Populations Sentence Examples

The German populations of these lands seem in Roman times to have been scanty, and Roman subjects from the modern Alsace and Lorraine had drifted across the river eastwards.

The small proportion of land tilled is due to many causes, among which paucity of populations is not the least.

The conquered populations were now transported to distant parts of the empire.

The native populations of the Amur - Golds and Gilyaks - support themselves chiefly by fishing, when the salmon enters the Amur and its tributaries in dense masses.

Near Lima, on the south, there are three bathing resorts, Chorrillos, Miraflores and Barranco, which have handsome residences and large populations in the bathing season.

Alternatively, pick Ethos if you need to tackle mixed brome and black-grass populations, and want to get in early.

Milan and Piedmont were comparatively well governed; but repugnance to Austrian rule in the former case, and the contagion of French Jacobinical opinions in the latter, brought those populations into increasing hostility to the rulers.

Two hundred and fifty years of political separation and widely differing experiences had caused the two kindred populations on this and that side of the Scheldt to grow apart in sentiment and tradition.

They form to-day the chief element in the populations of Paraguay and Uruguay.

Dessau, Bernburg, Cothen and Zerbst, have populations exceeding 20,000.

Increase the extent of all known populations wherever biologically feasible.

It is prevalent in some Asiatic populations.

The Albanians in Greece and Italy, though separated for six centuries from the parent stock, have not yet been absorbed by the surrounding populations.

There were eserted cities falling into ruins, and others, like Chichen-itza, xmal and Tuloom, which were still inhabited by remnants of heir former Maya populations.

They do not appear to have moved on to another sphere, as these nomadic tribes often did when defeated, and were probably gradually absorbed in the surrounding populations.

Hindus appear to have settled in Sumatra and Java as early as the 4th century of our era, and to have continued to exercise sway over the native populations for many centuries.

During the great migrations in Asia from east to west many populations were probably driven to the northern borders of the great plateau and thence compelled to descend into Siberia; succeeding waves of immigration forced them still farther towards the barren grounds of the north, where they melted away.

To avoid conflicts with the denser populations of the south, they preferred to advance eastwards along higher latitudes; meanwhile Moscow erected forts and settled labourers around them to supply the garrisons with food.

The equites remained' at home, or only went out as members of the general's staff, their places being taken by the equites equo p y ivato, the cavalry of the allies and the most skilled horsemen of the subject populations.

The southern districts and the Amazon and its tributaries were often raided by slave-hunting expeditions, and their Indian populations were either decimated, or driven farther into the inaccessible forests.

It had been drained of both wealth and fighting population; the devastated provinces of Elam and Babylonia could yield nothing with which to supply the needs of the imperial exchequer, and it was difficult to find sufficient troops even to garrison the conquered populations.

Here, in the 8th-6th centuries, all the Dorian states were in the hands of exclusive aristocracies, which presented a marked contrast to the subject populations.

The pandean pipes continued in favour with the rustic populations of the West long after the organ evolved from it had eclipsed this humble prototype.

But the "Turkification" of non-Turkish populations was on another footing.

The Social Democratic party endeavoured, indeed, to remove the last remains of the old electoral privilege in town and country; but the urgent motion which they brought in to this effect as early as July 8 1908 broke down, owing to a not unfounded anxiety lest in the Crown territories of mixed populations one nationality should predominate too much over another.

The chief cities and towns of the state, with their populations in 1890, are Victoria, Sao Matheus (municipality, 7761) on a river of the same name 16 m.

In 1753 Spain and Portugal exchanged certain American provinces with each other, which involved a transfer of sovereign rights over Paraguay; but it was also provided that the populations should severally migrate also, that the subjects of each crown might remain the same as before.

Kutais is divided into seven districts, of which the chief towns, with their populations in 1897, are Kutais, capital of the province (q.v.); Lailashi (834), chief;town of Lechgum, of which Svanetia makes a separate administrative unit; Ozurgeti (4694); Oni, chief town of Racha; Senaki (Ioi); Kvirili, of Sharopan district; Zugdidi; and two semi-military districts - Batum (28,512) with Artvin (7000) and Sukhum-kaleh (7809).

Other important cities, with their populations, were Selma (8713), Anniston (9695), Huntsville (8068), Bessemer (6358), Tuscaloosa (5094), Talladega (5056), Eufaula (4532) and Tuskegee (2170).

Whereas during the 19th century states were being cut out to suit the existing distribution of language, in the 20th the tendency seems to be to avoid further rearrangement of boundaries, and to complete the homogeneity, thus far attained, by the artificial method of forcing reluctant populations to adopt the language of the predominant or governing race.

Hardly any one will be so confident of the virtue of his rulers as to believe that every war which his country wages in every part of its dominions with uncivilized as well as civilized populations, is just and necessary, and it is certainly prima facie not in accordance with an ideal morality that men should bind themselves absolutely for life or for a term of years to kill without question, at the command of their superiors, those who have personally done them no wrong."

The capital is the only city or town of much extent in the island; but there are a number of villages, such as Benizze, Gasturi, Ipso, Glypho, with populations varying from 300 to 1000.

