How to Use demography in a Sentence
demography
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Despite the culture war rhetoric, that’s largely not the case for demography.
— Bryan Walsh, Vox, 18 July 2024 -
If the articles go, it is feared to clear the decks for the centre to alter the demography of the state.
— Riyaz Wani, Quartz India, 4 Aug. 2019 -
Yet the gap between City and Bury is one of demography as well as footballing wealth.
— The Economist, 29 Feb. 2020 -
Her slide in the polls is reflected in nearly all of the state’s demography.
— Melanie Mason Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021 -
But then, as now, the demography in question shows a vast center of the country that does not fall into one of these groups.
— Kyle Sammin, Washington Examiner, 12 Nov. 2020 -
These stats show Kerala is a study in contrasts as far as demography goes.
— Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 7 Jan. 2020 -
So far, though, Texas has mainly been proof that demography is not destiny.
— The Economist, 12 July 2018 -
To a certain extent, demography dictates the hegemony of the old in Japan.
— New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021 -
The Phoenix sprawl foreshadows the fractured demography to come.
— Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2012 -
In Britain and America, at least, demography is against them.
— The Economist, 4 July 2019 -
About two-thirds of pupils score as well or better in a nationwide maths test than demography would predict.
— The Economist, 22 July 2017 -
The name of the project comes from the blue concentric circles drawn in Pes and Poulain's demography work that highlighted villages with longer lifespans.
— Megan Taros, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2022 -
The old liberal idea that the new demography is progressive destiny did not work out as planned.
— Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 26 Sep. 2017 -
The power of demography is bestowing on the United States a great strategic gift in the Asia-Pacific.
— Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 8 May 2024 -
The remaining 30 or so roles, there’s no reason why those minor roles can’t match or reflect the demography of where the story is taking place.
— Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 5 Mar. 2018 -
Measuring demography in the Balkans is difficult: apart from those for births and deaths, data are hard to come by.
— The Economist, 22 Aug. 2020 -
The genetics and this population demography data aren't the only holes in the pupfish's too-good-to-be-true tale.
— Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2014 -
A lot of Japan’s long-term weakness has to do with demography, has to do with extremely low fertility.
— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Asia, 3 June 2024 -
This changed the local demography to support Tehran’s planned land corridor through Syria and Iraq.
— Naftali Bennett, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2017 -
Most of the riot’s victims were Muslims; the demography of the state was transformed, with most Muslims crowded into ghettos.
— Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019 -
Through testing, scientists found that the spread of the disease was not a result of recent evolution, but changes in demography.
— Daniel Fernandez, Smithsonian, 4 June 2018 -
The explanation has a lot to do with changing demography.
— The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018 -
Ukrainians understand their demography by referencing the river’s left and right banks; right being to the west and left to the east looking downstream.
— Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024 -
The balance of power between the Money People and workers will change because of demography.
— Scott Burns, Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2021 -
That is something the local Muslim population has long feared will change its demography, culture and way of life.
— Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2019 -
But in this case, demography is no match for geography.
— Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023 -
The three main ones relate to demography, migration and changing labour markets.
— The Economist, 12 July 2018 -
Afghanistan's society, demography and culture has undergone wholesale changes in the past 20 years -- but all of it is fragile, experts warn.
— Rob Picheta, CNN, 2 Sep. 2021 -
The couple met at Penn State, where the bride received a master’s degree in sociology and demography and the groom a Ph.D. in mathematics.
— New York Times, 14 May 2017 -
For years, many Democrats have presumed demography as destiny, believing that Latinos would come to vote for them with the same kind of consistency that Black voters do.
— Jennifer Medina, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2020
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