Sentences with phrase «portion of the population with»

I would argue that many people who are pro-choice are not big fans of the mandate, but they accept it as a better situation than having a significant portion of the population with no benefits (and no choice).

Not exact matches

Severe as these problems are, they tend to affect the affluent portions of the population, with access to healthcare and the incomes to afford it.

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

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.

When a large portion of the employee population has meaningful exposure to or interaction with customers, connectivity is enhanced.

With 314 million Americans, the number identifying themselves as Catholic would have to rise by three million to raise the percentage one percent, and that's three million among the portion of the population countable by surveys.

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

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.

At the outset of the century its population was descended chiefly from immigrants from Great Britain and North Ireland, with substantial minorities from the Protestant portions of Germany and the Netherlands and slight contingents of Huguenots and Swedes.

She is always heading off somewhere: striking out on British Army or scientific expeditions to remote portions of the Belizean jungles; roaring up the Western Highway to Belmopan, the capital city, where her opinions are solicited with frequency by government ministers (she is now an official — albeit unpaid — land and resources adviser); or careering into Belize City, the country's population center, for a high - society cocktail party.

«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.»

Surveys of public opinion indicate that Germans by and large are satisfied with their health care system (as opposed to the U.S. where a large portion of the population thinks that system needs substantial changes).

A tuition - free two - year college proposal, along with plans to match students with training for available jobs (which has been both an economic and educational priority for the Cuomo administration), could help Cuomo with the portion of the population Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton failed to carry, should he decide to run for president, Gyory said.

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.

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.

The Big Apple will have as many residents aged 65 and older as those of school age by 2030, with that portion of the population composing 15.5 percent of all residents, compared to 12 percent now.

This is the first study to link fruit and vegetable consumption with all - cause, cancer and heart disease deaths in a nationally - representative population, the first to quantify health benefits per - portion, and the first to identify the types of fruit and vegetable with the most benefit.

The SFFQ included questions on 116 food items and specified serving sizes that were described with the use of natural portions or standard weight and volume measures of servings commonly consumed in this study population.

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:

Getting help for a mental health disorder first involves removing the stigma and discrimination around mental health — depression, anxiety and other mood disorders are not signs of weakness, they are common conditions that a large portion of the population is dealing with daily.

For the portion of the overweight / obese population with insulin resistance and chronically - elevated insulin levels, this is a fairly accurate description of why low - carb diets work so well.

With much of Nottingham dominated by students, and a sizeable portion of the daytime population commuting home after work, it's common to feel like the options are sometimes sparse.

Smith is the star of the upcoming film Brilliance, based on Marcus Sakey's novel about a world where a small portion of the population is born with extraordinary abilities; these people are called «brilliants.»

With Season 2 about to premiere, now's a good time to catch up with the first season's 10 episodes, which follow the intertwined lives of the residents of a small New York town after a rapture - like event has caused a significant portion of its population to spontaneously, simultaneously disappWith Season 2 about to premiere, now's a good time to catch up with the first season's 10 episodes, which follow the intertwined lives of the residents of a small New York town after a rapture - like event has caused a significant portion of its population to spontaneously, simultaneously disappwith the first season's 10 episodes, which follow the intertwined lives of the residents of a small New York town after a rapture - like event has caused a significant portion of its population to spontaneously, simultaneously disappear.

In between the secret killings, population suppression and beatings inside the Gulag which The Death of Stalin shows in small snippets, Iannucci and co-writers David Schneider and Ian Martin, who adapted the story from a graphic novel by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin, counteract these inhuman actions with bumbling dialogue and scathing caricatures of life inside the guilded portion of the Iron Curtain.

Regression models with nationally representative data revealed that children from Mexican immigrant families were overrepresented in parental care and underrepresented in center - based care compared to their native peers from other race / ethnic populations, which helped to explain a significant but small portion of their generally lower rates of both math achievement and externalizing symptoms in kindergarten.

American can no longer afford economically, much less, morally, to have one out of every two black, Latino, and American Indian children struggling with literacy — especially when minorities make up the majority of enrollment in the southern and western states of the union (and large portions of school populations in the rest of the nation).

The marketing plan needed to target a politically active portion of the population who mostly lacked any real contact with — or direct knowledge of — the reality of our schools.

But for the state with the largest portion of its population under 18 years old, one metric should be of great concern: the disappearing single - income household.

After decades of consumer gluttony, a significant portion of the U.S. population became fed up with bloated vehicles that wasted gasoline, and in their mind, are the cause of many bad things.

We have some interesting generational dynamics with a huge portion of the population entering retirement.

With Republicans reluctant to raise tax rates on any portion of the population, and Democrats insisting on revenue increases to address the deficit, the mortgage interest deduction has found itself center stage during the fiscal cliff negotiations.

So what are the implications of a large portion of the population entering the labor force with elevated debt - to - income levels?

They enjoy some key advantages — younger / faster growing populations (with far lower entitlements), labour costs that are a fraction of developed market costs, control of a major portion of the world's natural resources, low / stable debt ratios, a 50 % share of world GDP, and GDP growth expected to be twice that of developed markets.

Add this to the fact that each year over the next twenty - five years, a growing portion of America's population will reach retirement age — with fewer resources for them to draw from — and you can see the potential problem we face.

With a large portion of the Chinese population being vigorously against these conditions and this tradition, will we see stricter animal protection laws or an end to the Yulin Festival in the future?

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.

Range The Townsend's big - eared bat occurs throughout the west and is distributed from the southern portion of British Columbia south along the Pacific coast to central Mexico and east into the Great Plains, with isolated populations occurring in the central and eastern United States.

From his basketball hoop sculptures Higher Goals, 1986, which commented on the limited opportunities available to young African Americans, to the arresting painting How ya like me Now, 1988, which depicts a young Reverend Jesse Jackson with white skin and blonde hair, Hammons has not shied away from topics which directly impacted his own life and which continue to be the everyday reality for a large portion of the American population.

Along with the Man Booker prize for fiction, the Turner Prize is one of the rare cultural events that a large portion of the British population seems to have an opinion about, and it provides annual fodder for dinner party conversations as well as tabloid ridicule.

At the time, the United States was still a heavily agricultural nation, with a much smaller portion of its population living in industrial cities such as New York City or Chicago.

Coupled with a major GPD drop, a major portion of the population was forced into growing food on spare land to survive.

Shift toward a drier climate, as is forecast for significant portions of the United States, including most of those with the highest rates of population growth, and PM risks will worsen.

It seems completely unreasonable to assume that some significant portion of the population on planet earth will be satisfied with lower resource use on a long term basis.

With a campaign tag line, CHANGE WE NEED, President - Elect Barack Obama and a large portion of the American population should have some rather meaningful New Year resolutions for 2009.

If 70 percent of the population communicates with mostly concrete language, and 30 percent prefers abstract language, recruiters could be missing out on a large portion of the population if their communication appeals to only one of end of the scale.

Rogers is located in the northwest portion of the state in the Fayetteville - Springdale - Rogers Metropolitan Area, which is one of the fastest growing areas in the nation and is ranked 109th in terms of population in the United States with 465,776 in 2010 according to the United States Census Bureau.