By this time the town populations and the educated among the country-folk spoke Latin, and Britain regarded itself as a Roman land, inhabited by Romans and distinct from outer barbarians.

To these we have to add small German and Flemish-speaking communities in Italy and France and somewhat larger German and Swedish populations in Russia.

Outside Europe we have to include also the very numerous populations in America, Africa, Australasia, &c., which have emigrated from the same countries.

We know indeed that France, Spain, Italy, &c., contained within historical times large populations which were Teutonic both by origin and by language, but these have now been completely absorbed.

The Franks and the Langobardi remained in Gaul and Italy, but they gradually became denationalized and absorbed in the native populations, while in Spain Teutonic nationality came to an end with the overthrow of the Visigothic kingdom by the Moors, if not before.

In south-eastern Europe also the Teutonic elements were swallowed up by the native and Slavonic populations, though a small remnant lingered in the Crimea until probably the 17th century.

The settlers, however, were not sufficiently numerous to preserve their nationality, and in almost all cases they were soon absorbed by the populations (Teutonic, Celtic, Latin or Slavonic) which they had conquered.

Little is known of the condition of the subject populations of the peninsula during the Arab occupation; but we are informed that the Christians were, sometimes at least, judged according to their own laws in separate tribunals presided over by Christian judges; 2 and the mere fact of the preservation of the name alcalde, an official whose functions corresponded so closely to those of the judex or defensor civitatis, is fitted to suggest that the old municipal fora, if much impaired, were not even then in all cases wholly destroyed.

To these figures ought to be added the populations (1904) of Borgerhout (43,391) and Berchem (26,383), as they are part of the city, which would give Antwerp a total population of 361,723.

Almost a quarter of the inhabitants live in towns, of which Munich and Nuremberg have populations exceeding 100,000, Augsburg, Wurzburg, Furth and Ludwigshafen between 50,000 and 100.,000, while twenty-six other towns number from 10,000 to 50,000 inhabitants.

The order in council mentioned, which may be described as the first constitution granted Ashanti by its British owners, provides that the governor, in issuing ordinances respecting the administration of justice, the raising of revenue, or any other matter, shall respect any native laws by which the civil relations of any chiefs, tribes or populations are regulated, "except so far as they may be incompatible with British sovereignty or clearly injurious to the welfare of the natives themselves."

Chief Towns.According to the results of the census of the 1st of December 1905 there were within the empire 41 towns with populations exceeding 100,000, viZ.

The eastern part of Germany was much less known to the Romans, information being particularly deficient as to the populations of the coast districts, though it seems probable that the Rugii inhabited the eastern part of Pomerania, where a trace of them is preserved in the name Rugenwalde.

For everywhere the Slav populations were growing restive under the German-Magyar domination.

Fowell Buxton to inquire into the treatment of the indigenous populations of the various British colonies.

In addition to the towns mentioned there are many others containing populations of from 10,000 to 20,000, the bulk of the inhabitants of the Hausa countries being town dwellers.

There are many other towns in the Delta with populations between io,ooo and 20,000.

Gera, Amadib, Senhit and Gallabat were, in consequence, duly succoured, and their garrisons and Egyptian populations brought away to the coast by the Abyssinians in 1885.

Nothing certain is known of the history of these mixed populations.

In the main, then, the expansion of the Anglican Church has followed that of the British empire, or, as in America, of its daughter states; its claim, so far as rights of jurisdiction are concerned, is to be the Church of England and the English race, while recognizing its special duties towards the non-Christian populations subject to the empire or brought within the reach of its influence.

The other urban districts are Brynmawr, Builth Wells and Hay, with populations of 6833, of 1805 and of 1680 respectively in 1901.

In this vast region of distribution the Fula populations are most dense towards the west and north, most scattered towards the east and south.

Villages have populations of from 300 to 2000; towns from 2000 upwards.

Of their populations Herodotus mentions the Bactrians, Chorasmians, Sogdians and Sacae as contributing their contingents to the armies of the great king Darius.

The name Moor is however still applied to the populations speaking Arabic who inhabit the country extending from Morocco to the Senegal, and to the Niger as far east as Timbuktu, i.e.

To a certain extent they have passed under the same succession of influences; they have been subjected to the same invasions, and have received accessions to their populations from the same currents of migration or conquest.

The case was different when the Jews were dispersed through the new Greek kingdoms, and lived in cities like Jerusalem and Alexandria, centres of wealth and luxury, inhabited by mixed populations; this form of debauchery then became commoner and better organized.

The valleys of the Chira and Piura are irrigated and maintain large populations.

The name rayah is most commonly used of the peasants, but it does not apply only to the agricultural populations.

The ease with which the native populations of the conquered districts, exclusively or prevailingly Christian, adapted themselves to the new rule is very striking.

Eight other cities had populations of more than 5000 - Riverside City (7973), Vallejo (7965), Eureka (7327), Santa Rosa (6673), Santa Barbara (6587), San Bernardino (6156), Santa Cruz (5659), and Pomona (5526).

