Quotes About Demography

the Sangam Tamil corpus is essentially a literature of diverse landscapes and a plural demography. Sangam texts stand witness to the plural social systems, polity, cultural ethos and ideology of the early Tamils. At the same time, they also represent some of the 'carried forward' memories that probably emulate the ideologies of the IVC [Indus Valley Civilization], including its inherent pluralism.

Census data is used to determine more than $675 billion in federal funding; it is a demographic Rosetta Stone that is referenced in the drawing of congressional districts, each states number of Electoral College votes and the application of civil rights laws, including the Voting Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act.

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

Avec le Néolithique, les hommes ne sont plus seulement prédateurs, ils deviennent producteurs. Ce n'est plus la carrying capacity de l'environnement qui limite leur nombre, mais leur capacité à produire, capacité qui évolue rapidement. Agriculture et élevage entraînent une expansion démographique spectaculaire.

The United States is virtually an island nation bordered by two oceans and the thinly peopled Canadian Arctic to the north. Only to its south is it threatened by the forces of Mexican demography.)

Internationalism' is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership.

In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.

To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of certain men but with the processes of choice and preference.

The new element in part III is the headwinds—inequality, education, demography, and debt repayment—that are buffeting the U.S. economy and pushing down the growth rate of the real disposable income of the bottom 99 percent of the income distribution to little above zero.

When I was at school, you could tell the demography of children by how thin they were. You could see by looking at their eyes.

In a country like India, with an ever-changing demography, adaptability is the most important attribute to survive in the industry.

This, to Netanyahu's mind, was why America was so crucial: it was the only country in the world in which all foreign affairs were primarily domestic; the only country in the world in which—by dint of its immigrant demography and democratic system—the foreign did not exist.

Europe's demography is developing towards a smaller working population in an ageing society.

The limitations of geography, demography and resources which have kept Scotland dependent upon the UK are still there;

Cheap novels and cheap films about cheap people ran concurrent with American boosterism and yahooism and made a subversive point just by being. They described a fully existing fringe America and fed viewers and readers the demography of a Secret Pervert Republic. It was just garish enough to be laughed off as unreal and just pathetic enough to be recognizably human.

I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.

Demography, not democracy, will be the most critical factor for security and growth in the 21st century

The mathematics of Malthus? A quick Internet search led him to information about a prominent nineteenth-century English mathematician and demographist named Thomas Robert Malthus, who had famously predicted an eventual global collapse due to overpopulation.

A demography that is digitising rapidly, and the potential to invest in infrastructure, are the key strengths of India.

La fraternité, Messieurs, réclame pour son exercice une certaine médiocrité démographique.

Books about colonization in early America more typically dwell on themes of politics, trade, religion, demography, and warfare. Without discounting the importance of these topics (for each has a place here) and with no intention of offering a monocausal explanation for complex events, this book argues that sometimes mundane decisions about how to feed pigs or whether or not to build a fence also could affect the course of history.