Sentences with phrase «percentages of our population lack»

The decline raises deeper questions alongside surveys showing large percentages of our population lack a sense of hope for the future.

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Yet, while exact statistics are lacking, by the end of the century the percentage of the population attending public worship, although larger than in Germany, appears to have declined from the level of the mid-century.

However, we don't yet know what percentage of the population is either lacking in pejvakin or has a less effective form of the protein.

Populations that arise from just a few individuals, however, tend to have members that share a relatively high percentage of DNA — a lack of genetic diversity that can strip them of the evolutionary resources that they may someday need to respond to a deadly new disease, a change in climate, or some other challenge.

Most introduced species are not able to do so, but a small percentage can, benefiting from the lack of natural controls like predators, competition, and climate fluctuations that would otherwise keep their populations in check.

Meanwhile, these four types of damage caused by the problem are getting worse: (1) to the population in that there are many thousands of people whose lives have been damaged for lack of legal services; (2) to the courts in that they are being clogged, as judges have warned, by high percentages of self - represented litigants, because their cases move much more slowly than those that have lawyers; (3) to the legal profession in that it is shrinking and is predicted to have a very negative future of contracting and of law firms failing; and, (4) to legal aid organizations because it is politically very unwise for governments to fund them better with taxpayers» money, to enable them to provide free legal services to more poor people, while the majority of the taxpayers can not obtain legal services for themselves at reasonable cost.

Factors considered in the health survey include infant mortality rates, teen birth rates, the percentage of population not covered by health insurance, per - capita expenditures for health care, percent of population lacking access to primary medical care, childhood immunization rates, and percentage of adults who smoke.