Sentence examples for spur population from inspiring English sources

The federal government is encouraging immigration to spur population growth, and that means Toronto and other cities must take on new responsibilities for education, child care, health and housing services -- sometimes in multiple languages.

These numbers aren't destiny, of course, and lots of people are already trying to change them: developmental economist warning Africa it's not prepared for the coming boom, European leaders trying to spur population growth, Chinese officials who may overturn the one-child policy and lots of others.

Smith also believed that in the case of an advancing nation, the wage level would have to be higher than the subsistence level in order to spur population growth, because more people would be needed to fill the extra jobs created by the expanding economy.

The number was later eased to 20 millisieverts as some Cabinet members insisted on responding to local officials' concern that the tougher yardstick could spur population flight.

Others suggested that the bait used in lobster traps might spur population growth by providing a steady and abundant source of food to juvenile lobsters, who are small enough to escape the traps.

Economic development has spurred population growth; North Carolina now has nearly 9m people, up from 8m in 2000.

The development after 1950 of the Cape Canaveral aerospace complex, 50 miles (80 km) east, spurred population and economic growth, which were further boosted when Walt Disney World opened in 1971 about 20 miles (30 km) southwest.

In 1865 the Royal Navy designated an existing naval base at Esquimalt (now a suburb of Victoria), on the west side of the harbour, as its Pacific headquarters, further spurring population growth in the region.

I argue that this had important consequences for spurring population growth, facilitating expansion into new territories and the development of social complexity.

By adding foxtail millet, either as a fallback or a late season crop, this agricultural system gained in both risk reduction and yield, possibly spurring population growth and the development of social complexity.

After a decade of high unemployment rates and depopulation, the city's proximity to the Hibernia, Terra Nova and White Rose oil fields has led to an economic boom that has spurred population growth and commercial development.