Sentences with phrase «population of the north»

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.

In 2015 nearly a third of the population of North America didn't set foot in a theater; another 10 % went only once.

«The ruling class cleverly enslaved and impoverished ethnic populations of the North by keeping vital information and knowledge away from them.

'' All the hitherto hidden history of the conquest of indigenous Hausa speaking populations of the North will be laid bare for the world to know.

The poor Muslim population of the north has never been on anyone's radar screen, others add, and the government was silent until the crisis could no longer be ignored.

This mitochondrial genome corresponds to the now disappeared U6 basal lineage, and it is from this lineage that the U6 lineages, now existing mainly in the populations of the north of Africa, descend from.

Did you know that 25 % of the population of North America live alone in both the rural and urban environment - without the company of another human being?

For example, Peter Wolf, an influential trap - neuter - release advocate, took the study to task, pointing out that its estimate of birds killed by cats represented an «astonishing» 28.5 to 75.5 percent of the breeding population of North American land birds.

As of 2010, the population of North Conway was only 2,349 people.

His images appear similar to those of indigenous populations of North America and the Ancient Near East.

Over the weekend, the population of North Adams swelled by more than 7,000 as people packed hotels and pitched tents, in town for return of the Solid Sound Festival.

His symbols reflect those of indigenous populations of North America and the Ancient Near East.

In fact we can quite easily blame ongoing desiccation for the downfall of Islamic civilization and the rise of Christianity — the population of North Africa dwindled to nearly nothing, cutting off the Maghrib from Baghdad, leaving great cities like Timbuctu as minor outposts, and leaving cities like Sabratha empty.

And in fact, if you were to tally a census of notable Greek thinkers you would find that more came from Africa and the Middle East than from Europe or Anatolia, and there's a simple reason for this: the population of North Africa at the time was greater than the population of Europe.

I think you're missing the reason this is getting buzz outside of the climate science community, namely the extinctions and / or the impact of such an event on the Paleoindian population of North America.

Put another way, a population difference of 4 billion — the result of either staying complacent or working hard to share family planning tools and information around the globe — is equal to the combined populations of North America, South America, Oceania, Europe, Africa and India.

Montgomery County Public Schools enrolls 349 % of the population of North Bethesda.

Although there is no proven relationship with the aging population of North American homes and the development of molds, many older homes, particularly those built with wood, may have structural and maintenance issues that could contribute to the problem.

We will have room for a cabinet like yours in the kitchen of our newly purchased retirement home (believe it or not we will be upsizing as opposed to the rest of the aging downsizing population of North America!!).

Not exact matches

The US already lives with a nuclear - armed North Korea that can level Seoul, South Korea's capital and home to metro - area population of 25 million civilians.

As the world's population explodes and resources dwindle, dozens of recently launched North American startups are betting that edible insects will be part of the future of food.

«Although it has acted swiftly on the latest UN sanctions, China is unlikely to go so far as to fully implement new sanctions that, in its judgment, would risk substantially undermining the economic well - being or social stability not just of North Korea, but also of the Chinese population near the North Korean border, which relies heavily on such trade,» she said.

Yes, North Korea frequently uses surprise as a tactic, and it is well - practiced at striking fear into the hearts of Western populations.

Life expectancy at birth Infant mortality rate (figures for Korea and New Zealand were taken from the CIA World Factbook, 2005 data) % of population over age 15 considered obese and overweight Prison population rate Motor vehicles per 1,000 people Road fatalities per million people Road fatalities per million vehicles (figures for Mexico taken from the North American Transportation Statistics Database)

Florida, a state whose population has boomed under an influx of retirees, many of them from the north, was excluded.

Charles Sizemore, the Dallas - based author of the Sizemore Investment Letter, says that as Asian populations acquire middle - class, North American tastes, they're starting to buy more expensive cigarette and alcohol brands.

The shutdown affected diverse countries from all over the continent: whether they had small populations like Gabon or big ones like Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo; whether in the south of the continent like Zimbabwe, in the north in Algeria, across the east in Burundi and Uganda, and in the west like the shutdown preceding the elections in The Gambia.

Toronto is Canada's largest city, the fourth - largest city in North America and home to a diverse population of about 2.8 million people.

The region is centered in the middle of the U.S., at the cross-section of international air, rail, interstate and major rivers; within 500 miles of one - third of the U.S. population and 1,500 miles of 90 percent of the people in North America.

The area, about 30 miles north of Salt Lake City, has a population of 5,500 active duty airmen on base.

(Vancouver, population about 2 million, and 85 km or 50 miles north of Bellingham, dwarfs the US border city, which has a population of about 80,000 today.)

In North America, 82 per cent of the population lives in urban areas.

