Most population researchers agree that population growth quickly slows with a level of relative affluence. |
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The era was also one of prosperity and affluence, an era of material plenty. |
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Much greater wealth is concentrated in ever-decreasing numbers of centres of affluence. |
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Now, in our new climate of national affluence, wealth and all its trappings seem available to anybody determined enough to have them. |
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The public still seems to have an abiding faith in the American dream of achieving affluence. |
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Social factors, such as affluence and population growth, add further demand and strain on recreation opportunities. |
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Despite problems, the Japanese worker today enjoys a degree of affluence undreamed of a few decades ago. |
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The amount of land devoted to development has mushroomed, thanks to the automobile, improved building technology, and greater affluence. |
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The film is also interesting as an illustration of newfound working class affluence and aspirations. |
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It's a sign of our growing affluence that often where children once rode bicycles they now churn up paths on ear-splittingly noisy motorbikes. |
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The Ilonggo always finds an occasion to show his material affluence and his famous brand of hospitality. |
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But the practice of inhaling fumes from volatile substances is not generally associated with affluence and success. |
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The resplendent Lord bestows affluence on the devotee who offers worship and oblations. |
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Some of them want to flaunt affluence in all sorts of ways while others subdue their inclination to spend or buy property. |
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They have been further homogenized, and secularized, in the postwar years of relative affluence by American-style middle-class consumerism. |
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This tale of two nightclub hostesses unfolds in a deracinated Britain where moral certainties are being eroded by affluence. |
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Ironically, in the prosperous 1990s, expensive cigars enjoyed a resurgence of popularity as a badge of affluence. |
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In the vehemence of their indignation, the general public somewhat forget that poverty and affluence can be equally conducive to moral depravity. |
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Such high-minded scorn for the '90s and the general affluence and calm they represented is an eminently understandable sentiment. |
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The flamboyant court of Burgundy was a spectacular expression of princely prestige and affluence. |
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They contribute generously to village and family enterprises and avoid ostentatious displays of affluence. |
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She gets fired, her husband resigns in solidarity, and the couple moves to the cloudless suburban affluence of Stepford, Connecticut. |
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Western affluence has also become the occasion for moral decline in general and the growth of sexual perversion in particular. |
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He goes on publishing the book and as many of his confederates as choose to go into the conspiracy do so, and they rear families in affluence. |
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This has confounded the expectation that increased affluence, education, and contact with the outside world would reduce the preference for boys. |
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Many such parents are second-generation Americans and have achieved reasonable affluence and career success. |
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For every one rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes indigence of the many. |
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The affluence of its patrons gave it a de facto respectability that eluded less opulent sly-groggeries. |
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This identity, in a culture of affluence, is no better declared than through the biblical image of the steward. |
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These commercials often incorporate the image of pop and movie stars to give their houses the proper sense of glamour and affluence. |
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Yet do our televisions, telephones, videos and other consumer goods represent affluence or poverty? |
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At the core there is affluence, relative security of employment and a cosmopolitan culture based on networking with peers in a global cultural environment. |
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He was cleverer than most everyone else, but he envied the carefree affluence of the rich and fatuous. |
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The world we live in includes enclaves of deep poverty and enclaves of extravagant affluence. |
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Women who aspired to social prominence extended the confinement period before birth and the lying-in period afterward to testify to their affluence and physical delicacy. |
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Our unprecedented affluence also explains much, although its role as a facilitator has been relatively scanted in most discussions of anti-Americanism that I have seen. |
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She was taken out of poverty in a back-to-back house in Bradford, where her divorced mum had to bring up six children, into middle-class affluence. |
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Rough clothing and general shabbiness proclaimed their lack of affluence, yet there was no rowdiness, and no one gave the two overworked barmaids trouble. |
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In the 20-odd years since the founder's pet first appeared on islanders' T-shirts, the Black Dog has become synonymous with a certain beachy New England affluence. |
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Though some might even argue that it's beaucoup plus cocktail than London, what with its particular brand of super flashy footbally affluence and designer glamour. |
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Changes in the family cannot be separated from changes in the structure of the economy, the expansion of the idea of rights, and increasing affluence. |
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This extraordinary yacht exudes a sense of muscular affluence, strength and sexiness. |
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Jazz is linked in the mind of marketers with affluence, but the economics of jazz have never been worse. |
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Even so, in the turbulent Middle East of the Arab Spring Lebanon has been an oasis of calm and relative affluence. |
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Girl power, it seems, never had it so good. Is this wave of affluence a chimera or does it have solid underpinnings? |
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Nonetheless, it was a fundamentally middle class place, not the wall-to-wall display of edgy affluence that it has since become. |