There are a few fertile spots near the mountains, where mountain streams afford irrigation and potable water, and support small populations, but in general Tacna is occupied for mining purposes only.

Of the chief place in the western division, Pontianak has about 9000 inhabitants; Sambas about 8000; Montrado, Mampawa and Landak between 2000 and 4000 each; and in the south and eastern division there are Banjermasin with nearly 50,000 inhabitants; Marabahan, Amuntai, Negara, Samarinda and Tengarung with populations of from 5000 to io,000 inhabitants each.

It is chiefly from the populations of the south-west of Europe that the New World is being colonized; but the territories over which the settlers and their recruits from abroad are able to scatter are so extensive that even the lower densities of the Old World have not yet been attained, except in a few tracts along the eastern coasts of Australia and North America.

From Russia, too, there is a stream of colonization across the Urals into western Siberia, and amongst the western Mediterranean populations there is constant migration to North Africa The greatest drain from Europe, however, has been across the sea to the United States, Canada and Australasia, especially to the first-named.

One of the reasons that induced the subject populations to accept with pleasure the establishment of the Empire was the improvement in financial treatment that it secured.

The 1 Those branches of the church extension scheme which dealt with church building, and with the opening of new missions to meet the wants of increasing populations, were taken up by a new department, called the Home Mission scheme.

Only four towns in North Wales are included in these eighteen, and the combined populations of these four - Wrexham (14,966), Festiniog (11,435), Bangor (11,269) and Holyhead (10,079) - fall far below that of Merthyr Tydfil (69,228), the fourth largest town in Glamorganshire.

In addition to these examples, it is obvious that the rapid increase of English-speaking populations in the United States and in Australia is far greater than can be explained by immigration, and shows two conspicuous examples of acclimatization.

The more northern provinces, however, maintain their populations without the support of such small cultivated areas.

For a list of provinces, their areas, reduced from official returns, their populations, and the names and populations of their capitals, see the bottom of this page.

In due time the city populations, free from the feudal yoke, and safe within the walls which in many instances the bishops had built for them, became impatient also of the bishop's government.

The Fula portion of this province, held like the other Hausa states under a feudal system of large landowners or fief-holders, has been organized and assessed for taxation on the system accepted by the emirs throughout the protectorate, and the populations are working harmoniously under British rule.

Includes both Dutch language literature from the Netherlands and her colonies, Belgium and her colonies, France and foreign Dutch immigrant populations including Afrikaners before Afrikaans became standardised.

The antiquity and greatness of the place are recognized by the native populations, who speak of it as the Mother of Cities.

The state, for instance, could perhaps more usefully engage in some great works, such as establishing reservoirs of water for the use of town populations on a systematic plan, or making a tunnel under one of the channels between Ireland and Great Britain, or a sea-canal across Scotland between the Clyde and the Forth, or purchasing land from Irish landlords and transferring it to tenants, than allow money to fructify or not fructify, as the case may be, in the pockets of individuals.

Probably the most crying need was that of priests to minister to the great city populations, at that time growing up with such rapidity, especially in Italy.

The social fabric was built up not on the towns, but on the great landlords; and when the centre of gravity began to move, first of all in Italy, to the towns, and crowded populations began to be massed together in them, the parochial systems broke down under the weight of the new conditions, and the people were in a state of spiritual and moral no less than physical destitution.

Though an agricultural state, Missouri had in 1900 three cities with populations of above 100,000, whose wealth is based on manufactures and trade.

But even the rural populations have generally found surface springs insufficiently constant for their use and have adopted the obvious remedy of sinking wells.

The invention of machinery and the jadesthe concentration of the working population in manufacturing centres had all but destroyed the old village industries, and great populations were growing up outside the traditional restraints of the old system of class dependence.

Wednesfield (pop. 4883), Heath Town Or Wednesfield Heath (9441) and Willenhall (18, 515) are neighbouring urban districts, with populations employed in the manufacture of locks, keys and small iron goods, in iron and brass foundries, varnish works, &c.

The principal towns and their populations are Yarkand, 100,000; Khotan, 40,000; Kashgar, 33,000; Ak-su, 15,000; Keriya, 12,000; and Kulja, 20,000.

The act provides facilities for the conversion into urban districts of (1) towns having town commissioners who are not sanitary authorities and (2) non-municipal towns with populations of over i 50o and entitled to petition for town commissioners.

The newcomers probably overran the whole island, subduing but not exterminating the older race with which they doubtless intermarried freely, as pre-Celtic types are frequent among the populations of Connaught and Munster at the present day.

Between 1816 and 1826 the state expended upon internal improvements $1,712,626, a large part of which was appropriated for building canals round the rapids of five rivers; 1 In this class are included the manufactures of only four cities, Charleston, Columbia, Greenville and Spartanburg, which in 1900 had populations of 8000 or more.

For more than two centuries they had remained prudently entrenched behind the earthworks that extended from Cologne to Ratisbon (Regensburg); but the intestine feuds which prevailed among the barbarians and were fostered by Rome, the organizatipn under bold and turbulent chiefs of the bands greedy for booty, the pressing forward on populations already settled of tribes in their rear; all this caused the Germanic invasion to filter by degrees across the frontier.

