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Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

We've had hurricanes in Florida forever. And the question is, 'What do we do about the fact that we have built expensive structures, real estate and population centers, near those vulnerable areas?'

The potential is huge, considering that 55% of the U.S. population subscribes to a mobile phone.

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant. You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant, ... You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

We studied different countries around the world that are representative of different situations and took a look at where they'd end up. One thing that happens right away, which nobody seems to have thought of, is that the total global population increases dramatically. From an original projection of 8 billion we end up topping out at 10 to 11 billion. In many countries, this would have an enormous, and not necessarily positive, impact. For example, the idea that China would go from 1.5 to 1.8 billion, just because of this, is a bit frightening.

We believe that more than half of the Iraqi population have someone who is missing in their family,

We strongly condemn the rebel group ... for endangering the civilian population and ... making it difficult, if not impossible, for aid workers.

We're in bigger markets now than when we first started, but the right ownership group and the right venue are more important than population size. The NBA hasn't put a timetable on going to 30 (development league) teams yet. We're always on the lookout for markets that make sense and we try to fish out and see if there are any interested groups.

where the population was predominantly white, where FEMA got cracking in a hurry.

When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.

There is no population in there. It's deserted.

We're making progress, but we'd still like to see the population get lower. The problem we've been fighting is that they've had two straight years of good reproduction. So it's kind of like taking two steps forward and one back. But we think if we stay with the program we have in place, we'll eventually get there.

We're going to survey the hotels and motels in town. There's a real nice shelter at Family Faith Church, ... and we're going to solicit the hotels and see what comes out of it. The hotel population right now is still between 500 and 600.

We're going to see this population change from being care receivers to caregivers, ... I think that's inevitable.

What they're trying to do is to create the opportunity for them to be able to develop their land without them having to worry about someone challenging the development based upon the sprawl or the population projection rules, and those are two key concepts that the state Department of Community Affairs and counties use to determine whether a development is appropriate.

When we do a gather to control populations, we remove down to the low end and allow it to build up over a period of three to four years, ... We allow them to have an increase over a period of time then take the population down to the low end of the range.

When we compare that to Fulton County, there?s been an estimated that the population has declined by two-tenths of one percent.

When we got our students back, the population of New Orleans increased by 10 to 20 percent. A lot of businesses pegged their openings to the return of our students. We expect the students to be a big part of rebuilding.

When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter.

We are getting the population where we need a hospital. We have a large adult community and a lot of families.

World Health Organisation estimates suggest we prepare for a situation where one quarter of our population is infected,

With their population base and the methods they use to funnel athletes into programs, they are very close to where the Cubans, East Germans and Eastern Europeans used to be.

The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel (all evidence suggests true sadists are an extremely small proportion of the population overall), but how we have come to create institutions that encourage such behavior and that suggest cruel people are in some ways admirable-or at least as deserving of sympathy as those they push around.

If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too well, and we don't have any other instruction.

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.

Wounds that fail to heal are a hidden epidemic as our population ages and people become vulnerable to diabetes, vascular disease and many of the other conditions that lead to chronic wounds.

We're seeing reduced price appreciation in the Pacific Northwest, and Alaska although population growth and job growth there remain strong.

We have no intention of taking any measures that would harm the population of Belarus if a decision is taken to undertake further restrictive measures. Those measures would be targeted on those who are deemed to be responsible for elections which have been judged not to be free and fair.

About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said 'The higher you go, the fewer women there are.'

I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

Every election, roughly half the population votes Democrat and the other half votes Republican. Now, I understand why the Republicans get one percent of the vote - the richest one percent.That other percent, someone will have to explain to me.

A huge Chinese population here in... Houston.

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.

We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to imagine. Let us not, in the heat of anger, reduce the already devastated population of great white sharks by one more member.

We are already learning new things about the Saturn system. We will fly by Phoebe on June 11th and that's a very interesting moon. We presume that it's a captured object. We don't know what population it represents. Is it an asteroid? Is it a Kuiper Belt Object?

Women represent the fastest-growing Internet population and a television audience that remains underserved. The new network will provide a destination exclusively for smart, active women seeking relevant content and community.

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary.

We must limit to a reasonable amount the Jewish influence...Whenever the Jewish percentage of total population becomes too high, a reaction seems to invariably occur. It is too bad because a few Jews of the right type are, I believe, an asset to any country.

What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

I happen to believe that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. It’s whatever God made you. It happens that I’m heterosexual, but I don’t care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don’t have the ability to protect their rights.

As the pressure of population increasingly regiments us and crowds us closer together, an association with the wild, winged freedom of the birds will fill an ever growing need in our lives.

If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account.

Because of rampant inflation, living standards have been dropping for the great majority of the population. The people are poorer because standards of health and education have fallen. And conditions in the rural areas are worse off than they have ever been. So, you cannot equate the so-called open-market economy adopted by the SLORC with any real development that benefits people.

It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.

But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.

There is a significant amount of jobs and population in Hamilton County as a result of that agreement.

There is a segment of the consumer population that wants the convenience of transferring and printing images directly from the camera, without the cable, and it eventually will gain popularity. But first they have to buy the equipment necessary to do that.

There are no alternatives to manage the bear population next to a hunt.

