Sentences with phrase «portion of the population in»

According to the Red Cross, «emergency shelters and food support will be needed by a large portion of the population in both territories for weeks.»

Officials estimate that emergency shelters and food support will be needed by a large portion of the population in both territories for weeks.

for such an industrialized nation, a nation that likes to think it leads on ethics, a large portion of the population in the US is overly racist and h.omophobic.

The Variety Club (UK)[10], sponsors a great deal of activities for children, and it is largely due to the generosity of these organisations that the children of less fortunate families — and this still applies to a great portion of the population in the UK — will find support and assistance for the very tough challenge they need to face.

Not exact matches

In addition to the usual dangers of an expanding waistline and the next - day embarrassment of, ahem, excessive festivity, holiday party season presents special challenges to the more introverted portion of the population.

Like it or not, some portion of the population gets perverse satisfaction in seeing successful people and companies fail.

«Things that affect large portions of the [employee] population really affect small - and medium - sized businesses more than large businesses,» says Al Berman, executive director of DRII, The Institute for Continuity Management, a New York City - based organization that certifies businesses in contingency planning.

None of this puts us rapidly in the same category as admittedly countries with smaller area and even more population in the densest portions.

«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.

Moreover, they argue that federal subsidies are warranted because a significant portion of state and local government spending is for education, health, public welfare, and transportation, all of which have important spillovers that benefit the population in other jurisdictions as well.

Volatile portions of the diluent containing toxic fumes of benzene and toluene began off - gassing in the area, impacting the health of almost 60 per cent of the local population with symptoms such as nausea, dizziness, headaches, coughing and fatigue.

While the program has undergone many changes over the year, including raising loan limits, the FHA has been successful in making homeownership a reality for a greater portion of the population.

For most of the year, college students and professors make up a significant portion of La Jolla's population, but they're not the only ones who want to live in this idyllic location.

In other words, QE benefited the wealthiest portion of the population, which dominates stock - ownership, while the bottom - 90 % of the population increasingly has been forced to dig into their savings to help meet non-discretionary expenses, such as food, energy and housing.

We've transformed from cities where machines once hummed and large portions of the population worked for Kodak, Xerox, and Bethlehem Steel in Lackawanna, to cities where technology, medicine, packaging and software development are the drivers of our economy.

SLIM invests in companies that provide services and products to the portion of the population that is obese, ranging from biotechnology companies that address obesity - related diseases and health problems, to standard health care companies, to weight - loss - program and supplement providers.

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.

I'm not a scholar, butI consider myself to be a bit of an amateur historian, and I know of no evidence that shows any portion of the Jewish population in Judea in the 1st century was sub-Saharan in origin.

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.»

One of the regions thus directed represents the largest portion of the province s population and the greatest single program investment in terms of manpower and money.

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.

«More generally, how can the Church of England remain in any meaningful sense the national legally established church, when it caters for such a small portion of the population?»

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».

A large portion of Budapest's population consisted of families from the non «Hungarian provinces, and as a whole the country's folkways were so exotic, with traces of oriental ancestry (and its language being indisputably Asian), that in Europe Hungary was conventionally thought of as having one foot in the West and one foot in East.

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

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.»»

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But in both cases, this date falls right in the middle of the 2 week «Construction holidays», which typically a significant portion of the population uses to travel.

Within three months coyotes were «no more to be seen» (to quote an exuberant Fish and Wildlife report), and «in Rumerosa a considerable portion of the dog population was poisoned.

«I really think that the Park District Board could utilize someone who is in the trenches, certainly right there along with a large portion of the population that is utilizing the Park District programs.»

If we allow them to try more complex foods that «adults» eat, I believe that there will be a good portion of the under 18 population that actually will enjoy these kinds of foods, as are sometimes served in French schools.

Crowley's district includes a growing Latino population, particularly in the Bronx portion, and there has long been speculation that he could face a Latino challenger as the demographics of the district continue to change.

The Aedes aegyptimosquito that is the primary vector of Zika virus infections is present in the southeast portion of the country, including Florida, though in winter the mosquito populations are low.

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

you are also completely discounting a large portion of the city's population, who reside in the FOUR other boroughs (brooklyn, bronx, queens, staten island).

In both cases, the suburban additions were significantly more Democratic populations than the rural 31st was, leading to Democrats winning both portions of the divided territory and accusations of cracking - based gerrymandering.

Speaker Mark - Viverito called the meeting to announce her intention to keep the City Council in closer contact with the ethnic journalists, whose audiences account for a large portion of the city's population.

The portion of the jail population that has been diagnosed with some sort of mental health issue has ballooned in recent years, rising to nearly 40 percent of inmates.

When staggering portions of our population contribute to society and economy, continuing to disenfranchise them as Brexit solidifies leaves a gap in our political dynamic

«There is a significant portion of the population, again starting very young in age and in every stage of life where people experience either a temporary or more permanent loss in mental health and wellness.

Most of the population and customer base, however, is located in the southern portion of the county.

This group of small countries constitute roughly five percent of the global population.The member - states share the same challenges in terms of scarce resources, vulnerability to natural disasters, dependency on international trade, and small but growing populations in narrow and sometimes submerging portions of land.

The center's goal is to restore vision to some portion of the 65 million people worldwide — about 1 percent of the world population — considered to be legally blind, which the National Federation of the Blind defines as a central visual acuity of 20 / 200 or less in the stronger eye, even when aided by a corrective lens.

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.

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.

Select the «countries» button to view the portion of each nation's population that lives in cities.

The population is just so fragmented,» says Ken Nedimyer, an aquaculturist and former commercial fisherman among the first to begin cultivating corals in the Atlantic and is contributing a large portion of replanted colonies.