Sentence examples for sweeping population from inspiring English sources

In a recent interview, President Paul Kagame said he was preparing a sweeping population control program, to be unveiled in the coming months, that would aim to cut Rwanda's birth rate by at least half.

Similarly, a report issued by Unicef on Tuesday said that unrelenting violence, sweeping population displacement and damage to infrastructure and essential services caused by the Syrian conflict risk leaving an entire generation of children scarred for life.

BEIJING — Thirty years after it introduced some of the world's most sweeping population-control measures, the Chinese government continues to use a variety of coercive family planning tactics, from financial penalties for households that violate the restrictions to the forced sterilization of women who have already had one child, according to a report issued by a human rights group.

Contagious cancer has been sweeping through populations of Tasmanian devils, killing most of the adults.

"We have largely forgotten what it is like to face an epidemic sweeping through a population".

The reason for this behavior is that multiple beneficial mutations arise on different genetic backgrounds simultaneously and compete with one another for sweeping through the population.

On July 1 , 1665 the lord mayor and aldermen of the city of London put into place a set of orders "concerning the infection of the plague," which was then sweeping through the population.

However, if beneficial mutations under strong selection occur frequently, they will coexist within a population (without sweeping to fixation); this can increase population diversity and result in a branched evolution pattern [ 55, 56].

In natural populations, we have found this to be the case, with DObsSV sweeping rapidly through populations over the past decade.

Because of its sweeping poverty, population density, and poor sanitation, India has proved a particularly tough environment in which to wipe out the virus, with the country delivering an estimated 1 billon doses of polio vaccine each year.

I see buprenorphine sweeping through the recovery population.