• But of course in many countries, women tend to be the poorest segment of the population, a status that is further solidified by the existence of patriarchal attitudes.

    FORBES: Microfinance and Patriarchy: 'A Drift Away from Serving Women'

  • The Bombay (Mumbai) meeting is likely to see the anti-globalisation activists focusing on Hinduism's centuries-old social hierarchy, or the caste system, which relegates nearly one-sixth of India's one billion population to the status of low castes known as Dalits, or the oppressed.

    BBC: NEWS | South Asia | Activists gather for Bombay forum

  • The changes could not be explained by other factors - such as mother's age and socioeconomic status or population effects such as changes in air pollution and influenza epidemics.

    BBC: Smoking ban 'cuts premature births'

  • With a very large population that is very status conscious and tens if not hundreds of millions of people that will convert to smartphones over the next few years Apple still has plenty of opportunity in the country.

    FORBES: China Cell Phone Market and Market Shares

  • The report said due to a lack of sunshine in Scotland, there was concern over the vitamin D status of the population in general.

    BBC: Pregnant women 'ignoring vitamin D advice'

  • But she said it had to be considered in the context of the "worrying deficiencies in existing services and the poor health status of the population".

    BBC: 'Major investment' needed in NI health

  • Sherwood Forest Trust, which was awarded Foundation Trust status in 2007, serves a population of 418, 000 people across Nottinghamshire as well as parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

    BBC: Interim chief executive Dr Mark Goldman

  • Sherwood Forest was awarded foundation trust status in 2007 and serves a population of more than 400, 000 people across Nottinghamshire as well as parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

    BBC: Sherwood Forest NHS Trust reveals ?1bn PFI overspend

  • The Sherwood Forest trust was awarded foundation trust status in 2007 and serves a population of more than 400, 000 people across Nottinghamshire as well as parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

    BBC: Sherwood Forest NHS trust debt increases by ?2m

  • By comparison, 81.4% of people in Cardiff said they were in good health and it is thought a younger population partly explains the city's apparent healthy status.

    BBC: Census 2011: South Wales Valleys rank bottom for health

  • Also hurting the plaintiff's case, according to Campagnino and others, was the lack of similar damages across the population of light cigarette purchasers, making class action status difficult.

    FORBES: Tobacco Doesn't Have To Turn Over A New Leaf

  • The population increase is also expected to damage Lamu's status as a world heritage site.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Across South Africa perhaps a quarter of the population is HIV-positive, but fewer than 5% know their status.

    ECONOMIST: A doctor in your pocket

  • Cheap, widely distributed bandwidth and advanced networking technologies are divorcing an ever-growing segment of the population from traditionally "real" constraints like geography and socio-economic status.

    FORBES: Reshaping Reality

  • President Boris Trajkovski's plan offers rebels incentives to disarm and acceleration of constitutional reforms to improve the status of Albanians, who make up 30 percent of the population.

    CNN: Rebels extend Macedonia cease-fire

  • The eel population was no longer sustainable, despite having been recently granted protected geographical indication status, he said.

    BBC: Sustainability of indigenous fish stocks

  • According to a Pew Hispanic Research survey conducted in January, two-thirds of Hispanics expect to improve their financial status in 2012, while just over half can say the same in the general population.

    FORBES: Big Data Shows The Growing Influence of Hispanics Will Change Business Models

  • Despite its status as a protected national park, sustainable management of the Juniper ecosystem remains threatened by the population intrusion, poverty, poor governance and the dependence of local communities on forest for goods and services.

    UNESCO: NATURAL SCIENCES

  • Although the researchers took into account a wide range of extenuating factors, including diet and exercise regimens, smoking, alcohol consumption, body mass index, and marital status, it's possible that people who drink coffee differ from the rest of the population in as-yet unidentified ways that make them less vulnerable to disease and early death.

    CNN: Coffee drinking linked to longer life

  • Unsurprisingly, the inhabitants - who say the population is "around 16" - do not take kindly to outsiders arriving and questioning their new official status.

    BBC: Island Roy gets island status

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