China's growing importance reflects the fact that it is second only to North America in terms of its billionaire population, and the number of high net worth individuals in China is forecast to rise 137 % over the coming decade, according to Knight Frank's The Wealth Report.

Today the population hovers just north of 319 million and, as of 2013, the number of registered vehicles has more than doubled to 255 million.

Close to 75 % of our population lives within 100 miles of the U.S. border, and internationally we are seen as North Americans — but not Americans, a subtle difference that often works in our favour.

«Asia - Pacific is expected to continue to lead global growth and pass North America as the region with the highest HNWI population by the end of 2014 and the greatest HNWI wealth by 2015.»

«Matching Asian people in North America is still our main product, but 60 percent of the world's population is in Asia so in order for us to become a much bigger company and help more people find their life partner, it makes sense to enter Asia,» Tokioka explained to TechCrunch.

«Up until recently, the majority of fundraising opportunities in North America were limited to the wealthiest 3 percent of the population — this includes both startup owners looking to grow their business as well as investors interested in pursuing progressive new financial opportunities.»

While Christianity has declined in Europe and has only held its own (at best) in North America, it has been growing at many times the rate of population in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Nonetheless, out of a population this large, the number of Muslim Americans who either perpetrated or were arrested for terrorist crimes in 2010 was... 20, according to the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (a consortium of Duke University, the University of North Carolina and RTI International, a think tank).

Caucasian race (also Caucasoid) is the general physical type of some or all of the populations of Europe, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western, Central and South Asia.

1 Background 2 Paternal lineage, Y chromosome 2.1 Y - DNA of Ashkenazi Jews 2.2 Y - DNA of Sephardi Jews 2.2.1 Y - DNA of Jews from North Africa 2.2.2 Y - DNA of Portuguese Jews 2.2.3 Y - DNA of Oriental Jews 2.2.4 Y - DNA of Roman Jews 2.3 Y - DNA of Kurdish Jews 2.4 Y - DNA of the Jews of Yemen 2.5 Y - DNA of Mountain Jews 2.6 Y - DNA of Jews from Ethiopia 2.7 Y - DNA of Bene Israel 2.8 Priestly Families 2.8.1 Cohanim 2.8.2 Levites 3 Maternal line: Mitochondrial DNA 3.1 Mt - DNA of Ashkenazi Jews 3.2 Mt - DNA of Jews from North Africa 3.3 Mt - DNA of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula 3.4 Mt - DNA of Jews from Iraq 3.5 Mt - DNA of Jews from Libya 3.6 Mt - DNA of Jews from Tunisia 3.7 Mt - DNA of Jews from Ethiopia 3.8 Mt - DNA of the Jews of Turkey 3.9 Mt - DNA of the Jews of Georgia 3.10 Mt - DNA of Jews from Yemen 3.11 Mt - DNA of Bukharan and Persian Jews 3.12 Mt - DNA of Moroccan Jews 3.13 Mt - DNA of Cochin Jews and of Bene Israel Indian subcontinent 4 Autosomal DNA 5 Comparison with the genetic heritage of non-Jewish populations 5.1 Palestinians 5.2 The Samaritans 5.3 The Lembas 5.4 Inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula

After almost ten years of North American maneuvering, the U.N. Committee on Decolonization declared the island a colonial territory (over the protest of the U.S. and most of the island's population — who argued that in 1953, when Puerto Rico became a so - called «commonwealth» as a result of a popular election, it ceased to be a colony and became instead a «free associated state»).

With over six percent of the world's population, the world's Buddhist population now includes approximately fourteen thousand people in Africa, five hundred thousand in Latin America, seventeen thousand in Oceania, three hundred fifty thousand in the Soviet Union, two hundred thousand in Europe, and two hundred thousand in North America, as well as several hundred million in South and East Asia (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1987).3

(The Vancouver - based ecologist William Rees points out that to support the world's present population at North American consumption levels «would require the equivalent of two more planet Earths.»

Formed toward the end of the 1950s, two of these groups remain active today: the FARC (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces), which draws its primary strength from campesinos in the south, and the ELN (Army of National Liberation), whose strength is greater in the north among oil workers, indigenous groups defending their habitat against encroachment by the oil industry, and the Afro - Colombian population.

Unemployment leads to internal and external migration of labour and populations: as migrant workers, settlers, refugees; now mainly from the South to the North.

Many from the global South oppose the concern of the North about population on the grounds that it is the over consumption of the North rather than increasing population in the South that is the chief cause of global environmental deterioration.

Most American atheists ignore North Korea even though most of the population are atheists with very few religions allowed.

I am very excited, for example, by the estimate that in 1987 there will be a statistical balance of Christian population between the north (Europe, Soviet Union and America) and the south (Latin America, Africa, Asia and Oceania).