Sentences with phrase «significant segments of the population»

The regime is carrying out violent measures against Islamists and youth — two major groups that can not afford to be alienated — signalling the regime's struggles to control a significant segment of the population via peaceful means.

The take - home message, he said, was that a significant segment of the population — just over 1 percent or 3.2 million Americans — are believed to suffer from some form of schizophrenia — are not benefiting from new scientific advances, lifestyle changes or health care improvements enjoyed by others.

Within the lifetime of a significant segment of the population, schools in the United States operated under the banner of «separate but equal» opportunity.

(15) provide for continuing statewide studies of the needs of handicapped individuals and how these needs may be most effectively met (including the State's needs for REHABILITATION facilities) with a view toward the relative need for services to significant segments of the population of handicapped individuals and the need for expansion of services to those individuals with the most severe handicaps;

It is all too convenient to blame social media; the actual problem is the small but significant segment of the population behind the nastiness, anger, aggression and refusal to grapple with reality.

Section IV discusses the incongruities between the concept of joint custody as advocated and the realities of a predominantly black community in which poverty defines the lives of a significant segment of the population.

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First, there is a segment of the Canadian population that does not know about the existence of the Trans - Pacific Partnership, though there is significant variation in the extent of awareness across surveys.

According to Quesada, his grandparents founded Ramar Foods to give the generations to follow something they could build upon, and as Asian - Americans become a larger and more significant segment of the United States population, the company's connection to Filipino culture and ongoing evolution becomes all the more important.

An organization that particularly serves the cultural needs of significant segments of the County population, thereby contributing to the quality of life in Buffalo and Erie County

Older people are at much higher risk of dying during extreme heat events.136, 50,241,233 Pre-existing health conditions also make older adults susceptible to cardiac and respiratory impacts of air pollution25 and to more severe consequences from infectious diseases; 257 limited mobility among older adults can also increase flood - related health risks.258 Limited resources and an already high burden of chronic health conditions, including heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, will place the poor at higher risk of health impacts from climate change than higher income groups.25, 50 Potential increases in food cost and limited availability of some foods will exacerbate current dietary inequalities and have significant health ramifications for the poorer segments of our population (Ch.

I'm no fan of measures that invade citizens» privacy, but the proposed regulation applies only to a very specific segment of the population, it offers a significant potential benefit to the general public, and we can hope, along with the privacy commissioner, that the CBSA will use the powers «very judiciously».

«By 2020 Hispanics in America will number 65.3 million with primary concentration in California, Texas, Florida, New York and Arizona... During the next 10 years, the quantity and variety of real estate opportunities focused on this major population segment will be significant.»

The industry has an opportunity to serve this growing, and significant, segment of the elder population, said Kramer.