By doing this they are protecting natural populations in the forest, sustaining biological diversity in vivo.

It has been designed to assist academics to design and deliver coursework to allow for the divergent needs of student populations.

I am interested to see if purging of deleterious alleles by selection is occurring in captive populations.

All the six native British amphibians have declining populations but most still occur on our waterways.

Populations resistant to synthetic auxins have also been identified.

Equally, it is clear that the elimination of agro-chemicals in arable land areas will lead to increased populations of insects and other biota.

Gardeners must take care not to plant Spanish or hybrid bluebells in the countryside or near native populations.

It may cause a mite buildup by reducing mite predator populations.

Bullhead bullhead Bullhead populations, like spined loach, appear to be under considerable threat.

Thanks to the significant Caribbean and Asian populations in Bristol, there are no shortage of curries and jerk chicken in the city center.

Drosophila simulans populations are unaffected by the global temperature rise but those of D. subobscura are significantly increased at 15¥C in the hot clines.

When applied to Catheter related bloodstream infections the study populations were homogenous enough to allow collation.

The map shows apparently strong populations of red squirrels in the large areas of mainly coniferous forest in the North East.

Acknowledging the presence of some rare fragile populations of native trout could act as a fundamental cornerstone in this reform.

The degree of relationship between three or more sample populations may be quantified using the multiple correlation coefficient.

To fully grasp the reasons behind declines in vulnerable wader populations, it is crucial to understand the demography.

It has been designed to assist academics to designed to assist academics to design and deliver coursework to allow for the divergent needs of student populations.

Currently it has a rather discontinuous distribution with strong populations in Greece, Spain, Portugal and much of eastern Europe.

No sublittoral populations became bleached and there was often a clear disjunction between littoral bleached and sublittoral unbleached plants.

By measuring genetic divergence between populations using molecular markers, I hope to relate this host specificity to the process of incipient speciation.

The oil is threatening important populations of water voles, a nationally endangered mammal, and the wildlife of the Humber Estuary.

I have left the highway, cities and their populations far behind me still enfolded in night.

Mudflats, sheltered bays and deep firths harbor good populations of migrant and breeding waders and wildfowl.

Non-indigenous flatworms prey on the native earthworm, threatening earthworm populations.

In a comparative test, they raised mice with and without immune systems to see how blood fluke populations would thrive.

Differential localized changes in proliferative rates of populations of cells could play a crucial role in the patterning of the developing forebrain.

Bleached populations occurred predominantly at the sublittoral fringe, pale plants further up the shore occurred quite frequently in the normal course of events.

Main research interests are in the development and use of molecular genetic markers for the management of natural populations and farmed fish.

Despite the growing size and distinctive characteristics of urban Aboriginal populations, they have received relatively little attention among Canadian geographers.

It is difficult to get lacewings to reproduce in the area applied so repeat applications maybe required if fresh greenfly or aphid populations appear.

Economic sanctions, by their very nature, are designed to inflict economic hardship on civilian populations.

Introduce populations of stinking hawk's-beard at four additional sites in accordance with the proposals under English Nature's Species Recovery Program.

From the above analysis, attacks on civilian electric infrastructures are indiscriminate due to the foreseeable suffering of the affected populations.

The trend toward older populations is largely irreversible, with young populations becoming static or falling.

Attempts to create kinship across Europe take diverse forms, from transnational cultural projects to efforts to control populations by redrawing borders.

Latino populations won't stretch to save on all.

The existence of forest islands offering healthy populations of these palms are the single most important ecological requirement for the Blue-throated macaw.

The nomads were subjected to great pressure of moving populations and gradually migrated westward, where they had increasing contact with European countries.

Predation by the introduced American mink is thought to have a severe impact on the water voles populations, even causing local extinction.

C5 Vagrant naturalized species - species from established naturalized species - species from established naturalized populations abroad, e.g. possibly some Ruddy Shelducks Tadorna ferruginea occurring in Britain.

C5 Vagrant naturalized species - species from established naturalized populations abroad, e.g. possibly some Ruddy Shelducks Tadorna ferruginea occurring in Britain.

How can the world apply pressure on the most powerful nations, even nuclear nations, when they abuse their own populations?

Other projects that are part of the YM group of services also conduct outreach with their target populations.

My current research involves studies into the genetic diversity of the natural populations of human bacterial pathogens.

African penguins have suffered a 90% drop in their populations during the last 100 years.

Prevention campaigns employing the drug pentamidine covered entire populations, each person receiving one injection.

More than 40% of these deaths took place in the poorest regions of Peru where the indigenous populations are concentrated.

Their north Atlantic breeding populations are estimated to have declined by about 90 per cent in the last 20 years.

Populations of harbor porpoises in EU waters are under threat.

A talk which looks at population dynamics, predator prey relationships and factors (biotic and abiotic) affecting animal populations.

Dysfunctional oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPC) populations may inhibit repopulation of OPC depleted tissue.

The study was conducted to assess its effectiveness in predicting the prognosis for Chinese patient populations.

