Sentence examples for form a portion from inspiring English sources

She is a Native American, whose members form a portion of the US active duty forces (1.7%) that is twice as large as their proportion of the US population (0.8%).

In a macroeconomic sense, transportation activities form a portion of a nation's total economic product and play a role in building or strengthening a national or regional economy and as an influence in the development of land and other resources.

These questions form a portion of a new book on India, "An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions," by two economists, Jean Drèze, an Indian citizen of Belgian origin, and Amartya Sen, who was awarded the Nobel in economic science in 1998.

Second, construct-encapsulated chondrocytes continuously secrete large amounts of endogenous TGF-β in its latent form, a portion of which undergoes cell-mediated activation and enhances biosynthesis uniformly throughout the tissue.

This suggests that the fault is always sliding and that the slip amount from a large event (seismic or aseismic) may only form a portion of the total slip.

However, the stables used by the track were not torn down and currently form a portion of the DuSable Museum of African-American History.

Emitted light, the product of bioluminescence, forms a portion of the coloration of some organisms.

It then veers southeast and then northeast, forming a portion of the border with Andhra Pradesh state.

With the building of the Suez Canal, the strait assumed great strategic and economic importance, forming a portion of the link between the Mediterranean Sea and East Asia.

The blind- (bottom-) side frontal bone shifts to the ocular (upper) side and forms a portion of the optic capsule floor for the upper eye.

In southwest Arizona, where the Colorado River forms a portion of the U.S.-Mexico border, Phillips has worked with the C.B.P. since the late nineties to return swaths of cane-infested land to native habitat.