the total population of the combined major territories (NA, EU, Japan), I can say with confidence that the Japanese enjoy Dynasty Warriors.

With an overwhelming the majority of the Western world's population having a smartphone (and commuting long hours every day), podcasts are once again on the rise.

Keep in mind that the overwhelming majority of greenhouse gases have been, and continue to be, emitted by the massive fossil fuel consumption of a tiny percentage of the Earth's human population, most of them in countries with low rates of population growth — and that the overwhelming majority of human beings on the Earth, particularly those in countries with relatively high rates of population growth, generate only a small amount of greenhouse gases.

... in this era of mass incarceration — when our nation's prison population has quintupled in a few decades partly as a result of the war on drugs and the «get tough» movement — these [jury] rights are, for the overwhelming majority of people hauled into courtrooms across America, theoretical.