Sentences with phrase «substantial populations of»

Each educator I observed had previously led a high - performing or rapidly improving school serving substantial populations of students of color and students living in poverty.

The new system affords far greater local control and guarantees that districts with substantial populations of disadvantaged kids receive more state money — lots more.

Karin Chenoweth: I was hired by the Achievement Alliance to identify and describe schools that have substantial populations of children of color and children of poverty that are high achieving or rapidly improving.

However, a developer or group of developers could potentially propose a modification to the Bitcoin Network that is not accepted by a vast majority of miners and users, but that is nonetheless accepted by a substantial population of participants in the Bitcoin Network.

The New York County GOP has long eyed the Upper East Side, one of the few parts of the borough with a substantial population of Republicans, as the ideal place to finally install of their own in elected office.

A substantial population of feral dromedaries, descended from pack animals that escaped in the 19th and early 20th centuries, thrives in the Australian interior today.

Reduced stocking of Chinook salmon, however, would still support a substantial population of this highly desirable recreational salmon species, which is a large contributor to the Great Lakes multi-billion-dollar recreational fishery.

All three programs support research training for educational institutions with a substantial population of underrepresented minority students, and their Web pages each contain a policy statement, supplemental instructions, frequently asked questions, and a list of participating institutions.

However, there are very few Illustris galaxies that were unanimously labeled as exhibiting visible features and a substantial population of visibly smooth galaxies is also present.

Over the previous decade, the school had shifted from a primarily white middle - class school to one with a substantial population of the children of Spanish - speaking immigrants; many of these parents were low - income workers.

They stayed in Prague for five months, leaving as the city was unable to handle its already substantial population of German refugees.

As I report for The Times on Tuesday, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Bonobo Conservation Initiative (supplied in part with some some conservation money from the United States government) are establishing an 11,803 - square - mile preserve that is aimed at protecting a substantial population of the apes, along with other rare wildlife.

In spite of the lack of a comprehensive study in Canada to determine: (1) the full range of apps available; (2) what they purport to do; and, (3) whether they can actually improve access to justice, there is a substantial population of law society, commercial, academic, and independent, keen advocates of apps as being the way to the solution to the problem, including displacing some lawyers.

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Frieden said aerial spraying continues to be successful in the Wynwood neighborhood, where experts have seen «substantial but not complete knockdowns of mosquito populations.

That is happening amid an overall aging of the population «shows substantial number of people are being attracted into the labor market,» Yellen said during a press conference following the Fed's September meeting.

Although expectancy research has focused on U.S. populations, there are substantial cultural differences in the effects drinkers expect / experience, extending even to symptoms of alcohol dependence (Room et al., 1996).

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We increase the number of homeless shelters and food pantries, restore the welfare entitlement, build more prison cells, and write off a substantial part of the population as permanently incapable of citizenship.

What does the Roman Catholic school do when non-Westerners constitute a substantial portion of its population?

The flourishing of human life and cultures is compatible with a substantial decrease of the human population.

But occasionally, you get individuals with defects (such as sociopaths), who act completely for their own good, do substantial harm to the community, and are eventually neutralized by the rest of the population.

China became the only nation in the world with the goal of not only ending population growth as soon as possible but also of reducing its population by a substantial amount.

Not even Communism was to master so substantial a percentage of the earth's surface in which Christians were a majority of the population.

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.

Protestant missionaries came from almost all countries where Protestants were a substantial proportion of the population — Germany, the Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the British Isles, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Today, as people like Richard Posner delude themselves into imagining themselves heroically overturning discrimination, gay and lesbian representation in elite institutions is substantial and probably in excess of their proportion of the overall population.

There seems to be no evidence of a substantial rise in the rate of alcoholism 23 either among drinkers or in the total adult population since 1948.

Diets that incorporate increased consumption of resistant starch from high - amylose corn can have a substantial positive health impact on the American population,» adds Lorraine Niba, PhD, global director, nutrition at Ingredion.

With estimates that 70 - 75 % of the world's population may be lactose intolerant and with total milk, yogurt and cheese consumption at over 200 million tonnes in 2011, lactose free dairy products represent a substantial opportunity for dairy manufacturers.

Even with small reformulations — to decrease levels of salt in certain products, for instance — the impact on population health can be substantial.

«A substantial proportion of our population has experienced these injuries,» Gioia says.

With a substantial majority — many states such as Zamfara, the first to attempt to enact Sharia in 1999, have populations that are well over 95 % Muslim — and a theological obligation to submit to Islamic law, Northerners resent federal intrusion, which they say amounts to the abrogation of their constitutional right to religious freedom.

But, like Mrs Thatcher, he was loathed and detested by a substantial proportion of the French population.

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 substantial part of the Colombian population demonstrated with their votes that they are ready to join this «Pact of Reconciliation,» as some voices suggest it may be re-labeled.

The 23rd CD has a substantial number of Asians, though the percentage of Asian voters is substantially lower than their share of the overall population.

But, only about 2 % of the population of the United States is employed in farming, and even if you have a substantial multiplier for people who economically benefit when farmers are doing well, this is still only a modest share of the rural population in the United States.

Supporters of fees argue that it is unfair on the majority of the population who have not received the benefits of HE - which are statistically agreed to be fairly substantial in terms of average salaries - to bear the full burden of the costs.

Many Westminster analysts believe the foreign secretary was sacked after he invited then - US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice to his Blackburn constituency, where she saw the substantial Muslim population there and raised questions about the pressures he would be under.

WHEREAS, Erie County plays a substantial role in the lives of our aging population through investing in our transportation services, expanding our dining programs and ensuring protection through our adult protective services program;

They also form the substantial autochthonous populations of Edo, Delta, Kogi and Niger States.

Pierina Ana Sanchez, a former City Council staffer and White House intern who now works at the Regional Plan Association, noted some of the substantial gains the Bronx has achieved in terms of population and economic growth.

The study also shows that dispersing males connect the enigmatic brown bear population of the Alaskan ABC - islands to the North American mainland, and that the resulting movement of genes is substantial enough to maintain high genetic variability within this island population.

«With one - quarter of older Mexican - American immigrants and 30 percent of Mexican - Americans born in the United States reporting substantial physical limitations, there is a clear need for providing all Mexican - American older adults with appropriate health care, particularly in light of the rapid growth of this population» says co-author Amani Nuru - Jeter, Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.

We have been potentially over-treating a substantial proportion of the population.»

Almost always, Reich says, «the idea that the ancestors of any one population have lived in the same place for tens of thousands of years with no substantial immigration is wrong.»

«Across all countries a substantial number of people who inject drugs are living with HIV or HCV and are exposed to multiple adverse risk environments that increase health harms,» says UNSW's Professor Louisa Degenhardt, lead author of the paper reviewing prevalence of injecting drug use and HIV and Hepatitis in this population.

The genetic contribution of each of these ancestral populations is substantial,» adds study co-lead author Arjun Biddanda of Cornell.

This university is located in a city with a substantial Chicano population, and as is typical of most universities, there was almost no Chicano presence among the faculty in the MSE departments.

However, they had to carefully time the shutdown so that the cell population would be large enough to produce a substantial amount of glucaric acid.