Sentences with phrase «populations of other countries»

In this context love should set up a moral obstacle to any policy that assumes readiness to destroy the populations of other countries.

Americans are, compared with populations of other countries, particularly enthusiastic about the idea of meritocracy, a system that rewards merit (ability + effort) with success.

Not exact matches

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

In fact, the city has a bigger proportion of its population employed in the computer and electronics industry than any other city in the country.

In addition to showing the estimated total population change in those areas between July 1, 2016 and July 1, 2017, the Census Bureau also included a breakdown of the components of that change, including net international migration, or the number of immigrants from other countries moving into a county minus the number of people leaving that county for another country.

The biggest problem with respect to population growth for Halifax and Nova Scotia has been outmigration to other parts of the country.

Due to its large population, the large number of companies and its adoption of technology, the United States easily surpasses all other countries in terms of the amount of identities stolen.

China's size, population, and lack of regulations have made fake food an even more pervasive problem than in any other country.

While they can't quite compete with cities like New York and Chicago in terms of GDP or population, there are actually 300 + other metro areas in the country.

We now have the opportunity to organize crowdinvesting campaigns not only for residents of one country, but for the population of the whole world, regardless of their place of residence, jurisdiction, nationality, and other bureaucratic obstacles.

The evidence from other countries is that fintech can enable higher savings for low - income individuals, access to capital for cash - starved small businesses, and better access to all financial services for underserved segments of the population.

Germany has one of the fastest - ageing populations in the world, and the movement here has implications for other western countries, including Britain, particularly amid fears that austerity measures and rising care costs are potentially undermining standards of residential care.

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.

Even if only 5 % of the population CLAIM to be atheist, plenty of others are but wont» say because this country is so obsessed with Christianity.

In order to reduce the need for war and conflict, and to improve conditions in impoverished countries, the USA should be distributing unlimited volumes of the Koran / Quran (as well as the Bible and other popular texts)-- but all the books should be written or translated into the languages of the local population.

Then as now, the country was too small for the population, and the diaspora, or dispersion, of the Jews to other lands was caused by economic as well as political and military factors.

Rapid population growth is a pervasive fact of life in less - developed countries today — a form of social change so typical, and at the same time so profound, that it may spuriously be associated with almost any other social phenomenon of the present generation.

For good or ill, a greater portion of the U.S. population is religious than at any other time in the countries history, even the period of the «Great Revival» does not come close.

Iraq is a big land and has many bordering countries and a population of many Races, and many Religions and Faiths that were known or unknown beliefs... all of those lived in harmony during S - adam regime and every body was practicing his rights with out fear or with just a little fear But now having messed up the whole setup and the control of this mixed nation that were under a secular umbrella has cleverly for some ended it to be handed to Religious extremes at all sides of borders who are now fighting each other for taking control over the country or having it divided in to pieces.

My colleagues in Jordan, Iraq, and other parts of the Middle East are exhausted from responding to the escalating crisis, which since beginning in 2011 has displaced more than half of Syria's population, including more than 4 million who now reside as refugees in neighboring countries.

Talk about destroying the population centers of other countries springs from a combination of fatalism and callousness.

In his book Asia Rising, the economist Jim Rohwer points out that from 1970 to 1990 the number of desperately poor East Asians fell from 400 million to 180 million, even while the population of those countries was rising by 425 million — in other words, East Asia achieved a net rescue from poverty of almost 650 million people.

And although the population is largely indigenous Berber and part Arab, their foods are unlike those of any other Middle Eastern country.

While progress has been promising in some SAARC countries, such as India, large population segments in other countries have not been reached in terms of both food and health services.»

The winter songbird population of this region is probably richer than in any other section of the country, for south Texas is the base of the funnel down which the migrating flocks pour from east and west.

If you're part of the other 99.99 % of the country's population, you may not.

«First, this is relatively small regional sample from a population with which this group has done quite a bit of work, so these parents may be more knowledgeable about concussions than other parents across the country.»

