Sentence examples for projection the world from inspiring English sources

According to a UN projection, the world is only a few years away from a historic watershed – when for the first time in human history those aged 65 and over will outnumber those under age 5 (11).

According to the 2008 Revision of the official United Nations population estimates and projections, the world population is projected to reach 7 billion early in 2012, up from the current 6.9 billion (May 2009), to exceed 9 billion people by 2050.

According to IEA projections, the world's coal production and consumption will continue to increase in the future 20 years.

On current projections, the world would go through the 430ppm by 2030, so the report says that emissions cuts must happen soon.

Singing in falsetto is, by definition, a kind of false projection into the world.

What is often forgotten is the projection that the world will have an additional 1.5 billion people by 2030 and almost all of them in the developing world.

A similar combination of cutting social observation and humorous whimsy characterizes John Maier's "Pepsi vs. the Past" (1993), an installation of identical woodcut panels based on the Buckminster Fuller projection of the world in which each land mass is shown in correct proportion.

Thus Hume's treatment of substance is like his treatment of causation, in that he sees both as the projection onto the world of a tendency of our minds either to pass from one thing to another or to associate them in some way.

In recent years, I've found myself frequently citing Johnson when trying to convey the extent of everyday U.S. power projection throughout the world -- an aggressive posturing that consistently goes unnoticed here at home.

The visual projection of the world on our eye is not random either, but highly organized and structured.

Extrapolating past performance, where U5MR drops 2.75 (=55/20) percentage points per year for five more years towards 2015 yields the projection that the world will have attained a 68.75% (=55 + (2.75 × 5)) reduction in U5MR by 2015 meeting the 2015 goal.