Sentence examples for sustains a population from inspiring English sources

The city sustains a population of two million but, despite government attempts to provide proper sanitation, more than 90% of the city still lives with open drains.

Fertility rates in the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia and Vietnam exceed 2.1 births per woman — the level that sustains a population — but rates below 1.5 in Singapore and Thailand mean their populations will decline without immigration.

Given that our data have shows that IL-11 sustains a population of cells containing osteoclast precursors, we extended our study to address whether IL-11 exert any effect on the survival of mature osteoclasts.

"When we block migrations, we lose the ability to sustain a population".

It has four enclosures surrounded by a moat, a vast artificial lake, or baray, and could sustain a population of at least 100,000.

Once the government demanded that the businesses generate a profit rather than merely sustain a population, many could not compete with manufacturers abroad.

I see a very high probability that humanity will sustain a population of at least 9 to 10 billion for one century or longer.

Its Cambodian heartland sustained a population of at least 1m through rice farming along the shores of the Tonle Sap, and fishing in its waters.

But a sustainable future will require certain industries – not just tobacco and fossil fuels, air travel and automobiles, even baby formula – to become much much smaller to sustain a population of nine billion human beings.

The Aztec capital, built in the middle of Lake Texcoco and linked by causeways to the mainland, was itself an astonishing engineering achievement: it sustained a population estimated at 200,000.

The laying of mines is the 21st-century equivalent of what the Romans did to Carthage: plow salt into the ground so that it could never again sustain a population.