How To Use Populous In A Sentence
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There was a good deal of "enmeshing" there, too, as the majority Black population served as an endless supply of cheap labour for the white elite, and was too populous in any case to be banished holus-bolus to the bantustans.
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The goddesse of warre, called Bellona, had these thre handmaids ever attendynge on her: BLOOD, FIRE, and FAMINE, which thre damosels be of that force and strength that every one of them alone is able and sufficient to torment and afflict a proud prince; and they all joyned together are of puissance to destroy the most populous country and most richest region of the world.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
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Four more people drowned in eastern India on Wednesday and an overflowing river threatened to inundate low-lying areas around Patna, the populous capital city of Bihar state, relief officials said yesterday.
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The world's most populous country is responsible for about 40 per cent of global demand.
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Of course there were birds and beasts, and cages populous with monkeys; and there was an emeu -- the weird bird that can not fly, the Australian cassowary.
In the Footprints of the Padres
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The populous cities in particular became dependent on distant agricultural trade.
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This tide is driven by the two most populous nations in the world.
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One is the most populous nation in the world.
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The most populous is American Fork, Utah, with 27,064 residents.
Fun July 4 facts: Food, flags, fireworks, etc.
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And although your Lordship will doubtless proceed, I must warn you through my experience of European affairs, heedfully, that the reasons that operate in this small presidio, which is surrounded by barbarians and hostile nations, have no place in populous cities.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
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Nigeria is the most populous African country and an economic powerhouse for the continent.
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Indeed, it is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power, can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions, to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of the dungeon.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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Yet it is also the most populous city in Europe to lack its own permanent opera company.
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Nigeria is the most populous African country and an economic powerhouse for the continent.
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All we had to do was pipe water from the underpopulated, rain-rich North to the populous but parched South.
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As they swarm with vermin by night and flies by day23, I frequently made strong objections to these favourite localities: the utmost conceded to me was a fresh enclosure added by a smaller hedge to the outside abattis of the more populous cow-kraals.
First footsteps in East Africa
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The ruins of churches and monasteries fascinated him, but he grieved to find the once populous and opulent capital of Portuguese India absolutely a city of the dead.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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The capital city, Bujumbura, is the populous and most industrialized city.
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After his death, Americans might insist on having some real elections in that populous nation.
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The fighting is just the latest bout of ethnic violence to grip Africa's most populous nation.
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The forms of vicinal location thus far considered presuppose a compact or continuous distribution, such as characterizes the more fertile and populous areas of the earth.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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It was as if he walked in a new and monstrously populous jungle and was unacquainted with its ways and denizens.
CHAPTER XXV
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The world's most populous nation is trying to corner the world's most popular sport.
Times, Sunday Times
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Introduced to western Texas and southern New Mexico in the 1940s, aoudads are now so populous that it is feared that their presence may threaten the native desert bighorn sheep.
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Late last year it looked as if the most populous nation and the most widespread faith were reconciling.
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Being fed up with the madding crowd in one of the country's most populous cities, I wanted to get closer to nature.
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For the past decade the world's most populous country was the main source of demand growth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Being fed up with the madding crowd in one of the country's most populous cities, I wanted to get closer to nature.
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After sheep, the second most populous wildlife were grouse, which regularly flew out in pairs from the undergrowth with a violent batter of wings.
A walk in the back paddock « Mad Dave and Lil
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And yet all this could easily pale into insignificance if the world 's most populous country were to repeat its own history.
Times, Sunday Times
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Egypt was the most populous Arab country, the cultural hub of the area.
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It is, after all, the world's largest democracy and second most populous nation.
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Between the terrace and the distant hills extended a tract of pasture-land, green and well-wooded by its rich hedgerows; not a roof was visible, though many farms and hamlets were at hand; and, in the heart of a rich and populous land, here was a region where the shepherd or the herdsman was the only evidence of human existence.
Henrietta Temple A Love Story
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IT passeth for a general report of what was customary in former times, that the sheriff of the county used to present the judge with a pair of white gloves at those which we call maiden assizes, viz. when no malefactor is put to death therein; a great rarity (though usual in small) in large and populous countries.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.
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India is set in our lifetimes to become the most populous nation on Earth and it has some distinct advantages over its neighbour to the east.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ethnic groups: Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups; the following are the most populous and politically influential: Hausa and Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo (Ibo) 18%, Ijaw 10%, Kanuri 4%, Ibibio 3.5%, Tiv 2.5%
Nigeria
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NigeriaNigeria, Africa's most populous country, is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups; the following are the most populous and politically influential: Hausa and Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo (Ibo) 18%, Ijaw 10%, Kanuri 4%, Ibibio 3.5%, Tiv 2.5%
Ethnic groups
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Yesterday's result means that Africa is the only continent where the most populous nation are the reigning football champions.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of my favourites involves listing the 20 most populous world cities beginning with a given letter.
