What is "populations"

Usage examples of "populations".

It would leave in place all of the autocracy that has alienated Arab populations, the corruption and cronyism that have impoverished them, and the sectarianism and intrastate animosities that have destabilized them.

The regular confrontations there between coalition aircraft and Iraqi air defenses do allow the Iraqis to make propaganda hay of them--and their absurdly exaggerated claims do continue to influence Arab populations throughout the Middle East.

If the United States were to build up a massive invasion force and the Gulf states did everything they would need to do to keep their populations under control to make such a deployment possible, and then at the last minute we backed down and agreed to new inspections, the Gulf states would wash their hands of us.

In those early days, when the Constitution was being framed, there was nothing to force the small States into a union with those whose populations preponderated.

States, each retaining equal privileges in that union, and not a fusion of the different populations into one homogeneous whole.

In this way the outlying populations have been encouraged to take upon themselves their own governance, and the governing power of the President and his cabinet has been kept within moderate limits.

They came from industrialization and commerce, the growth of populations, of railroads and cities, the rise in value of land, and the greed of businessmen.

Kurdish populations, in practice they were more useful as elements of containment in maintaining pressure on the regime and preventing an Iraqi threat to Kuwait, Jordan, or the Kurdish-held lands of northern Iraq.

These policies in turn prompted a major migration from rural areas to the cities, whose populations were heavily dependent on imported food, as well as government-supplied water, power, and sanitation.

However, Iraq was not known to be one of the fastest-growing populations in the world prior to the Gulf War.

In part, this is a result of growing literacy and the spread of new forms of media such as the internet and satellite TV stations, which provide Arab populations with far more information than was ever the case in the days when their governments had a monopoly on sources of information.

Under the likely circumstances in a future air war against Iraq, when the Iraqis would have better cover and concealment, as well as civilian populations nearby, we must expect air strikes to do worse than they did during Desert Storm, not better.

Officials and royal family members from these countries continue to stress that they believe that Saddam is a great enough long-term threat to them that they are willing to keep control of their own populations for some period of time to make overthrowing him possible, but they do not want to have to do so for one day longer than is absolutely necessary.

To reiterate: the GCC states are nervous about how their populations would react, they know that this would become a greater problem the longer a U.

My strong sense is that what commentators claim about the reaction of the Arab populations has more to do with their own feelings about U.