Pygmy present populations go back to Nilotic and Bantu migrations as well as the indigenous pygmies.

We must reject the reductionism that gives priority to molecules over cells and cells over organisms and organisms over populations.

The savage repression of local populations usually did enough to put people off of joining any local resistance force.

Asian elephant, Sumatran rhinoceros, orangutan, and tiger populations are all declining because palm oil plantations are encroaching on their habitats.

One such asset is absolute pitch ability, which is rare in normal populations but ubiquitous in musical savants.

There are healthy populations of hedgehogs, moles, field mice, common and Pigmy shrews, and short-tailed and bank voles.

As energy prices skyrocket in the coming years, how will the populations of suburbia react to the collapse of their dream?

It is particularly noted for its populations of breeding snipe.

The creation of arable field margins and leaving overwinter stubbles followed by a spring crop should help boost local farm bird populations.

The burgeoning bushmeat trade is the most deadly threat to the survival of Africa's great apes and is devastating wild populations.

Hence we can characterize populations of lymphocytes according to their pattern of calcium transients.

The aim is to halt transmission of human and animal trypanosomiasis by progressively eliminating tsetse populations throughout the endemic regions of Africa.

Some have begun to map such processes as they swept through mass mediated populations of the age of asymmetric warfare.

Grass and broadleaf weed populations varied between the organic and conventional systems each year, but the impact on yield was considered negligible.

These pollutants have led to decreases in the populations of common whelks in the North Sea and cause DNA breakdown in some marine organisms.

They occur with frequency also in northern Africa, and in many parts of North and South America the aboriginal populations have practised similar customs. Sepulchral tumuli, however, vary so much in shape and size that the external appearance is no criterion of age or origin.

Although it has been postulated that the inhabitants of the modern village are of Albanian origin (Arvanites), this is contradicted by the fact that modern Megarians lack any knowledge of the Albanian dialect (Arvanitika), remnants of which still survive in the populations of neighboring towns such as Mandra, Eleusis, and Magoula.

In these further provinces of Iran the Macedonian invader had for the first time to encounter a serious national opposition, for in the west the Iranian rule had been merely the supremacy of an alien power over native populations indifferent or hostile.

Five short-lived kings of the house ruled in Armenia after 1342, "Latin exiles," as Stubbs says, "in the midst of several strange populations all alike hostile."

While the other primitive populations of the peninsula were either hellenized or latinized, or subsequently absorbed by the Slavonic immigration, the Albanians to a great extent remained unaffected by foreign influences.

In the 13th century these towns had become the seat of large industrial populations (varying according to different estimates from ioo,000 to 200,000 inhabitants), employed upon the weaving of cloth with its dependent industries, and closely bound up by trade interests with England, from whence they obtained the wool for their looms. Bruges, at that time connected with the sea by the river Zwijn and with Sluis as its port, was the central mart and exchange of the world's commerce.

The population (74,170 in 1891; 65,430 in 1901; almost wholly rural) shows a decrease among the most serious of the county populations of Ireland.

It had to extend the hours of business at all the offices; it had to extend the wires from railway stations lying outside of town populations to post offices in the centre of those populations and throughout their suburbs; it had also to extend the wires from towns into rural districts previously devoid of telegraphic communication; it had to effect a complete severance of commercial and domestic telegraphy from that of mere railway traffic, and in order to effect this severance it had to provide the railways with some 6000 m.

Other towns, with their populations in 1890, are Oeiras (19,858), founded in 1718 under the name of Moxa; Amarante (15,525); Valenta (17,693); and Campo Maior (12,425), the figures given of population being those of the large districts (municipios) in which the towns are situated.

Their history is therefore not the history of a single people, centralizing and absorbing its constituent elements by a process of continued evolution, but of a group of cognate populations, exemplifying divers types of constitutional developments.

What is called Volscian, known only from the important inscription of the town of Velitrae, and what is called Umbrian, known from the famous Iguvine Tables with a few other records, would be regarded as Safine dialects, spoken by Safine communities who had become more or less isolated in the midst of the earlier and possibly partly Etruscanized populations, the result being that as early as the 4th century n.c. their language had suffered corruptions which it escaped both in the Samnite mountains and in the independent and self-contained community of Rome.

Pastoral communities are always scattered very thinly over large areas; agricultural populations may be almost equally sparse where advanced methods of agriculture and labour-saving machinery are employed; but where a frugal people are situated on a fertile and inexhaustible soil, such as the deltas and river plains of Egypt, India and China, an enormous population may be supported on a small area.

As the origin of the Sierra Leonis and the Americo-Liberian settlers was very much the same, an increasing intimacy is growing up between the English-speaking populations of these adjoining countries.

In short, complete Russification of all nonRussian populations and institutions was the chief aim of the government in home affairs.

Modern archaeological discovery, however, is against this belief; and the fact that Mysus, Lydus and Car were regarded as brothers indicates that the three populations who worshipped together in the temple of Mylasa all belonged to the same stock.

