Sentences with phrase «thirds of the population believes»

Speechwriter David Frum, who authored the «axis of evil» speech, wrote that «in a country where almost two - thirds of the population believes in the devil, Bush was identifying Osama bin Laden and his gang as literally Satanic.»

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The vast majority also believed the abolition of notes and coins would cause problems to parts of the population, such as the elderly, while only a third saw it as a way to fight tax evasion and money laundering.

I will no longer be respectful of the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who seems to believe that rude behavior, intolerance and even killing prejudice is somehow acceptable, so long as it comes from third - world religious leaders, who more than anything else reveal in themselves the price that colonial oppression has required of the minds and hearts of so many of our world's population.

But most educated people believe that the gains to income from capitalism's triumph have been modest, that the poor have been left behind, that the Third World has been made miserable in aid of the enrichment of the First, that population growth must be controlled, that diminishing returns on the whole has been the main force in world economic history since 1800.

Gluten sensitivity or intolerance, once thought to be rare, is now believed to affect a third of the population.