Times, Sunday Times
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About seven in the evening I got into a chaise on shore, and was driven through the nastiest city in the world, though at the same time one of the most populous, to a kind of coffee-house, which is very pleasantly situated on the brow of a hill, about a mile from the city, and hath a very fine prospect of the river Tajo from
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
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You, all the while, in cities of exile, in that exile that was your detested and chosen instrument, the weapon of your craft, erected your pathless labyrinths, infinitesmal and infinite, wondrously paltry, more populous than history.
Ulysses, Ulysses, soaring through all the galaxies
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The young man was reduced, by the virulence of the humour, to the lowest state of weakness} ampeared a miserable object in the eyes of all the inhabitants of that populous city; and» having fbr many years tried all the re* medics which the art of physick could administer, without re - ceiving any benefit, resolved at last to go abroad to be touched.
Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A.
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Ardent majoritarians may be scandalized by the fact that 51 senators from the least populous states, representing just 17 percent of the nation's population, could defeat a bill.
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The most populous nation on earth is undergoing the most rapid economic growth in human history.
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Because of its strategic location on the Lingayen Gulf in northern Luzon (the country's most populous island), Dagupan was the landing spot for U.S. troops in the Spanish-American War, and for Japanese and U.S. soldiers during World War II.
The Rocky Road to Reform in Manila
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We know that the Three-horned Osmia prefers to haunt the habitations of the Bees who nidify in populous colonies, such as the Mason-bee of the
Bramble-Bees and Others
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The most populous country, China has one of the oldest civilizations on earth.
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Kasubi tombs just outside the capital Kampala are revered by Uganda's most populous tribe, the Buganda.
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The lane was quite populous with wagons and hay-makers – the men in their corduroys and blue hose – the woman in their trim jackets and bright calamanco petticoats.
John Halifax, Gentleman
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On the populous coasts of Sri Lanka and India nobody was aware of the awesome destructive power racing towards them.
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As John Adams put it shortly after the Boston Massacre, soldiers quartered in a populous town will always occasion two mobs, where they prevent one.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Nigeria is the most populous African country and an economic powerhouse for the continent.
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Today he is the Labor premier in Australia's most populous state, with about seven million people.
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It ranks 10th in the world, just behind much more populous nations such as China and Brazil.
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He will wind up his trip in Nigeria, the continent's most populous nation and biggest oil producer.
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But the Los Angeles of 2000 is much more: the megalopolis of California, which itself has emerged since 1960 as by far the nation's most populous state.
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China, the most populous nation of the globe, was in convulsion, its regime still undecided.
Fifteen Years at the World Bank
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We're increasingly interconnected because we're an increasingly populous and increasingly complex world.
Christianity Today
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Lightning strikes, arsonists and relentless hot north winds yesterday fanned bush fires across Australia's most populous state.
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In addition to congressional races, there are also 37 governor's races being decided, including contests in populous states such as California, New York, Texas, Florida Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Republicans win House majority; Democrats retain Senate majority
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Belief in witchcraft is widespread in parts of Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation.
Leave my brethren alone!
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_That the country of D'Elmina, which was formerly very powerful and populous, was in his time so much drained of its inhabitants by the intestine wars fomented amongst the Negroes by the Dutch, that there did not remain inhabitants enough to till the country_.
Some Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of Its Inhabitants An Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade, Its Nature and Lamentable Effects
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THE world's most populous nation is suffering from a shortage - of people.
Times, Sunday Times
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While hypnotic powers are dubious, there can be no doubt that a significant portion of the populous is mesmerized by Obama's rhetorical skills.
Discourse.net: The Right Wing Unhinged
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These opportunities presented themselves when grain, destined for towns or populous regions, moved through areas themselves suffering from food shortage.
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About them lay long launds of green grass dappled with celandine and anemones, white and blue, now folded for sleep; and there were acres populous with the leaves of woodland hyacinths: already their sleek bell-stems were thrusting through the mould.
The power of spring flowers
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Germany is the most populous nation in the European Community and has the largest economy.
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All this despite the fact that Scotland is one of the least populous nations in Europe.
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He represented the least populous state in the nation, and one of the poorest.
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This includes many populous areas, and dugites are a relatively frequent cause of snakebite in this area.
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The radio spot - running in populous northern Virginia, home to the bulk of the state's moderate and independent voters - features a man and a woman chatting about the Virginia governor's race.
McDonnell plans to restore the 'dark ages,' ad claims
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Yesterday's result means that Africa is the only continent where the most populous nation are the reigning football champions.
Times, Sunday Times
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India will overtake China to become the most populous country in the world.
The Sun
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This culture was exported to Crete, where it flourished in populous, well-organized cities, multistoried palaces, networks of fine roads, productive farms, an almost-modern system of drainage and irrigation works, a rich economy with high living standards, and the lively and joyous artistic style so characteristic of Cretan life and sensibility.