The largest Jewish populations were those of Russia (5,215,000), Austria-Hungary (2,084,000), United States of America (1,777,000), Germany (607,000, of whom 409,000 were in Prussia), Turkey (463,000, of whom some 78,000 resided in Palestine), Rumania (250,000), Morocco (109,000) and Holland (106,000).

After the Armistice, 1918, his services were extended to the destitute populations of central Europe.

The countries lying between India and the Mongolian are occupied by populations chiefly of the Mongolian and Chinese type, having languages fundamentally monosyllabic, but using letters derived from India, and adopting their religion, which is almost everywhere Buddhist, from the Indians.

The details of the text are obscure, and seem to imply that David systematically attacked populations friendly to Achish whilst pretending that he had been making forays against Judah.

Mid-Syria shows a medley of populations of more or less mixed origin, in large part alien, for which see Druses; Maronites and Lebanon.

Ottoman control is imperfect in Lebanon, the Houran, and over the Armenian mountain region of Zeitun and over the eastern steppe-lands, whose nomadic populations can withdraw themselves out of reach.

The reported populations by the (untrustworthy) censuses of 1 774, 1 79 2 and 1817 were 161,670, 273, 3 01 and 553, 0 33.

The Abaco and Exuma groups and Long Island each support populations exceeding 3000, and there are smaller populations on Grand Bahama, the Crooked Islands, Inagua, Mayaguana, Watling, Rum Cay and the Biminis, though these last, which are two very small north-western islands, are relatively densely populated with 545 persons.

At first the indigenous populations were pitilessly deprived of their hunting and grazing grounds and compelled to resort to agriculture - a modification exceedingly hard for them, not only on account of their poverty but also because they were compelled to settle in the less favourable regions.

Abeokuta (a word meaning "under the rocks"), dating from 1825, owes its origin to the incessant inroads of the slavehunters from Dahomey and Ibadan, which compelled the village populations scattered over the open country to take refuge in this rocky stronghold against the common enemy.

In 193, as praetor, he carried on a successful war against the insubordinate populations of his recently constituted province of Hispania Citerior.

Warington Smyth, Notes of a Journey on the Upper Mekong (1895); Five Years in Siam (1898); Harmand, Le Laos et les populations sauvages de l'Indo-Chine (1880).

Other prominent towns with their populations in 1895, are Comitan, or Comitlan (9316), on the Rio Grijalva about 40 m.

Strictly the Guanches were the primitive inhabitants of Teneriffe, where they seem to have preserved racial purity to the time of the Spanish conquest, but the name came to be applied to the indigenous populations of all the islands.

It would not be at all surprising if, in the great movements of populations and shifting of ascendancy which lie beyond our historical horizon, the worship of Yahweh should have been established in regions remote from those which it occupied in historical times; but nothing which we now know warrants the opinion that his worship was ever general among the Western Semites.

Since the kinship of the latter with the members of adjacent non-Dorian states was admitted, two different explanations seem to have been made, (I) on behalf of the non-Dorian populations, either that the Dorians were no true sons of Hellen, but were of some other northerly ancestry; or that they were merely Achaean exiles; and in either case that their historic predominance resulted from an act of violence, ill-disguised by their association with the ancient claims of the Peloponnesian Heraclidae; (2) on behalf of the Dorian aristocracies, that they were in some special sense " sons of Hellen," if not the only genuine Hellenes; the rest of the European Greeks, and in particular the anti-Dorian Athenians (with their marked likeness to Ionians), being regarded as Hellenized barbarians of " Pelasgian " origin (see Pelasgians).

The picture of the industrious and famishing populations of the Riviera is (whether true to fact or not) one of the best things that Michelet has done.

The only traces left by the primitive populations are the megalithic monuments (dolmens, menhirs and cromlechs), which remain to this day in great numbers (see Stone Monuments).

Then you ask the computer for any other statistical anomalies between these two populations.

One she-wolf produces five pups in a litter compared to one calf per reindeer, yet both populations remain the same.

The present populations go back to Nilotic and Bantu migrations as well as the indigenous pygmies.

In response to their restive populations, governments are likely to return to protective barriers.

Their objective for farmland birds is the reversal of the long term decline in populations of farmland birds.

The introduction of Category C is reworded to read Species that although introduced now derive from the resulting self-sustaining populations.

In the 1960's rhino populations were estimated at 100,000, there are now about 13,000.

Freshwater pearl mussels need healthy salmonid populations to complete their life cycle.

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Most passages lack the inflow of seepage water, probably vital for the maintenance of cave populations.

Action plan objectives and targets Halt the current decline and maintain at least 50 self-sustaining populations.

Weasels and stoat populations have probably also stabilized, after previous declines, while the pine marten may be staging a slow recovery.

Current action There are four lesser bearded stonewort populations on the Sefton Coast, all of which are protected within a NNR.

The vitamin D status of subgroups of the populations has been shown to be poor.

Even small areas of just a few trees on swampy ground, can hold populations of rare species.

Here the Thai state drew strength from longstanding official international biases against swidden cultivation, mobile populations and highlanders ' forestry practices.

In many host-parasite systems parasites are better able to parasitise their sympatric host population than hosts from other populations of the same species.

