The team used novel statistical techniques coupled with data from death certificates and estimates of the population in each U.S. state to calculate life expectancies, even for some states with
small black populations.
Not exact matches
She lives in a state where
blacks make up a very
small percentage of the
population.
Although the New Deal Democracy is often seen as an economic coalition of the «have - nots» against the economic elite, FDR's alignment was also a classic example of ethnocultural politics, an alliance of southern evangelical Protestants, northern Catholics and Jews,
black Protestants, and the
small secular
population.
In a country with an educated white
population of over four million, with a middle class mixed race group of about two million, and the largest
black middle class in Africa (admittedly a
small part of the total
black populace), the largest single print run is under half a million, for the weekly Sunday Times.
A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the
small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the
black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the
population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.
The report, dubbed «
Smaller, Safer, Fairer: A roadmap to closing Rikers Island,» lays out a plan to first reduce the current inmate
population and then shutter the facility on the island between Queens and the Bronx that has been called a «
black hole for human rights.»
Compared with census figures from the 1990s, the numbers of Hispanic and Asian New Yorkers grew more slowly;
blacks recorded their first
population loss since the Civil War; and non-Hispanic whites, who registered their
smallest population loss in decades, also logged the biggest gains of any group among young children.
With habitat fragmentation, the wall could cut off ocelot, as well as
black bear,
populations in Texas and Mexico from other members of their species, leaving some
populations too
small to persist.
«What's even more interesting», adds Daniele Gaggero, first author of the publication, «is that with more sensitive future radio and X-ray telescopes, our proposed search strategy may allow us to discover a
population of primordial
black holes in our galaxy, even if their contribution to the dark matter is
small.»
The scientists have resolved a dispute over whether a
small population of
black - headed squirrel monkeys (Saimiri vanzolinii), which are found only in an isolated part of Brazil, is a sub-species of another species or its own species.
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Slightly more than 24 % of Boston's
population is made up of
black men and women, and the percentage of those who are single is even
smaller.
The rest comes from a
population of other,
smaller black holes clustered in the region.
Denver had a
small, tight - knit
black community that comprised 11 percent of the
population.
Family Portrait in
Black and White / Canada, Ukraine (Director: Julia Ivanova)-- In a small Ukrainian town, Olga Nenya, raises 16 black orphans amidst a population of Slavic blue - eyed blo
Black and White / Canada, Ukraine (Director: Julia Ivanova)-- In a
small Ukrainian town, Olga Nenya, raises 16
black orphans amidst a population of Slavic blue - eyed blo
black orphans amidst a
population of Slavic blue - eyed blondes.
In addition, the two lowest - achieving of those sub-groups (
black and Hispanic students) have come to represent a larger portion of the total student
population, while the highest - achieving of those three sub-groups (white students) has come to represent a
smaller portion of the total student
population.
On cross examination, plaintiffs» attorney Marcellus McRae tried to chip away at the heft of Fraisse's testimony by having the witness concede that the districts he led were relatively
small with few schools and had student
populations that were largely white, with much
smaller percentages of
blacks and African Americans.
While
black and brown students make up a
smaller fraction of the total student
population, they account for a large majority of the students being suspended and expelled.
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The visible minority
population was relatively
small — four per cent of the total
population — with
black, Arab and Chinese people making up the three largest communities within this group.
And Mary
Black of Baton Rouge cited a 2008 report from the Center for American Progress, which said that
small business owners and employees make up «the largest share of the uninsured
population» - 27 million of the 47 million Americans without health insurance.