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How to use the word capita in a Sentence?

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One of my top priorities will always be to raise the per capita wages of Mississippians, this historic economic development deal does exactly that and will have a remarkable impact on communities across Mississippi.

Tate Reeves

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

All neighborhoodsneed and deserve to be safe, and we must confront rising levels of gun violence, but New York City already has more police officers per capita than nearly every large American city.

Brad Lander

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think most people that come here would say we have better roads, infrastructure, services, our K-12 schools perform higher, we have the number one rated public university system in the country. And we do all that with no state income tax and in fact have the lowest per capita tax burden in the country. And we have over $15 billion in surplus revenue.

Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Virginia's recent debt issues were small potatoes in comparison to its 19th century debt, at the time the Civil War began, Virginia had the largest in any state in the South and Midwest. It was third behind New York and Pennsylvania. Per capita, Virginia's debt was two or three times what Pennsylvania and New York's was. Virginia's modern debt issues under McDonnell pale to what it dealt with historically.

Yet Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Many states are using numbers of diagnostic tests per capita and the proportion of positive test results as key metrics for reopening decisions, so adding a whole bunch of other tests that do not measure the present state of the pandemic to the mix is unhelpful and creates confusion, fortunately, most, though not all, states are reporting The Results separately, which is the data that should be used when making decisions about reopening.

Bill Hanage

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think states like Florida, Georgia and Mississippi, unfortunately are very likely to have high cases and death rates per capita.

Krys Johnson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

First of all, the dysfunctionality of the current health care system is obviously apparent, as I said earlier, there are people who hesitategoing to the doctor. ... Clearly we are not prepared, and Trump only exacerbates the crisis. When we spend twice as much per capita as any other nation, one might expect were gonna have enough doctors all over this country. One might expect were gonna have affordable prescription drugs.

Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Facts First : It is true that the US, at an estimated $ 10,586 per person in 2018, spends twice as much or more per person on health care as Canada( $ 4,974) and most other members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development( OECD) -- but the US does not spend twice as much as any other country. Switzerland, at $ 7,317 per capita, and Norway, at $ 6,187 per capita, were well above half the US level in 2018, according to OECD figures. Several other countries were above half more narrowly. Senator Sanders could correctly say the US spends more than twice the OECD average. As we've noted before, though, Senator Sanders has been using the same inaccurate wording for more than a decade, even though that wording has been fact checked as inaccurate since 2009. Trump's tax law and the very richSanders said.

The President

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Australia and Canada are countries that are not known for good climate work. Greenhouse gas emissions per capita are among the highest in the world, as a result of the new investment policy, we sold our holdings of bonds issued by Alberta in the spring. For the same reason, we have recently sold our holdings in bonds issued by the Australian states of Queensland and Western Australia.

Riksbank Deputy Governor Martin Floden

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

[T]he Swiss people are the best practitioners of the ideals of non-aggression. The Swiss national government posts are parttime positions. Most decisions are made at the canton (state) level. Swiss per capita income is the highest in the world, showing that non-aggression pays. How did the Swiss come to adopt a relatively non-aggressive constitution in an aggressive world? In the mid-1800s, they imitated our constitution and stuck with it!

Mary J. Ruwart

added by Normando
4 years ago

We believe China is the most exciting market in general but especially for coffee because... per capita cup consumption is quite low as compared to Asia, right now the overall soluble coffee in China is growing between 3-5% (a year) and we believe that by bringing this exciting new business opportunity we should be able to grow faster than that.

Rashid Aleem Qureshi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Colombia, once again, is showing the world that even in the midst of fiscal constraints, with a per capita income of less than $ 8,000 dollars.

Colombian President Iván Duque

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I was appalled when I looked at the numbers, fluid milk consumption per capita is down by 9.7 percent in the last five years, ice cream consumption is down 3.3 percent. People are just not consuming milk, and its putting the dairy industry in a bad place.

John Urbanchuk

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Australia is far and away the renewable energy superstar in terms of annual per capita deployment.

Andrew Blakers

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

While the falling platinum price has been a major contributor to higher platinum jewelry imports, it should also be noted that lower platinum jewelry retail prices, a stronger United States dollar, a falling platinum-gold price ratio, and higher disposable incomes per capita have pushed imports and demand higher.

Erica Rannestad

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Today the worth of bitcoin is $1 per capita in the world (population).

Bobby Lee

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

On a per capita basis, we are second only to Ontario (Canada's most populous province) for installed solar capacity.

Jim Sparling

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Nepali migrant workers have the lowest per capita income in Qatar, they get exploited the most out of all the migrant workers.

Suryanath Mishra

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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