Sentences with phrase «portion of the population does»

These folks aren't necessarily committing crimes, but this small but significant portion of the population does display some essential traits of psychopathy, like lack of empathy, selfishness, lack of guilt, and plenty of charm.

Despite countless findings to the contrary, a large portion of the population doesn't believe that scientists agree on the existence of human - caused climate change, which affects their willingness to seek a solution to the problem, according to a 2011 study in Nature Climate Change.

Research shows that a small portion of the population doesn't benefit from creatine supplementation, most likely because they already get enough from their diets.

Clearly, there are deeply rooted social, psychological, and cultural factors that explain why significant portions of the population don't see the apparently obvious connection between education and economic well - being.

Not exact matches

This means that a large portion of the global population do not have access to freely share and consume information through social media channels.

«I do think that a significant portion of the population of developed countries, and eventually all countries, will have AR experiences every day, almost like eating three meals a day, it will become that much a part of you,» Apple CEO Tim Cook said last month in Utah.

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.

However, every single country that has a significant portion of the population that is Muslim does have issues with them.

Just because a significant portion of the population is ignorant about science (and I mean that in the nicest possible way), doesn't mean they get to dictate what is involved in science.

Nye — a mechanical engineer and television personality best known for his program, «Bill Nye the Science Guy» — said the United States has great capital in scientific knowledge and «when you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in it, it holds everyone back.»

What does the Roman Catholic school do when non-Westerners constitute a substantial portion of its population?

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.

austin929 Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't a lot of Christians imagine Jesus leading a slaughter of a sizeable portion of the world's population, ending democratic rule everywhere, and basically conquering the earth when he returns?

Writing in The Times, Henrietta Royle, chief executive of the coaching and strategy consultancy firm Fanshaw Haldin, made the point that while most Conservatives have no difficulty with equality for gay people, «a significant chunk of the party's core supporters clearly doesn't think that has to include redefining the traditional concepts of marriage to suit a small portion of the population without so much as a by your leave».

What this does to the large portion of our population who have the resources to engage in the getting game is bad enough.

The conference suggested on a number of grounds the answer is «no» --(a significant portion of the world's charismatic population doesn't worship Jesus, or fall within «orthodoxy» i.e. deny the trinity etc.; the focus of charismatic worship is not Christ, but the «Holy Spirit» where this «Holy Spirit» may not even be biblical; the charismatic movement is «experiential» which posses no biblical authority, etc)

Nye - a mechanical engineer and television personality best known for his program, «Bill Nye the Science Guy» - said the United States has great capital in scientific knowledge and «when you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in it, it holds everyone back.»

«when you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in it, it holds everyone back.»»

Laws prohibiting physician - assisted suicide, he concludes, do «injury» to some citizens for no other reason than «to satisfy the moral or religious precepts of a portion of the population.»

AppleCheeks: Our goal is to be able to make cloth diapering attractive and accessible to the portion of the population that doesn't believe that cloth diapering and the modern lifestyle can co-exist.

Even if a large portion of the population thinks it's okay, that doesn't make it okay.

By contrast, successful entrepreneurs don't inspire the same low kind of universal distrust - yes, a large portion of population distrusts them, but even as a category, they have 2x amount of trust of Congress (20 %).

If it was reprehensible to a sizable portion of the population, these franchises wouldn't fare as well as they do.

Do you need to reach a highly - targeted portion of the voting population in your district?

It's hard to get people excited about staying the course, and the portion of the population that pushes approval ratings for gay marriage near 60 percent doesn't overlap much, if at all, with the upstate G.O.P. base.

«Only a small sliver of the population will be eligible for the End - of - Life Option Act, and of those eligible, only a portion are likely to utilize this option, and no one ethically opposed would likely do so,» the study said.

«Those who can reject vaccines without health risks are able to do so because they are protected by the large portion of the population who is vaccinated,» said Reich.

In some years, hurricanes may take out a small portion of the sooty tern population, but it doesn't appear to be enough to cause big declines.

