Sentences with phrase «significant percentage of the population»

Some have claimed it to work well, and I have watched streams on Xbox Live, but for a pretty significant percentage of the population, it seems to not work.

We're already well down that path and recall that most large cities have on - hand food stocks for only a few days at most, so that significant percentage of the population engaged in pursuits other than food production is more vulnerable than you seem to think.

This has allowed the winners of this global reordering to simply look away from the very real pain of a significant percentage of the population.

I argued that this great national sport, which claims the devotion of a significant percentage of our population, mirrors in a ritual way some of the worst characteristics of our culture.

Does obsessive reporting not create a heightened sense of importance or urgency on an issue that is NOT shared by a significant percentage of the population?

Up until the latter half of the last century, their terrorist activities were undertaken with the tacit approval of a significant percentage of the population and sometimes with the explicit support of law enforcement agencies in the southern states.

The other common definition is narrower, and includes only those MTA - serviced regions where a significant percentage of the population uses the authority's trains to commute to jobs in Manhattan.

«HIV and AIDS still affect a significant percentage of our population.

This is a major cause of overeating for many people, and affects a significant percentage of the population.

A significant percentage of the population — adults and children — have below healthy magnesium levels.

A significant percentage of the population have below healthy magnesium levels, including many who already use magnesium.

But there is a significant percentage of the population that is not so lucky.

Students and alumni make up a significant percentage of the population.

While it seems fewer people than ever are willing to pay to meet people (given all the free options), there is still a significant percentage of the population who would rather invest in their love lives.

But if comparable outcomes are the only measure used to drive grade boundaries we would be by definition, consigning the nation as a whole to pass rates designed to discourage, to tell a significant percentage of the population, year after year, they are not good enough irrespective of what they've learned in absolute terms.

The civil rights movement was necessary because of the belief of a significant percentage of the population that black people were less «civilized», less intelligent, and less deserving than white people.

So, SLR is going to render mankind unable to produce food efficiently enough for a significant percentage of the population to be engaged in pursuits other than food production, completely lose the ability to read and write, and make the existence of towns and cities untenable?

John West @ 56: So, SLR is going to render mankind unable to produce food efficiently enough for a significant percentage of the population to be engaged in pursuits other than food production...

But the projections that suggest it is going to wipe out a significant percentage of the populations of various regions are dubious and already being revised downwards quite sharply in some African countries.

Originally posted on Playing the Devil's Advocate: The belief that human activities, especially of the type seen in industrial and post-industrial societies, are somehow responsible for «global climate change» previously known as «global warming» is an established article of faith among a significant percentage of the population in many countries.

To make matters worse, in many of those counties, public transportation and internet access are sparse, and a significant percentage of the population doesn't even have access to a vehicle.

Therefore, a significant percentage of the population is legally allowed to drive but doesn't for one reason or another.