Sentence examples for population flight from inspiring English sources

Monterrei is a forlorn place, where population flight has turned some villages into ghost towns.

There is scant evidence, for example, that the wiring of rural America has done anything to make Mr. Gates's prediction about population flight come true.

"YOU Gotta Be Tough" was a popular T-shirt slogan worn by Clevelanders during the 1970s, a grim period marked by industrial decline, large-scale population flight and an urban environment so toxic the Cuyahoga River actually caught on fire.

For example, in the case of the USA, Cullen and Levitt (1999) analyze the phenomenon of population flight from city centers to surrounding suburbs, and find that an increase in various crimes leads to a significant decline in cities' population.

Many of those places don't currently have good access to medical care, and the population flight from these regions could make it even harder to help the most vulnerable.

The court approval of the city's bankruptcy exit plan ends a painful chapter in Detroit history and opens new challenges as it grapples with urban blight, population flight and the decay of businesses.

Very well aware of such a rapidly dwindling population, Honor Flight Austin has been flying Texas World War II veterans by the hundreds to our nation's capital.

But it's home to just 7% of the country's population, economic flight having been a fact of life here for generations.

Yet few professional groups have been more stereotyped than stewardesses, and the playful, startling photographs in this book do little to counter the notion that rather than representing a cross section of the population, female flight attendants are all pretty, perky fashion plates.

Crumbling buildings, widespread decay and a population in flight make for a depressing landscape.

The representation of lepidopteran superfamilies in the fossil record varies considerably, and likely depends on biological peculiarities such as the habitat frequented, extent of geographically delimited population size, flight ability, and other mostly dispersal-related attributes of particular lineages.