Sentence examples for a population used from inspiring English sources

These countries have endured years of intertwined conflict over diamonds and other resources, leaving them with limited health services and a population used to crossing borders to seek work or refuge.

How do you persuade a population used to thinking in regional rather than national terms, and who have next to no idea who you are, to cooperate in all this?

I've heard it suggested that, as a population used to small living spaces, they feel at home in the Parsonage (as they wouldn't at Knole or Newstead Abbey), and find nothing implausible in Charlotte's plan to set up a school with six boarders within its modest confines.

While growth will be slower than expected, Argentina counts with a substantial internal market and a population used to consumption, while natural resources abound and human capital is high.

Outdoor activities usually peak in the summer months in temperate climates when the days are longer, whereas regions with harsh weather conditions in winter have a population used to staying at home for prolonged periods.

The return to full-length workdays is a shock to a population used to "forced vacations" when street fighting or spates of shelling shut down the city.

Given a problem — adapting to a new disease, for instance — a population uses the Darwinian algorithm of random mutation plus natural selection to search for a solution (in this case, disease resistance).

On the other hand, with local habitat dynamics, a population using local dispersal can exploit suitable habitat patches and use dynamic corridors to colonize new regions.

The demand calculation includes the land and sea area a population uses to consume resources, the ecosystems that absorb waste emissions, and the space used for buildings and roads.

The Chao1 statistic [34] estimates the total number of types in a population using frequency data on types seen once only and types seen twice only.

Here we tried to model the major and minor variations in a population using short read data generated by simulation.