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Regardless of rights and wrongs, a population and an area appropriate to a pre-World-War- 1 great power have been, following conquest, ruled against their will by a neighboring people, and have had imposed upon them social and economic controls they dislike.
The number of countries thus favorably situated is small, but their peoples constitute over half of the population of the underdeveloped world.
The adherence of many in the population to the Indian background in their pedigree, and emphasis upon the fact that their ancestors had never been slaves, becomes of prime interest in determining how far these elements promote the self-image of the intermediate status of the group in society.
To maintain their intermediate position in the larger society, it is not only necessary that members of this population be `` visible '', but that their numbers be great enough to be recognized as a separate, distinct grouping or system in society.
In any case `` here in their judgment conditions require '' ( italics added ) they would `` form interim governmental authorities broadly representative of all democratic elements in the population and pledged to the earliest possible establishment through free elections of governments responsive to the will of the people ''.
These cases, for all their rarity, are so dramatic that friends and relations repeat the story until the general population may get an entirely false notion of how often the hymen is a serious problem to newly-weds.
This means that such factors as the health of the parents, particularly the mother, their ability to provide their children with the necessities of life, the degree of population density of a country and the shortage of housing facilities may legitimately be taken into consideration in determining the number of offspring.
Those who, because of population mobility and the reputed desire of employers to train their own employees, would limit vocational education to general rather than specific skills ought to bear in mind the importance of motivation in any kind of school experience.
Algeria has always been a source of inspiration for different painters who tried to immortalize the prodigious diversity of the sites it offers and the profusion of the facets that passes its population, which offers for Orientalists between the 19 < sup > th </ sup > century and the 20 < sup > th </ sup > century, a striking inspiration for a very rich artistic creation like Eugène Delacroix with his famous painting women of Algiers in their apartment or Etienne Dinet or other painters of world fame like Pablo Picasso with his painting women of Algiers, or painters issued from the Algiers school.
Agriculture may create a negative impact on their population due to use of poisons by farmers.
The diverse ethnic communities – the Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, Chokwe, and other peoples – maintain to varying degrees their own cultural traits, traditions and languages, but in the cities, where slightly more than half of the population now lives, a mixed culture has been emerging since colonial times – in Luanda since its foundation in the 16th century.
Here, < sub > n </ sub > denotes the sample mean of the first n samples ( x < sub > 1 </ sub >, ..., x < sub > n </ sub >), s < sup > 2 </ sup >< sub > n </ sub > their sample variance, and σ < sup > 2 </ sup >< sub > n </ sub > their population variance.
Remembering their expensive defeat at the Battle of Vesontio, the Germans withdrew to the Black Forest, concentrating there a mixed population dominated by Suebi.
Mark J. Hudson Professor of Anthropology at Nishikyushu University, Kanzaki, Saga, Japan, said Japan was settled by a " Proto-Mongoloid " population in the Pleistocene who became the Jōmon and their features can be seen in the Ainu and Okinawan people.
By the early 1960s, most of East and Central Africa, where the majority of the Ismāʿīlī population on the continent resided including Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Malagasy, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire, had attained their political independence.
The program was successful in terms of increasing the population of blue foxes, but their predation of Aleutian Canadian geese conflicted with the goal of preserving that species.
Most of the population () speaks German ( 477, 093 or 87. 1 %) as their first language, Italian is the second most common ( 17, 847 or 3. 3 %) and Serbo-Croatian is the third ( 10, 645 or 1. 9 %).
The RAND Corporation's Memorandum 5446-ISA / ARPA states: " the fact that the VC obtain most of their food from the neutral rural population dictates the destruction of civilian crops ... if they ( the VC ) are to be hampered by the crop destruction program, it will be necessary to destroy large portions of the rural economy – probably 50 % or more ".
In the 1880s, he perpetrated a population transfer against the rebellious Ghilzai Pashtuns from their homes in the southern Afghanistan to the North.
