Sentence examples for third of citizens from inspiring English sources

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Are they really willing to abandon the third of citizens who can never join their homeowning democracy?

Less than a third of citizens have somewhere to go if a typhoon strikes – with private housing making up the bulk of evacuation centres.

But concerns rest over the way that the deportations are being carried out and the effect they will have on Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world where at least a third of citizens live in poverty".They way they are [deporting the Yemenis] is brutal," says an international aid worker who asked not to be named.

Although they are not regulated and quality is questionable some surveys suggest almost a third of citizens prefer medicine sellers over "formal sector practitioners" [ 31].

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But they should worry, too, about the employment rate: just one-third of citizens have full-time jobs; so each worker supports two others, and there are as many people on some form of benefit as in permanent employment.

"In Liberia, because government presence is often minimal, when authorities do something, people believe it must be really important, and listen". A more alarming finding is that one-third of citizens polled in Monrovia report that Ebola survivors have faced eviction and harassment in their communities.

The Louisiana operations are the first of Citizens' four gas properties to be sold, the company said.

Across the continent, opinion surveys show that more than two-thirds of citizens approve of term limits for their heads of state.

The report, based on a yearlong study by the Open Society Institute, a leading nonprofit organization active in the region, said three-fourths of citizens in the candidate states believed that most or all of their public officials were corrupt.

Mo Ibrahim, Sudanese-born telecoms businessman, founder and chair of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, said the improvement reflected a positive trend for two-thirds of citizens, but that the biggest challenges were security.

In India, by contrast, the presidential election was such a huge logistical challenge that it went on for weeks, allowing more than 500 million people to take part – a full two-thirds of citizens with the right to vote.

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