Dr. Jean Houston: Moving Beyond the Pathology of History: Why We Need a Shift in Human Consciousness
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But where was the threat from the world 's most populous rugby nation?
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Yesterday's result means that Africa is the only continent where the most populous nation are the reigning football champions.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bandeirante wrote: "The ruins well showed the size and grandeur which must have been there and how populous and opulent it had been in the age in which it flourished.
Signs of the Times
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In addition the congressional races, there are also 37 governor's races being decided, including contests in populous states such as California, New York, Texas, Florida Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Voters cast their ballots in 2010 elections
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Most people believe that the Aurora populous is just a bunch of low class losers with no education and no ambition to improve anything.
Health Reform | Obama's New Strategy, Democrats, Republicans
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Bangladesh, one of the most populous spots on earth, is virtually the delta of the Brahmaputra and Ganga river systems, where numerous streams and rivers debouch to the Bay of Bengal.
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Four years older than John Peter of Bowhay, and seven older than Will, he was a bon vivant fond of dining and dicing: a suitable escort for his country cousins in Europe's most populous city.
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We're increasingly interconnected because we're an increasingly populous and increasingly complex world.
Christianity Today
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A populous generation sees its subsets defining their own demographics by what they are not as much as by what they are.
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Page 174: “Countries are populous, not in proportion to the number of people whom their produce can cloath and lodge, but in proportion to that of those whom it can feed.”
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
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At Aginis he entered the Pasi-Tigris, but he proceeded only about nine miles to a village which he describes as populous and flourishing; here he determined to wait, till he received further information respecting the exact route of the army.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson
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In most countries, major moneymakers and head offices for large companies are found in populous areas - especially in or near the capital.
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Indonesia, with 216 million people, is the fourth most populous country in the world.
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Their different hats, dresses and robes may indeed have represented the diversity of the world's most populous nation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Corruption has spawned popular anger and instability lurks in the world's most populous nation.
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Come campaign season, however, the Baltimore politicians fall over each other wooing voters in populous Montgomery and Prince George's counties and other Washington suburbs.
First Click, Maryland:Taking credit for Md. slots a political crapshoot
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These are natural questions from people who have spent their lives in populous western cities.
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There is a touch of humanity in it, and always some germ of sympathy will bourgeon and bloom around the once populous abodes of men, whether they were tenanted by the pure or by the impure.
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
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Indonesia is the fifth most populous country in the world.
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The results confirm the fact that coastal seas close to populous and industrialised areas are most impacted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Britain ceased to be a major power because we blew our cash saving the world from Germany in WWI and WWII (including reluctant America), and because after WWII the US, large portions of the UK populous, and most in the effected countries wanted the disassembly of the Empire.
The Economist Still Hates To See Humans in Space - NASA Watch
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In California Dianne Feinstein became the first woman to win a major party gubernatorial nomination in the country's most populous state.
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In the intervening months the number of new polio cases has exploded, spreading from Kano across Africa's most populous country.
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Msuwa, a village situated in a populous district, having in its vicinity no less than five other villages, each fortified by stakes and thorny abattis, with as much fierce independence as if their petty lords were so many Percys and Douglasses.
How I Found Livingstone
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This is a very big city of course, it's the biggest city in the state, it's the fourth most populous city in the US.
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He has held together his vast and populous country over the past 30 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bolt won three gold medals in grand style at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and three more at the 2009 world championships in Berlin and plans to chase three more here at the world championships that begin Saturday in the much more obscure city of Daegu, which is only the fourth most populous city in South Korea but whose representatives offered financial guarantees that were reassuring to the sport's governing body.
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It's the tenth most populous city in the world and continues to expand like anything.
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What is life like in populous cities and remote towns villages?
Palin set to let the tweets 'fly'
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The human race is populous enough without trying to preserve every single life.
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Because they oviposit at high tide, their eggs incubate out of water, buried in the sand of some of the most heavily used urban beaches in this populous area.
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Who wouldn't want to turn the world's most populous nation away from authoritarianism?
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Decentralization has long been advocated by the political and economic elite in the West as a means of wrenching power from the more populous Eastern provinces.
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There was a good deal of "enmeshing" there, too, as the majority Black population served as an endless supply of cheap labour for the white elite, and was too populous in any case to be banished holus-bolus to the bantustans.
West Bank apartheid: 2008
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By then, India will have overtaken it as the most populous nation.
Times, Sunday Times
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You'll be happy to know that the penguin population is thriving and gentoos were the most populous distribution!
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Organised religion in this, the world's most populous Muslim country, is often seen as little more than a veneer on the surface of society.
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The drop in prices was driven by a 5.4 per cent decline in Sydney, the most populous city.
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Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, is watching events with particular interest.