Tern breeding populations can fluctuate among years owing to variations in the proportion of mature birds that attempt to nest.

In these cases the objective had been to terrorize local populations believed to be helping the Resistance.

The burgeoning bushmeat trade is the most deadly threat to the survival of Africa 's great apes and is devastating wild populations.

Researchers produced cloned populations of two trypanosome stocks with induced Suramin resistance.

There has been a 63% decline in water vole populations in the county over the past 7 years.

The effect of water quality on overwintering waterfowl populations.

Until now, BYDV control has involved breaking the " green bridge " and reducing aphid populations in autumn with well-timed insecticide sprays.

The populations of a number of wintering waterbirds, such as dunlin, ringed plover and turnstone, have continued to decline.

Changes in zooplankton populations in a wetland ecosystem due to drought.

Pesticides, climate change and loss of habitat will continue to affect bee populations unless they learn to adapt.

The disabled and elderly populations are the most vulnerable to the effects of cuts to budgets for social services.

The decline in amphibian populations since the 1980s is viewed as a significant threat to biodiversity.

The largest populations of cats in pounds and rescue facilities are strays born on the street of at least one parent who has a home.

Industrialized farming is one prominent cause of soil contamination, with the heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides leaving soil contaminated by chemicals, and large populations of livestock the source of heavy organic contamination.

The effect of rising sea levels is catastrophic on smaller islands and coastlines, causing displacement of populations and coastal flooding.

Here, huge turbines can gather the energy from the sea winds without using valuable land or bothering nearby populations.

Freshwater pollution affects drinking and agricultural water sources and impacts fish populations.

Wetlands are transitional areas between deep water and drained uplands that provide home and shelter to fish, shellfish and migrating bird populations.

Though beauty ideals changed as time went on, many women were heavily influenced by makeup use among certain populations.

Additionally, many universities have large populations of graduate students who are engaged in master's or doctoral degree programs.

Furthermore, avoid exceptionally swampy parks or areas of long grass that will harbor elevated mosquito populations.

Though this disease can affect any dog breed anywhere in the country, it is more prevalent in warmer climates where pest populations are higher.

The same process applies to removing suspected tick populations inside of your home.

Because many species overwinter as adults, they are able to keep pest populations in your garden under control by cutting down on adult pest species before they reproduce.

Weeding regularly will help break up soil clumps that slugs like to hang out it and may be effective at reducing your populations.

Fence off the garden, if possible, in areas where there are excessive animal populations.

Existing populations either die off or leave, clearing the area for new crops.

Some experts say this could prevent disease in certain populations.

If farmers were able to produce crops faster and at a lower cost than ever before, it would be possible to feed many more people and with foods that may have been souped up with nutrients typically unavailable in certain populations.

The Alive! line also includes energy and protein supplements, as well as vitamins tailored to aging populations.

So looking at the Baby Boom from the viewpoint of a demographer, a person that studies vital statistics and human populations, Baby Boomers are simply a number of people born during a specific span of years.

There are two main forms of sleeping sickness, both of which are found almost exclusively in Africa's poor populations.

With few predators, elk populations rose tremendously, until by the time wolves were reintroduced in 1995, there were as many as 35,000 elk in the park during the summer.

The incidence of biliary atresia is highest in Asian populations.

Candida is a common cause of vaginal infections in adolescent girls, especially when the normal populations of the bacteria Lactobacilli have been reduced due to antibiotic use, allowing the overgrowth of Candida.

The burden of diabetes is much greater for minority populations than the white population.

This disparity is of great concern in large urban areas with underserved populations because of the potential for outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Prevention is accomplished best through educational programs specific to target populations.

Tourette syndrome is found in all populations and all ethnic groups, but is three to four times more common in males than females.

People with CF live with chronic populations of bacteria in their lungs, and lung infection is the major cause of death for those with CF.

Some diseases have a higher prevalence in specific populations.

It is found in populations all over the world (20,000-40,000 people have a type of the disease), and it occurs with equal frequency in males and females.

Refsum's disease has a recessive pattern of inheritance and affects populations from Northern Europe, particularly Scandinavians.

However, certain populations have significantly higher rates of TSD.

Estimates of the incidence of FMF in specific eastern Mediterranean populations range from one in 2,000 Arabs to one in 250 Sephardic Jews, one in 500 Armenians, and one in 1,000 Turks.

Those who carried a single "beneficial" mutation in the MEFV gene were more likely to survive and reproduce, which may explain the high carrier frequency (up to one in five) in some populations.

For example, sulfonylurea drugs are not FDA approved for use in children with type 2 diabetes due to a lack of clinical studies in pediatric populations, but a physician may prescribe them in an off-label use of the drug.

Twelve-step programs have spun off over the years to meet the needs of specific populations, including adult children of alcoholics and teens who are alcoholics.

Among other populations, the incidence of VP is estimated to be one to two cases per 100,000 persons.

For cancer, studies of populations around the world have implied that plant-based diets have lower associated risks for certain types of cancer.

Asian populations, which have a low incidence of SIDS.