In fact, I will let the motivated among you do a little research if you are curious — my state has the highest population use of Facebook than any other state in the country.

In other words, obstetricians are faced with a population that suffers poorer health than other developed countries, yet manage to save the lives of the babies under their care at a comparatively higher rate.

The combined population of more - developed countries other than the U.S. is projected to decline beginning in 2016, raising the prospect of prolonged budget crises as the number of working - age citizens diminish, pension costs rise and tax revenues fall.

These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.

Research in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other developed countries, among predominantly middle - class populations, provides strong evidence that human milk feeding decreases the incidence and / or severity of diarrhea,1 - 5 lower respiratory infection,6 - 9 otitis media,3,10 - 14bacteremia, 15,16 bacterial meningitis, 15,17 botulism, 18 urinary tract infection, 19 and necrotizing enterocolitis.20, 21 There are a number of studies that show a possible protective effect of human milk feeding against sudden infant death syndrome,22 - 24insulin - dependent diabetes mellitus,25 - 27 Crohn's disease, 28,29 ulcerative colitis, 29 lymphoma, 30,31 allergic diseases,32 - 34 and other chronic digestive diseases.35 - 37 Breastfeeding has also been related to possible enhancement of cognitive development.38, 39

As China rises, as India and other large population countries follow and with the USA already so powerful; so to maintain strength and influence, to defend our interests adequately, nations of our size will cooperate based on proximity.

Father Campbell made the remark on Tuesday when he visited the NHIA boss to commend the Authority for its interest in enrolling the needy and vulnerable populations of the country onto the Scheme, and to enlist the support of the NHIA in other humanitarian causes.

And the answer isn't: «Other developed countries have higher voter turnout» Except for an extremely small percentage of the population, those who want to vote, can.

Other countries imposed this right, but it's more tricky if the enfranchised part of the population have to vote to halve their influence.

Russia has annexed Crimea, and is making noises about regions of other countries, based on the premise that those regions have a majority population that is ethnic Russian.

Also affected are citizens of these countries who live in other countries (US and otherwise), who are therefore not included in these population figures.

Hundreds of delis, bodegas and small New York City businesses owned by Yemenis closed for the afternoon to protest the presidential executive order that temporarily restricts Yemenis, and people from six other countries with predominantly Muslim populations, from entering the country.

In the longer run, some countries — perhaps Singapore, maybe China — will start to promote cognitive enhancers to their own populations, and other countries may follow suit for fear of falling behind.»

The US population experiences poorer health at all stages of life than the populations of 16 other rich countries.

Venkatasubramanian's analysis found that the Scandinavian countries and, to a lesser extent, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Australia have managed, in practice, to get close to the ideal distribution for the bottom 99 % of the population, while the U.S. and U.K. remain less fair at the other extreme.

Now, with the touch of a special pen, the Atlasphere tells you the name of the country you're pointing to, its population, rainfall, and other statistics.

Even though evidence from other settings or populations would be useful to assess the generalizability of this study, Mogstad said it is highly relevant to policymakers in Norway and the United States, because disability insurance is now one of the largest transfer programs in most industrialized countries.

A growing population of elderly people with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia in China threatens to overwhelm the country's social support systems

America's apparently mediocre national averages on international tests reflect not uniformly poor performance, Eye argues, but rather the enormous diversity of our school population, which exceeds that of nearly every other competing country.

When implemented with other social and economic improvements, family planning is one of the most effective ways of managing increases in population growth and for delivering extensive health benefits, in both developed and poor countries.

On a per capita basis, Sweden has granted more refugee applications than any other high - income country, and in 2011, refugees constituted 12 % of the total immigrant population.

In many other countries, however, the CVD burden dwarfs that of cancer, and a large proportion of the populations will lose their lives prematurely to heart disease and stroke.»

The proportion of the U.S. population with health insurance was 90 %, lower than all the other countries, which ranged from 99 % -100 % coverage.