An important aspect related to the spatial distribution of population is the pressure that large population concentrations exercise on natural resources.

There is population pressure and economic pressure related to cattle raising, for instance and competition for ever scarcer resources, such as land and water.

In Africa, because you didn't have these cities, you didn't have that CCR5 population pressure mutation.

Now that's important, though, because if there's a lot of fishing pressure, that population doesn't get replenished.

Increasing pressure on agricultural land due to a growing world population has led to encroachment on forest reserves.

We're replicating it in other parts of Africa, around other wilderness areas which are faced with extreme population pressure.

The region's multinational population lives under constant pressure from the separatist regime's propaganda and under the surveillance of its security structures.

Against a background of sustained population growth, the accelerating deterioration of ecosystems has been leading to steadily rising pressure on natural resources.

It has practised every form of racial discrimination and exerted pressure and intimidation in order to impose its Israeli identity on the population.

And that mutation was passed on to their kids because they're the ones that survived, so there was a great deal of population pressure.

Saudi Arabia asserts that an education programme of the type proposed would alleviate pressure on natural resources that would otherwise result from population growth.

Depriving the remaining Serb population of power at the height of winter further discourages returns and brings additional pressure on the Serbs to leave Kosovo and Metohija.

Based on the study a report Prostitution. Social risks and economic pressure was compiled, which showed that 2 3 of the population support the current law that prohibits pimping.

And put the pressure where the pressure needs to be put.

One of the key challenges that farmers have to deal with entails the pressure to provide food for a world population that will double to reach 9 billion people by the year 2050.

Rapid ageing of the population, with a shrinking labour force, will impose pressure on public expenditure on pensions as the number of retirees increases while the number of contributors to pension funds becomes smaller.

Uganda mentioned that population pressure leads to changes in land use practices that contribute to climate change and climate variability, and projected that impacts of climate change will be severe on densely populated areas.

Forget the pressure.

However, as the predicted population growth materializes in the developing world, the pressure on local environments resulting from the increased production of energy will rise considerably, as will the amount of greenhouse gas pollutants released.

The pressure was tremendous.

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The former includes indirect factors such as population pressure, socioeconomic and policy factors, and globalization phenomena such as distortions to international food markets, and direct factors such as land use patterns and practices and climate related processes.

(iii) Pressure sensors shall, where possible, be subject to a minimum pressure force appropriate for the intended target.

That will put more pressure on the country s already limited stock of agricultural land. Educating young Malawians, especially girls, and making contraceptives widely available, would do much more to slow population growth than a few inter country adoptions.

You need a pressure suit.

High pressure builds over India.

I have high blood pressure.

I work best under pressure.

My blood pressure is low.

Tom has low blood pressure.

Tom has high blood pressure.

You couldn't handle the pressure.

Reducing demographic pressure on forests.

This year, Cuba is manufacturing or importing 3 million pressure cookers and the same number of electric rice cookers for distribution to every nuclear family at subsidized prices, with the aim of improving the living conditions of the population.

The atmospheric pressure of the Mars is very low, only 1 of the Earth's surface atmospheric pressure, with high uncertainty.

The bridge crashed under the pressure.

It's pressure sensitive, you can notice.

Pressure can make everything whole again.

Just be aware of the pressure.

We have wireless blood pressure cuffs.

Could you check the tire pressure?

Let me take your blood pressure.

Venus' air pressure is very high.

Venus' atmospheric pressure is very high.

The Club of Rome s monumental book The Limits to Growth came out in 1972, with a picture of the earth on its cover. The book, written by a team of scientists, predicted disastrous shortages and mass starvation due to population pressure.