However, nearly 45 % of the population in this study did not meet Canada's Food Guide recommendations of at least 2 portions of dairy products a day.

Although nuclear fission, photovoltaics, wind, and water now meet a small portion of the world population's energy needs, humans today get most of our energy the same way the cave people did: directly from the sun or from fire.

However, a significant portion of the population of extrasolar planets does not fit either of these criteria and there wasn't really a way to find information about the atmospheres of these planets.

These authors do not seem to understand the fact that the conversion of beta - carotene to vitamin A is dependent on many factors, including sufficient fat in the diet, and that the production of vitamin A from plant pre-cursors is difficult for a large portion of the population, including those with digestive and thyroid problems.

See, the thing is that, even though store - bought almond milk doesn't have the negative effects of cow's milk — the pro-inflammatory properties, antibiotics, lactose (which a large portion of the population is intolerant to, making it a common food allergen) and the calcium - leaching effects leading to bone loss — conventional almond milk still comes with it's setbacks:

But while feline fanatics do make up a significant portion of the population, it can often be difficult to find that special someone who equally shares your passion — most dating sites don't focus on that as a matching priority.

What Rudder's research doesn't cover is a rapidly expanding portion of the American population: individuals who identify as multiracial.

«Until those five big CMOs made the announcement of big plans for growth, serving a significant portion of the low - income population in Los Angeles, I didn't feel anybody was really paying attention to us,» said Marco Petruzzi, who oversees Green Dot Public Schools National.

I live in Fairfax Co. and I know a significant portion of the student population does not have access to computers at home.

What it does is it says, as a school, your challenge is to understand where your students are and then to figure out if you have a serious problem where you need to remediate large portions of your population, that's a serious challenge.

While sociologists have studied the effects on society of having a significant portion of the population unqualified and incapable of securing employment, companies like Cengage are actively working to do something about it.

I do not believe that trying to compare the Kindle Fire to the iPad is an apples - to - apples comparison (no pun intended); a perspective that a surprisingly large portion of the tech analysis and tech media population seem to not be considering.

There is a portion of the population out there that does not really go for cats and feeding can cause them to congregate in one spot.

That's the goal: to make sure that all pet parents have access to veterinary care, because we know that a large portion of the pet - owning population currently does not seek basic preventative care for their pet.

Mix that with a portion of the population that is either irresponsible about spaying their pets, or don't have the knowledge or opportunity for spay / neuter, and you end up with what we have: 6 animal shelters all full to capacity.

That rules out a large portion of the gaming population in China who either can't afford, or don't have the will to spend that much for just a few extra games, especially when there is so much choice on Mobile & PC.

Everyone from the previous game is absent (except for David Sarif who does fuck all) and the only major consequence that seems to have resulted from the Panchaea incident, where most of the augmented population of Earth was made to viciously attack the unaugmented portion, is that augmented citizens are treated like second - class citizens, forced to carry expensive paperwork, and are deported to a dystopian city known as Golem if they don't comply.

Unlike a lot of people, I didn't think it was the best Final Fantasy (that honor belongs to VI, no questions asked), I probably wouldn't be interested in playing through the rumored PS3 remake and I, unlike a huge portion of the gaming population, haven't carried a fanboy torch for Cloud, Aeris, Tifa, Barrett and the rest for going on ten years now.

Although this country provides some of the best care in the world to a portion of its population, adequate coverage doesn't reach everyone.

You can't propose code changes to suit the needs of portion of the population that says: I don't care about having handrails on my loft steps, climbing a vertical ladder to access my only «habitable space» or I don't mind occasionally banging my head on the ceiling when I try to get into or out of my bed.

But when a significant portion of the population is at last able to see itself reflected by someone who sits on the court, they are, perhaps, reassured that the court is a place where, even for them, justice does prevail.

I think it's the right time now because operators are now dealing with a stabilized, aging populations and if they don't provide Alzheimer's care in a dedicated portion of their properties they're going to lose the residents..