Sentences with phrase «significant urban population»

No modern nation with a significant urban population has attained prosperity without an industrial base capable of employing larger numbers of people and of manufacturing goods for domestic consumption and export.

Not exact matches

I would imagine in urban areas like Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, which have significant populations of recent immigrants, there's probably a significant subset of people who fled from countries where governments do all sorts of nasty things with the information they collect about their citizens and who aren't all that keen to provide such information here (you might say, «sure, but Canada's not Iran», to which the answer would be «exactly»).

Indeed, it was through chain migration, facilitated by kinship networks, that a significant population of Pakistanis ended up in urban centres in the UK in the first place.

«Compared to Hamilton's general adult population, we found elevated emergency room use, multiple barriers to health care access and significant rates of chronic disease among urban Aboriginal adults,» said Dr. Michelle Firestone, an associate scientist with St. Michael's Hospital's Centre for Research on Inner City Health.

While disease risk is lower in temperate regions where viral amplification can not build across years, there is significant potential for localized disease outbreaks in urban populations under certain conditions.

Seventy - five percent of the United States population is exposed to significant risks from earthquakes, and the majority of those risks are concentrated in urban areas.

By contrast, the insecticide - resistance markers display heterogeneous allelic distributions with significant differences detected between Central Ugandan (urban) populations relative to Eastern and Southwestern (rural) populations.

Australia has significant urban and rural student populations and struggles with balancing state and federal authority.

It illustrates the significant contribution of urban areas to climate change while at the same time highlighting the potentially devastating effects of climate change on urban populations.

The conference participants, which included a significant percentage of the country's architectural and urban planning heavyweights, also discussed issues such as transportation infrastructure in dense urban fabrics, population diversity in neighborhoods, open spaces and public buildings in cities, and the connection between high densities and tall buildings.

The dockets of the Ontario Court of Justice remain crowded and in some jurisdictions, particularly in large urban areas which have seen significant population growth, the time to trial has actually increased unacceptably.

As the deer populations grow and urban habitats continue to encroach upon rural environments, there has been an increase in deer - car collisions — over half a million a year, with a significant number of fatalities.