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Only about 10 percent of India's population uses the web, making it unlikely that Internet freedom will be a decisive ballot-box issue anytime soon.
On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.
Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace associations. This is a matter of educating the population in general, and not least the voters.
We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.
In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different ways.
When a species wants to tap the collective intelligence of a population, they don't take a poll; they don't take a vote. They form a real-time system.
We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption.
I am keen to serve one-sixth of the world's population where the miracles of science and technology would multiply manifold for betterment of mankind.
[Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't be shown again.
As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.
Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric.
Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.
I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.
I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.
Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.
There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.
I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves.
The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.
It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an international phenomenon.
I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance.
In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.
I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American population.
Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.
Protecting children at risk of exploitation will always be a priority, and at the other end, safeguarding an ageing population brings its own challenges.
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts of protection.
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.
But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.
Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.
Unlike the U.S., Iran has no problems with low-voter turnout in elections; the last time, the government got the support of 110 per cent of the population.
The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.
Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues.
It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.
I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.
The trust of the mass population can no longer be taken for granted, and any continuation of the 'grand illusion' is dangerous for leaders in today's world.
Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about it
As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.
Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation.
People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.
Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment
Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet
If you're talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict settings, then you must talk about women, because they are the population you have left.
Aging is just like any deterioration of the body. It fulfills every category of what we call a disease except one: it impacts more than half the population.
People in TV get too worried about making things accessible but I don't think all of the viewing population want everything to be sanitised and dumbed down.
Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.
As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.
In Colombia today we have 16% of the population, which is a very small amount of the population owning 90% of the land and 20 years ago it wasn't like that.