Sentences with phrase «population of a given country»

This is due to a large population of a given country losing faith in their national currency, trading in FIAT — in many cases, their entire savings — into a cryptocurrency.

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In 2008, just over 3,000 legal abortions were performed in the entire country — a tiny number given that Brazil has a population of 200 million.

The Amendment is a vitally important one for the female half of the country's population: It gave (some) women the right to vote.

imagine for a second China gives long beach California to the Hui to create their own country the hue come over and put a wall around the native population with full support of a powerful nation lets say America.

As long as the Muslim population remains around 1 % of any given country they will be regarded as a peace - loving minority and not as a threat to anyone.

Given that the U.S. produces more engineers annually than any other country, I think Nye's statement, «when you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in it, it holds everyone back» is terribly overblown.

Just because the «atheist» countries you cite are large doesn't mean they had a particularly large number of deaths; you're just giving absolute numbers because it looks impressive given the population numbers.

The Ehrlichs speak openly of the need for sterilization policy in underdeveloped countries; another anti- population schemer, Garrett Hardin, speaks of giving magistrates unparalleled authority to limit growth.

The surge is stark, given that in 2011 only half of the global population (52 %) lived in such countries, while the worldwide level of government restrictions on religion remained largely the same between the two years.

Would you not concede to the thesis that effective liberationist impulses, as different from those which sought to mitigate the plight of the poverty - stricken and outcastes were stirred and given an institutional framework by Marxist movement especially in Kerala which has the largest Christian population in the country?

Wilson Chowdhry from the British Pakistani Christian Association told Premier's News Hour the quota system in Pakistan, which gives every region of the country representation in institutions according to their population, isn't currently reflecting the number of Christians in the country.

As such, I've developed recipes from all over the world, highlighting the unique ancestral makeup of the US population (and giving similar consideration for readers living in countries with historically high immigration, like Canada and Australia).

Though the mines help give Botswana, a country of 1.6 million people, a reasonably healthy economy, half the population lives in poverty, and the percentage of 15 - to -49-year-olds infected with HIV is the highest in the world.

Heather, I live in Spain, I am a childbirth educator and gave birth at home here 3 years ago and just wanted to say that home - birth in this country is absolutely a tiny minority of the population, with the same kind of societal attitudes as North America, so this ad has created a big stir as you can imagine!!!

Given the restrictions placed by successive governments on the foulard (headscarf) and the burka, together with the large French Muslim population (around 10 % of the 64 million total), the country would seem to have been fertile ground for fundamentalist anger and terrorist outrages.

Given Turkey's predominantly Muslim population and its geographic location, the EU does not want to risk an influx of Muslim immigrants, simply put Turkey's accession would open a backdoor to Europe for immigrants from Arabic and African countries, at a time when immigration is an extremely hot issue in European countries and several countries have recently implemented anti-immigration laws that would seem extreme and unjustified a decade ago.

The North Sea Oil has given Norway, a historically poor country, a lot of wealth that provides services to its population.

Is Turkey on the brink of civil war, given the recent violence against the country's Kurdish population?

By conducting surveys in Russia and Ukraine, using representative samples of the populations of both countries, this project seeks to unpick the elements which make up the national identity of Russians and Ukrainians, with particular emphasis given to Ukraine's varied and contested regions, such as Eastern Ukraine and Crimea.

This is of critical importance, given not only the continued vitality of the Jewish population at home, but the longstanding history of Jewish acceptance in countries like the Dominican Republic and growing Jewish population in places like Argentina, Brazil, and Panama, as well.

Schlachter says the best way to navigate the challenges of rapid population growth in low - income countries is by giving women and girls the autonomy and the tools to decide when and how many children they want to have.

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

Political economists, indeed, will not give it this rank; but whether we regard it as joke or earnest, it is not the less true, that, of two countries, with an equal amount of population, we may declare with positive certainty, that the wealthiest and most highly civilized is that which consumes the greatest weight of soap.

Sadly, the information gathered by Dublin and colleagues was limited in terms of quantity and quality and the report gives an unsatisfactory picture of the situation in some countries, sometimes even excluding the most important elephant populations.

Given that China is home to 20 percent of the planet's population and a burgeoning, ever more consuming middle class, it's not surprising that the country's footprint on the environment is growing.

Given the demographics of an ageing population in many countries, this could prove a crucial line of further research.

Last week, Norway's minister of agriculture and food gave the green light for hunters to kill off the entire herd in which three infected individuals were found, about 2000 reindeer, or nearly 6 % of the country's wild population.

