population control

基本解释

How does population control help the West acquire minerals?
人口控制怎样帮助西方获得矿物质呢？
Population control is not just an innovation from the Orient, however; it also has an impressive pedigree among the sages of the West.
但是人口控制并不只是一项来自东方的伟大发明；西方的“伟人”们对此的贡献亦有斑斑史迹。
We should be concerned, not primarily because ice is melting (if it is), but because global warming—or at least the idea of it—is responsible for a renewed interest in population control.
我们应该担心的，主要不是冰在融化（就算是吧），而是全球变暖——或者是担心全球变暖——重新引起了对人口控制的兴趣。

As the population of the North had grown large,he noted, that part of the country had seized political and economic control.
Islamist insurgents want the Thai government to relinquish control over the south,home to largely ethnic Malay population.

Nevertheless, China did add dialog by introducing the topic of population control, a clear agenda item within the U.N.
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Of course, it may also bring population control by a different and less welcome route—dehydration.
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a policy of attempting to limit the growth in numbers of a population, esp in poor or densely populated parts of the world, by programmes of contraception or sterilization