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All these amenities suggest a degree of affluence and urbanity remarkable for a country village in northern New Hampshire during the first half of the nineteenth century. |
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Or was it only possible when a tiny minority of humanity was enjoying affluence? |
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They tend to prove the simultaneous affluence and effluence of the electric matter, a doctrine long since espoused, and very well supported by our author. |
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It set the agenda and was a window into the burgeoning affluence of the postwar generation. |
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Others live amidst distorted values, spiritual poverty, corrupting affluence, and rampant militarism. |
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And in between acts, earnest spokesmodels touted the latest in consumer products that would enable you to conform to the rigors of post-war affluence. |
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Rebecca Greenfield went through a long list, including geography, building code limitations, and affluence. |
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Perhaps in some ineffable way the too-big nature of football helps stimulate American freedom and affluence. |
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The affluence of ordinary consumers manifested itself in a growing market for luxury items, conspicuous consumption, and very short product cycles. |
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Rising expectations were fuelled by increasing affluence and a widening gap between people's experiences in other sectors of consumption and public services. |
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There were no nightclubs, thanks to the baptists, and there was scant affluence to create boating and nights at fancy restaurants. |
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New are emerging, due to growing populations and rising consumer affluence in developing countries. |
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They presume to use the workforce as scapegoats, challenging their acquired rights and almost implying that they are wallowing in affluence. |
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Lee Kuan Yew became Prime Minister, and the country moved from Third World economy to First World affluence in a single generation. |
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The affluence of the merchant class allowed extensive patronage of the arts, and foremost among the patrons were the Medici. |
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Another friend once suggested that affluential describes influence obtained by affluence. |
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The market for residential home construction is benefiting from higher consumer affluence and the advent of longer term mortgage financing, now becoming widely available in Brazil for residential home purchases. |
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That could prompt him to reframe his question: how many planets will it take to satisfy China's needs if it ever achieves profligate America's affluence? |
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A global ethic for AIDS, hunger and poverty will require an epochal change in consciousness, a change that will lead to a preference for community over affluence. |
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It was a rude awakening for generations bred in perpetual affluence, forgetful of how hard others before them had toiled to raise this country to its present level of prosperity. |
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The flip side is that people who live in conditions of affluence have very little sympathy with the suffering and the epidemics of people on the other side of the world. |
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It is the dividing line between the wretched conditions of the banlieues, the suburbs outside the city, and the relative affluence of central Paris. |
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But increased affluence, a trend towards longer holidays, fewer visa conditions and growing numbers of repeat travellers mean that every year more will take foreign trips, and more will venture farther. |
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What I mean by this is that the media and advertisers present a picture of overwhelming affluence, and people who do not achieve this suffer from feelings of helplessness. |
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We have the affluence to open our hearts and homes. |
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Mass affluence has widened horizons and expanded life choices. and the Member States of the European Union belong to the wealthiest countries in the world. |
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But even with such affluence, freshwater is a precious endowment. |
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As for the multitudes of the poor, they continue to live in stark contrast to the affluence of the rich whose advances too often depend on the underdevelopment of others. |
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World populations are growing and affluence is shifting among countries. |
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Income is widely seen as a more discriminating variable for the purposes of identifying areas of affluence or deprivation than is occupation or housing condition. |
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Even if the atmosphere is generally grey and the affluence disappointingly weak, these women are still there, holding peace for an end goal against rivers and mountains. |
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While the poor of the world continue knocking on the doors of the rich, the world of affluence runs the risk of no longer hearing those knocks, on account of a conscience that can no longer distinguish what is human. |
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The rising affluence of the Fifties and Sixties was underpinned by sustained full employment and a dramatic rise in workers' wages. |
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For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. |
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Benefiting from favourable international conditions, he presided over an age of affluence, marked by low unemployment and high if uneven growth. |
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Despite postwar affluence, however, many Belgians continued to live in poverty. |
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Their affluence and attachment to luxury makes military service unpopular. |
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On that score, the affluence of much of the country is a resource. |
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Jazz is now a codeword for sophistication and classiness, even affluence. |
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These baby boomers were associated with privilege and grew older during an extended time of affluence. |
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First, the installation of an elaborate garden emblematizes the excesses of affluence and is the catalyst for a brutal argument between Scott and Maureen. |
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This is one area where a growing westernism, increasing affluence and a huge population will all converge to create a significant market opportunity. |
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There has been growth in the corporate and legal sectors, and increased local affluence has led to an expanding retail sector, including the luxury goods market. |
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The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions. |
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