-- In providing assistance under this section, the Administrator of USAID shall give priority to countries, including the most vulnerable communities and populations therein, that are most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change, determined by the likelihood and severity of such impacts and the country's capacity to adapt to such impacts.

How can countries avoid food insecurity and even displacement of rural populations given its consequences for human security?

Given the disparate performances among students from various cultural backgrounds, it may be worth inquiring as to whether differences between the United States and other countries are due to the presence of a substantial minority population within the United States.

«Given our country's unique mixture of democratic values, diverse populations, and sheer size,» she wrote, «this use of standards has been a wise approach to bridging these two needs.»

Daniel Dennehy, chief operations officer at UK Essays, acknowledges that this proportion of international students is exceptionally high, especially given that individuals from either other EU or non-EU countries account for less than a quarter of the UK's student population.

Given that it is a completely socialist country in which everyone's «needs» as determined by the government elite are provided through unbelievable levels of taxation; and, which was the perfect experimental environment for all of this due to its relative geographic isolation and extremely homogeneous population, it is no wonder that this country has surpassed every other in meeting the UN's and UNESCO's goals.

Given the difficulty of classifying this group of students, we acknowledge and hope to explore further the ways in which «first - generation» is defined, as well as other sub-categorizations that must be considered in addressing the needs of this population, such as a student's race, country of birth, language proficiency, school quality, and geographic location.

By providing flexible funding for a broad range of field - driven projects and allowing states, school districts, non-profits, and businesses to partner together to develop and grow innovative programs, projects funded by EIR will not only contribute to the production of actionable, proven interventions in a given community or population, but will generate an evidence base that can be adapted to inform practices and funding decisions for states and school districts across the country.

And a convoluted tale it is, involving the country's wealth of natural resources (coal, iron, copper and water for powering machines and transporting goods), the comparatively high literacy rate that enabled common folk to educate themselves in science and technology, a patent system that protected the rights of inventors and gave them economic incentive to both create and refine devices, and a population large and wealthy enough to form a profitable market for products the new industries turned out.

Given the population within the country, the abundance of tablets due to strong education initiatives in mobile technology, and the fact that English is one of its official languages, this comes as very little surprise.

As responsible pet owners, we take our animals for regular check - ups at the veterinarian's office, play with them, exercise regularly, give them much needed love and affection and as the majority of other countries also practice, animals must be licensed, vaccinated and most should be spayed or neutered to help control the pet population.

SAC gives you a place to not only put your information in, but freely view what other organizations have entered, and the more organizations that put their information in, the better our picture is of animal populations across the country.

Myra, is an example of both the challenges that are currently happening in the country with the stray population and the amazing care given to these animals by rescue organizations.

I don't know if the tour gave us a true feel for some of the countries only because we were generally staying in campsites that were isolated from the general population.

Qatar GDP (PPP) per capita — $ 124,930 Qatar ranks first on top richest country in the world list with the population of 2.27 million giving the total GDP of approx $ 124,930 per person.

Although only a paltry 1 percent of Turkey's power is currently provided by renewable sources, the country's sunny and strategic location, large surface area, and young population give it great potential as a «leading green power nation,» Levent Bas writes this week on business blog CleanTechies.

Of course, that is impossible to do immediately, and for the short term current carbon quotas must be largely based on a per capita measure, but over the longer term, that should change to a per hectare measure — which would give all countries significant incentive to reduce, and eventually reverse, their population growth.

It is a simple case of natural cycles not being able to provide the current water requirements given the population growth, and the high demands for crop irrigation to satisfy the countries produce.

«Strategies to maintain adequate diets need to focus on the most vulnerable countries and populations, and thought must be given to reducing vulnerability to nutrient deficiencies through supporting more diverse and nutritious diets, enriching the nutritional content of staple crops, and breeding crops less sensitive to these CO2 effects,» Dr Myers said.

Given the rate of China's economic growth and its large population, it's perhaps unsurprising that the country is responsible for an ever increasing share of global emissions.

Given their growing populations, industrializing countries like China and India are leading the development and deployment of advanced nuclear technologies.

People in the population growth lobby may well see the overwhelming of this country by millions of climate refugees as yet another business opportunity, particularly if they have investments in real estate, and not give a toss about the long term sustanability of this country.

Frankly, given that most of the other countries in the world (i) are either governed by their aboriginal populations, (ii) have succesfully killed them off or assimilated them into their broader population, or (iii) will just ignore anything the UN says anyhow, I'm not too inclined too give much weight to what they have to say on the issue.