Sentence examples for over populations from inspiring English sources

All presided over populations whose average age was well below the age of their masters.

When such attacks became more difficult to pull off, al-Qaida developed another strategy: expansion via local affiliates who seize territory and win over populations.

As the authors state, "one result of the current form of globalization is that certain national leaders, both elected and unelected, gain greater powers over populations outside their own nation-states".

Hymenoptera, the most prevalent and successful of insect parasites, exert a profound, if subtle, control over populations of other insects and certain other arthropods groups that might otherwise overpopulate and thus upset their particular ecosystem.

He has doubts about some of the ways that the agencies and private groups whose role it is to watch over populations of wild ducks and geese are going about their business, and muses on how a system that is admittedly working quite well might be improved.

Yuccas that did not waste energy on nectar production to attract other pollinators achieved an advantage over those plants that did; yucca moths that ensured the availability of developing seeds for their offspring by actively pollinating the flowers in which they laid their eggs also gained an advantage over populations that did not do so.

Over-population and inflation are the worst problems.

Over-population in India has overburdened the land, creating geographical conditions which increased the flood damage.

"Over-population and understaffing, yes," said Bob Horton, spokesman for Alabama's prisons.

The bureau projects that the 85-and-over population will exceed 13 million by 2040.

Why doesn't he recognise the role that over-population plays in resource depletion and climate change?