There are more opportunities today than ever for Ohioans to observe bald eagles in the wild as the population of these magnificent birds continues to expand throughout the state.

There are some initial studies that have shown some changes in the behavior of the dolphins. We're very concerned about the impact that these programs are having both on the individual dolphins themselves and on the dolphin population as a whole.

We really don't know what population effects have in terms of water quality trends.

We're absolutely thrilled. What we really need is jobs. They were asking a neighborhood already inundated with social services to become a magnet for the entire (regional) population that needs help. When is enough enough?

We're at an extremely dangerous situation where home heating bills could be shockingly high this winter, ... This is very bad news especially in the northeast part of the country, where the population represents a pretty big chunk of national retail sales.

We're at a critical juncture. I'd venture to say there are crises at every turn. The biggest we have is the nursing and departure at a time when the patient population is increasing. We push our nurses to the limit.

We hope to rebuild the fishery. We want to see a sustainable population of fish.

We hope to prevent the devastating effects of this disease by treating the young early. While peregrines have made a comeback from the brink of extinction nationwide, there is still a need to protect their nest sites and encourage population growth in Georgia.

We hope to follow the DPP population to learn how long the interventions are effective.

We did pretty well. I think the fact that we reduced the number of students retained while our population increased is significant.

We didn't try to create the wheel. We had everybody focused on what they could already. Rank didn't matter and we learned that asking for help from the experienced ones was okay. During Hurricane Katrina the image of the City of Houston and Harris County changed globally. That's amazing because of people like you - the citizens. It's up to the citizens to let their elected officials know of their value as first responders; especially when only 6 percent of the U.S. population is certified first responders.

We have run a number of campaigns in the past and have worked on a number of war issues, but there's virtually nothing going on on this campus in terms of human rights. This is a timely opportunity to work on a global and local level. There is a big refugee population here in the Syracuse area.

The reality is that for almost two years now the stakeholders in the criminal justice process have done a very good job. We haven't had population concerns.

There is definitely a certain proportion of this population for whom the only way to deal with humiliation - the only way to regain respect - is through violence. This is a place where many people don't look for ways to resolve a dispute. They take all matters to the very bitter end.

The population of (Maine) is such that there are not a whole lot of kids out there to begin with. Timing is the key thing. We're fortunate that we have some real elite ones here now. Both Greg and Derek have had fabulous careers.

The population is rising, the housing demand is steady and the dispersion of jobs increase traffic on the roads.

The population is increasing out here but it will have an effect on traffic that would normally come through here.

The population is healthy, but it's not like we've got a lot of them.

The population is growing, the unemployment rate is dropping. It's a combination of those two factors.

The population is growing and there could still be impacts from the hurricanes last year,

The population has grown weary of a transitional government that is more concerned with personal enrichment than lifting them out of misery, and they are counting on the ballot box to improve their lot. If the elections go awry, they will turn once again to violence.

The population growth in Manatee County the past two years has been outstanding. Another center would attract new bowlers. Right now, you have bowlers in Bradenton who always go to (AMF Bradenton Lanes), but you have bowlers who live in Lakewood Ranch who normally don't come to Bradenton.

The population drives the other services in the jail. It just overtaxes the whole system. It overtaxes the medical services. It overtaxes things as simple as getting people out to see the daylight a time or two the week.

The population at large, I think, has a greater expectation of quality.

The population and business growth in northern Virginia means a great opportunity is rapidly getting even better. As the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area continues to expand, the need to serve our Customers in northern Virginia becomes more urgent.

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve the population's titillation of the moment.

We have a segment of the student population who have really responded very positively. They come and they've really done a nice job. But they represent still too small a number of the total segment of students that we need. We just need to have more numbers.

We have a real stigma with mental health issues, with asking for help if we're getting depressed. That's true of the general population period, and it may be more true of someone who does farming.

We have a pot of money that is going to have to be spread over a larger population at a time when prices are soaring,

Before that I was a scientist. I did research in population biology. And that's what I always go back to, it helps me to remember that people are not the end of the world, although we may be when it comes to it. We're just one species among millions in this world.

We are targeting the adolescent male population through the music fraternity, and also through sports, in an effort to instil positive messages through creative communication strategies.

This probably has to do with the aging of the population and more people confronting these situations. The poll found that people who have participated in decisions about end-of-life or had loved ones with illnesses in the last five years are much more likely to have thought about end-of-life treatments or to have living wills.

The provocation ended up being even more substantial because the thing was actually passed. What that showed is that immigration can be a mobilizing issue for Hispanic voters in a negative sense, that they will respond to a perception that the entire population is being demonized, or that the measures are excessively harsh.

The program has been successful in eliminating raccoon rabies from the St. Lawrence River Valley. So far this year the health department has confirmed two rabid bats and one rabid raccoon in Oswego County. An immunized raccoon population will decrease rabies exposure to people and domestic animals.

Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1% lie about it.

Whenever you see a guy by the interstate ramp with a sign, that guy is the tip of the iceberg. There's another population you don't see.

At a time when 20% of people in the US go to bed hungry each night and almost 50% of the world's population is malnourished, choosing to eat more plant-based foods and less red meat is better for all of us-ourselves, our loved ones, and our planet.

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.

You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified