Sentence examples for critical proportion from inspiring English sources

Mass vaccination allows us to study how immunity operates at the group level; denser populations are more prone to transmitting disease between individuals, but once a critical proportion of the population becomes immune, "herd immunity" emerges.

The idea is that when a critical proportion of a group is immune to a disease, too few individuals are susceptible for that disease to be passed from one to another.

To put it more bluntly, in 2014, thriving newsrooms will share the following characteristics: (a) they will be fastest to inject a critical proportion of new blood in their ranks and (b) they will invest in training to add the skills, mostly tech ones, required by modern journalism.

Simulation results validate a critical proportion of committed individuals as a plausible basis for ideological shifts in societies.

Biochemical defects and tissue dysfunction will not be apparent until the mutated mtDNAs reach a minimum critical proportion, and this threshold level varies among different tissues.

A critical proportion of committed minority ensures the conversion of a certain fraction of moderates to their extremist counterpart, thereby leading to a consensus towards the minority ideology.

It is common knowledge that illicit drug use in the Russian Federation has reached critical proportions.

What a community activist called a "pervasive feeling of unease" reached critical proportions last December with the fatal shooting, by unknown men widely assumed to belong to state security, of a leading newspaper columnist, Isaiah Abraham.

On the other hand, religious institutions and spiritual leaders have not done badly compared with many other institutions, in which trust "has fallen to critical proportions," according to the World Economic Forum's analysis of its surveys.

He was ordered back to active service at the end of December 1817, when unrest along the border appeared to be reaching critical proportions.

In 2005 the European Commission named the UK as bottom of the league for language competence and, as the fall-out reached critical proportions, the government told schools they had to set a benchmark of between 50 per cent and 90percentnt for take-up of languages - an edict which has largely been ignored.