It is difficult to obtain accurate prevalence figures for various types of thalassemia within different populations.

Studies indicate that the incidence of this disease in Caucasian and Native American populations is higher than in African-American, Hispanic, and Asian populations.

Hemophilia A affects between one in 5,000 to one in 10,000 males in most populations.

The Survey estimated that "youth gangs were active in over 2,300 cities with populations over 2,500 in 2002."

Some racial and ethnic populations are affected more than others.

Descendants of Northern Europe usually do not develop the condition (incidence is less than 20 percent in these populations).

Deficiencies in one nutrient do occur, however, such as in populations living in iodine-poor regions, and in iron deficient persons who lose excess iron by abnormal bleeding.

Lice are endemic in human populations, spreading through personal contact or contact with infested clothing or other personal items.

Children living in inner cities, low-income populations, and minorities have disproportionately higher morbidity and mortality due to asthma.

Prevalence of HSV-2 in adolescents and young adults varies by the demographic and behavioral characteristics of the populations studied as well as the diagnostic methods used.

The average age of first sexual intercourse is between 16 and 17 years for adolescent men and between the age of 17 and 18 years for adolescent women, and has been found to be as young as age 12 in some high-risk populations.

In Japan, classic galactosemia is not diagnosed as frequently as it is in Caucasian populations in the United States.

The medical profession is divided on the issue of screening; some physicians believe that the screening should be focused in areas of common occurrence or within high-risk populations such as foreign-born children.

Only 15 to 16 percent of the Caucasian population is Rh-negative, compared to approximately 8 percent of the African-American population and significantly lower in Asian populations.

Free census records are also available for other populations.

The test provides no medical information and is only used to compare the subject's DNA to historic populations.

Like several other nutritional products and supplements, no long term studies prove the health benefits of kombucha, but ancient populations relied on the drink as an overall health tonic and gastrointestinal cure.

It is possible to become deficient in vitamin E even if you aren't in one of the above populations.

If you fit into any of the above populations or suspect you may be deficient in vitamin D, it is possible to get your vitamin D levels tested through a simple blood test.

You can spend time cleaning beaches, counting animal populations or just about anything else.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funds seven program areas including building human capital, pioneer, vulnerable populations, childhood obesity, coverage, public health and quality/equality.

Mining for diamonds is a heavily destructive process on the surrounding land, and the presence of conflict and blood diamonds takes a heavy toll on local populations as well.

Water pollution - The lakes and streams near and around the diamond mines have experienced a drop in the fish populations due to the diminished water quality.

In fact, some of these schools may address some of the most severely handicapped populations.

In areas with high immigrant populations, LIHEAP applications may be available in both English and Spanish.

Income distribution is far from equal across the U.S. Poverty tends to be concentrated in areas that have high immigrant populations and few high-paying employers.

I'm also discovering that a lot of exercise and yoga teachers are looking for information and materials to help them work with populations that might not fit into regular yoga classes.

I am still deciding what form these publications will take, but I hope to create something useful for teachers and practitioners out of my 20 years of experience in working with seniors and a variety of populations.

He cites asthma within minority populations as an example, suggesting all parents in this demographic prompted their children to fake a cough in order to get a diagnosis of asthma.

The CDC and the National Institutes of Health indicate that no studies have found conclusive evidence that the shot causes autism, but lack of evidence may not be enough to secure faith in all populations.

In certain populations, use of hCG supplementation can heighten his or her risk of developing certain diseases.

In some populations, they increase the risk of the health problems listed above.

You can go at your own pace, making the equipment ideal for special populations such as children, the elderly, and people recovering from injuries.

In the United States Louisiana and the northern New England states of Maine, NH and Vermont near the Canadian border have significant populations of people who speak French.

A Bourbon at Versailles, a Habsburg at Vienna, or a thick-lipped Lorrainer, with a stroke of his pen, wrote off province against province, regarding not the populations who had bled for him or thrown themselves upon his mercy.

At last, on the 24th of March, the treaty was signed whereby the cession was agreed upon, but subject to the vote of the populations concerned and ratification by the Italian parliament.

There are a number of large towns in the state, but the census returns include their populations in those of the municipios (communes) to which they belong.

In short, complete Russification of all non-Russian populations and institutions was the chief aim of the government in home affairs.

There is considerable movement of grain in Siberia itself, the populations of vast portions of the territory, especially of the mining regions, having to rely upon imported corn.

In most places they have become extinct or absorbed in the surrounding populations owing to their habit of incorporating prisoners in the tribe.

Subsequent studies have used much larger populations, and the Food and Drug Administration, the Center for Disease Control, and the American Academy of Pediatrics all stand behind the safety of vaccines.

These French-speaking populations are typically descendants of Acadians who emigrated from France in the 17th and 18th centuries, so the form of French they speak is not exactly like what is spoken in France.

Populations throughout the world are more free than ever to express their personal beliefs and opinions, and in this way, the Internet is serving as a catalyst for freedom throughout the world.

On several occasions they incited the populations of the towns through which they passed against the Jews, and also against the monks who opposed their propaganda.