One now leads to Aberdour railway station, a beautifully kept and cared for example of a traditional station, in keeping with its role of transporting at least a quarter of the village's working population to their work each day.
It is the largest town in the Vale of Leven, the others being Balloch, Renton, Jamestown and Bonhill ; their combined population is over 20, 000.

population and descendants
A clade is by definition monophyletic, meaning it contains one ancestor ( which can be an organism, a population, or a species ) and all its descendants.
The Maritimes also have a black population who are mostly descendants of African American loyalists or refugees from the War of 1812, largely concentrated in Nova Scotia but also in various communities throughout southern New Brunswick, Cape Breton ( where the black population is largely of West Indian descent ), and Prince Edward Island.
Thus the modern population of Hungary do not feel that they belong in the Western Siberia that the Hungarian Magyars left 12 centuries ago ; and the English descendants of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes do not yearn to reoccupy the plains of Northwest Germany.
They are the descendants of economic migrants that came to Gibraltar after the majority of the Spanish population left in 1704.
The situation is further complicated by the fact that parts of the current Polish population in historical eastern Germany are themselves expellees ( or descendants of expellees ) who were expelled from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union and were forced to leave their homes and property behind as well.
The Church remains a crucial focus of communal life among some of the immigrant population and their descendants.
Today there are an estimated 700, 000 people of Irish ancestry in Argentina, approximately 15. 5 % of the Republic of Ireland's current population ; however, these numbers may be far higher, given that many Irish newcomers declared themselves to be British, as Ireland at the time was still part of the United Kingdom and today their descendants integrated into Argentine society with mixed bloodlines.
A feral cat population, descendants of cats brought by guano miners, wrought disruption to the island's wildlife and vegetation since the 1930s.
While Western Pomerania was being the Germanized, the Germans ( both colonizers and Germanized descendants of Slavic Pomeranians ) started using the words “ Pomeranian ” ( German: Pommersch ; Polish: pomorski ) and “ Pomeranians ” ( German: Pommern ; Polish: Pomorzacy ) referring to their own population.
This English-speaking population in America did not all consist of original colonists, since many returned to England shortly after arriving on the continent, but produced more than 16 million descendants.
After 1836, many were allowed to stay on and their descendants became integrated into the population.
At least 13 % of the population were immigrants from other parts of Former Yugoslavia and their descendants.
The population of Sudan is a combination of indigenous inhabitants of Nile Valley, and descendants of migrants from the Arabian Peninsula.
An 1878 letter documents the " Trouvadore Africans " and their descendants as constituting an essential part of the " labouring population " on the islands.
Their descendants constitute 85 percent of the Bahamian population.
By 2002, these Jews and their descendants constituted about 40 % of Israel's population.
The city is home to significant numbers of all of the country's ethnic groups, although it is the primary home of the Sierra Leone Creole people ( descendants of Liberated Africans, African-Americans and West Indians ) who make up the minority of the population in the city.
Most of the slaves liberated by the squadron chose to settle in Sierra Leone, and Freetown in particular, rather than return home ; thus the population included descendants of many different peoples from all over the west coast of Africa.
The Astrakhan Tatars ( around 80, 000 ) are a group of Tatars, descendants of the Astrakhan Khanate's nomadic population, who live mostly in Astrakhan Oblast.
Other small ethnic groups that make up the 12 % of the white population are descendants of Swiss, Italian, Syrian, Turks, Jews ( Mostly Sephardic ), and the Palestinian ( who migrated in order to escape Christian persecution from the Muslim community of the West Bank ).
Use of the patronymic system is required by law, except for the descendants of those who had acquired family names before 1913 ( about 10 % of the population ).
In the beginning of 2012, people of foreign background and their descendants were estimated to have formed 25 % of the total population.
Immigrants and their U. S .- born descendants are expected to provide most of the U. S. population gains in the decades ahead.

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