Sentence examples for portion of community from inspiring English sources

It directs a portion of community branch earnings toward grant making, giving local leaders the opportunity to become active players in their communities.

"There is some cynicism among people that some portion of community service is prompted by students interested more in résumé-building," said Richard G. Niemi, professor of political science at the University of Rochester.

Due to the Hope Credit, which is large enough to cover a good portion of community college costs, students from very low-income families who go that route could accumulate enough in Roth IRAs to make an affordable transfer to a four-year state school feasible.

Household transmission of infectious gastroenteritis is likely to account for a substantial portion of community incidence.

According to the NIH, herd or community immunity occurs "When a critical portion of a community is immunized against a contagious disease, most members of the community are protected against that disease because there is little opportunity for an outbreak.

If a Stage 3 event worked as planned, "we'd have to impose rotating outages to small portions of communities across all our service area," said Tom Boyd, a spokesman for Southern California Edison, which supplies power over 50,000 square miles in Central and Southern California, including much of suburban Los Angeles.

Unequal-fitness and obligatory commensal communities displayed a layered pattern in which the top portion of a community was dominated by one partner.

Emily doesn't have time to help because she is starting the latter portion of her community service for kicking Orange Jumpsuit Spencer's ass last episode during the garbage-collecting community service portion.

But I wonder if the approach will only appeal to a narrow portion of the community".

Sudhir Venkatesh, a professor of sociology at Columbia University, said Mr. Manning and his congregation of about 150 people do represent feelings shared by a large portion of the community.

Despite Hawkins' best efforts to advertise the show widely, a glance around the room could tell you who the "narrow portion of the community" referred to.