Sentence examples for population constitutes from inspiring English sources

Tocqueville inferred, wryly, "that the drinking population constitutes the majority in your country, and that temperance is somewhat unpopular".

Arizona's African American population constitutes only a small proportion of the state's total.

"New York's minority population constitutes over two million people," the petition reads, "many of whom are low income and live in neighborhoods where there is an over-representation of facilities that produce air pollution.

There is little need to; the house, dense with the lives of her 14 children and any number of her neighborhood's large Russian immigrant population, constitutes, if not a world of its own, at least an ecosystem.

The indigenous population constitutes some 2.7percentt of Australians, and many live in abject poverty in isolated rural communities, grappling with the connected challenges of lack of education, unemployment, alcoholism and health problems.

"Marginalised, deprived of basic political and economic rights, trapped in the camps, bereft of realistic prospects, heavily armed and standing atop multiple fault lines," a report by the International Crisis Group (ICG) in Lebanon recently observed, "the refugee population constitutes a time bomb".

Black Americans, a mere 13percentt of the population, constitute half of this country's prisoners.

In 2011, black Americans – 12% of the US population – constituted 30% of persons arrested for a property offense and 38% of persons arrested for a violent offense.

Nunn's strategy is partly based on an attempt to take advantage of a demographic shift that has resulted in the Peach State's minority population constitute a large and increasing slice of the electorate.

Put another way, about 46percentt of the prison population constituted whites who are not Hispanic, 41percentt were black, comprising Hispanic and non-Hispanic, and 19percentt identified themselves as Hispanic.

The Makassarese, who account for the majority of the population, constitute a branch of the Malay people and are closely related to the Bugis.