Sentence examples for improving the population from inspiring English sources

From the end of the 19th century until the 1940's, when eugenics' link with the Nazis finally ruined its reputation, Americans were swept up by the prospect of improving the population's physical and mental stock through selective breeding.

It explores the development of Pasteur's world-changing idea, as well as the establishment of the public health system in Britain and its enormous impact on improving the population's health – even if it can't yet overcome the tyranny of the common cold.

In response to this human resources deficit, the Ministry of Health in Maputo has decided a cost-effective and innovative way of improving the population's overall health is to train and deploy thousands of auxiliary medical assistants, known locally as community health workers (CHWs).

In Rousseau's view theater, far from improving the population, tends to weaken their attachment to the life of the polis.

For some commentators, even exhortations to choose the "best child" are not eugenic because they occur in the realm of "private enterprise" and are not directed at improving the population (Savulescu 2001).

Metrics are needed to measure and assess the performance of the healthcare system in improving the population health.

Quangos that strive to improve the population's skills, such as the Learning and Skills Council and Train to Gain, would be closed down or have their budgets cut.

The city has improved significantly in recent years – crime dropped, the economy improved, the population stopped declining for the first time in 60 years – but you couldn't see Baltimore's newfound prosperity in Freddie Gray's backyard, or in the gardens nearby.

In the 1920s education was to some extent subjected to the progressive theories held by certain Bolsheviks, but at the same time a basic program (on lines planned by earlier regimes) much improved the population's standard of literacy.

The foundation did not challenge the thrust of the articles, which included allegations that it invested in an oil company responsible for causing health problems by burning off its unwanted gas, in an African country in which the foundation was active in trying to improve the population's health.

With just 14 percent of Liberians having somewhere to call a toilet of their own, huge challenges remain, especially if we are to reach the most vulnerable and marginalized sections of society, and improve the population's well-being.