China abandoned this policy for the one-child policy because it was so anxious for speedy economic growth, and the irony of this is that this lopsided, too male, too old population it has created is going to depress future economic growth and quench China's dynamism.
In his ominously titled book, "Are We Rome?" Cullen Murphy noted that the senatorial aristocracy of the ancient world — "by one estimate two thousandths of one percent of the population" — was fine with a lopsided household income.
Mr. Menendez is expected to win a lopsided majority of votes from the state's growing Hispanic population.
The DPJ says evicting the ruling party will break the stranglehold on the budget held by mandarins, giving it freedom to cope with Japan's ageing population, the low birth-rate and a dangerously lopsided, export-oriented economy.
Arreguín-Toft was analyzing conflicts in which one side was at least ten times as powerful — in terms of armed might and population — as its opponent, and even in those lopsided contests the underdog won almost a third of the time.
It is vital that they are kept onside because if they go, the army backed transition government will look very lopsided and unrepresentative of large swaths of Egypt's Islamist supporting population.
