302 Verbs to Use for the Word populations

Tabriz is the capital of Azerbaijan, a province where the majority of the population is Turkish by language; and beyond, across the River Aras, lies the Russian province of Baku, also containing a large Turkish-speaking population and the vital oilfields.

I do not know whether the United States could support a population everywhere as dense as that of Belgium; so I will suppose that, with ordinary improvement in cultivation and in the industrial arts, we might support a population half as dense as that of Belgium,and this is no doubt an extremely moderate supposition.

The following April Broken Tooth's mate had four little baby beavers, and each of the other mothers in the colony increased the population by two or three or four.

There was no nonsense about the Belgian General; stern and just, but very strict, he brought the German population to heel and kept them there.

On July 9 the committee again reported, maintaining the principle of their recommendation, while modifying its details, and the debate then turned upon the question to what extent the negro slaves should count in estimating population for the purposes of proportionate representation in the lower House.

They arrived at some bohios, which formed the population of a chief, called Chiapes, who had prepared to defend the pass with arms.

A resident of this country reduces the population of Salee as low as two or three thousand.

With all these drawbacks, I was glad to find the population, although dirty, decidedly friendlyrather too much so, indeed; for the little whitewashed room was crowded to overflowing the greater part of the day with relays of visitors, who apparently looked upon us as a kind of show got up for their entertainment.

But it may be confidently assumed that the things brought up will very frequently be zoological novelties; or, better still, zoological antiquities, which, in the tranquil and little-changed depths of the ocean, have escaped the causes of destruction at work in the shallows, and represent the predominant population of a past age.

The various tribes brought under our jurisdiction by these enlargements of our boundaries are estimated to embrace a population of 124,000.

It is the third largest town on the island, having a population of 25,000, the majority of whom are white.

Indeed, these primary conditions of fertility and large habitability appertain to America, as a whole, to such degree, that, with less than half the extent of the Old World, it actually numbers more acres of fertile soil, and can, of course, sustain a larger population. 2.

It is the first modern war waged (except in our own case) by national armies constituting practically the entire fit male population.

Following the invasion and over-running of Belgium by the Germans, the problem of feeding the Belgian population became an urgent one.

Now a very simple operation in arithmetic will show that this means a population of fifteen hundred millions, or more than the population of the whole world at the present date.

We are to view this position as an outpost of the United States, surrounded by strong neighbors and distant from its support; and how far that monopoly which prevents population should here be guarded against and actual habitation made a condition of the continuance of title will be for your consideration.

Chronic warfare, both private and public, periodic famines, and sweeping pestilences like the Black Death,these were the things which formerly shortened human life and kept down population.

He gives the population at that time at 30,000, and the places of worship as follows.

They capture the diseased, wounded and weaker prey thus letting only the strongest survive and thus maintaining a healthy population and keeping up the genetic quality of their prey species.

The only reason for which Poland could claim Upper Silesia is that it possesses a numerous Polish population, arrived there in comparatively recent times with the intention of finding work, and especially in the mines.

We have raised corn and buckwheat, we have a fertile asparagus bed and onions and pie-plant (enough to supply the entire population of this community) and I can't tell how many other vegetables.

It is true that the introduction of German cookery into France by the Prussians, as you propose, would in a short time decimate the population, but what a fearful precedent it would be!

This activity held the populations in their fidelity, and through fear engaged the wavering to submit to the conditions of peace.

We cannot solve it by making population a basis, because that will give a monstrous importance to the illiterate millions of India and China.

Having participated in the War to a very small extent and with almost insignificant losses, she has, after the War, almost trebled her territory and almost doubled her population.

302 Verbs to Use for the Word  populations