Sentence examples for supported a population from inspiring English sources

August 2006 Another study claims that Flores is too small to have supported a population without immigration from other islands - so they could not have evolved in isolation.

Of the 600 or so cliff dwellings in the park, 75percentt consist of five rooms or fewer; at Cliff Palace, 150 rooms and 23 ceremonial chambers, or kivas, supported a population of 150 people.

It concluded that, alongside the hen harrier and the merlin, the gull was now a "qualifying species" within the Bowland SPA because it "supported a population of European importance".

At its apogee (c. 500 ce), it encompassed some 8 square miles (20 square km) and supported a population estimated at 125,000 200,000, making it, at the time, one of the largest cities in the world.

Yet in 1519 it supported a population of 1,000,000 to 1,500,000; i.e., a density of 500 people per square mile (200 per square kilometre), the densest population in Meso-American history.

At their peak in 1953, the islands supported a population of more than 1,000 people and the Foreign Office paper suggests that a decision on whether any of Chagossians are allowed to return to the British overseas territory will hang on the costs to the Treasury of maintaining a community and whether they can be self-sufficient.

The game, a spiritual successor to Populous, challenges players to grow and support a population of followers who can then interact with the worlds developed by other players.

As a humanitarian, I moved to South Sudan to support a population that has endured war for generations.

Naoshima, about three square miles in size, supports a population of about 3,300.

"The arid Western lands simply cannot support a population this large without significant damage," Mr. Salazar said from Washington in a conference call with reporters.

This corner of Uganda and the DRC contains some of the richest wildlife on Earth, while also supporting a population afflicted by war and poverty.