Sentences with phrase «as the minority report»

I'm not entirely sure why Peter Stormare was in attendance here — his role seemed fairly innocuous, particular compared to his character work in more mainstream films such as Minority Report and Constantine.

Here's a link to a document released a couple of days ago (July 18) as a minority report of the U.S. Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee.

Not exact matches

The relative lack of minority employees at Twitter was particularly galling, say Luckie and Miley, because the platform had become such an important tool for the global black community, through a vibrant and dedicated subset of users known as Black Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMatter.

Users were reporting everyday activities of members of minority groups in their neighborhoods as «suspicious.»

After one of those briefings, Senate minority leader Harry Reid wrote FBI Director James Comey, citing reports of meetings between a Trump adviser (a reference to Page) and «high ranking sanctioned individuals» in Moscow over the summer as evidence of «significant and disturbing ties» between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin that needed to be investigated by the bureau.

As usual, the New Democratic Party and the Liberal Party presented their own minority reports, with recommendations that reflect the policy agenda of their respective parties.

Zabeen, you were right on the money when you predicted that the report would have important implications for visible minorities, as well as for businesses right across Canada.

The fact that none of these family offices reported targeting direct or co-investments above $ 5 million is also telling, as these California family offices unanimously prefer to make minority and small - to - middle - market deals, rather than executing some of the large deals that have been done by family offices and co-investment groups in recent years.

According to the report which cites sources from the administration, the ban will mostly focus on Muslim refugees from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen as it includes an exemption for «religious minorities» who are being persecuted.

The report agrees with the US State Department assessment in October, which pointed to the «new phenomenon» of non-state terrorism as the biggest threat to minority Christian communities.

Russian Protestants have been more ambivalent about the legal fate of the fellow minority group, as CT previously reported.

And as organizations such as ISIS, Boko Haram, or al - Shabaab push out existing governmental structures, the lack of organized law enforcement leads to «minorities suffering at the hands of violent groups,» the report said.

Pierre Berton, The Smug Minority (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968), reported in William A. Sadler, Jr., «Creative Existence: Play as a Pathway to Personal Freedom and Community,» Humanitas, 5 (Spring 1969), 58.

The Christian minority, CBN reports, is praying for Ahok as well as for Anies, who they hope will meet the standards his predecessor set and govern in a way that is fair to all Indonesians.

ADF described Christians living in India as an «ill - treated minority», adding there are reports of religious minorities in some parts of the country suffering violence on a «daily» basis.

In the history of art the attempt to achieve realism virtually as an end in itself is a minority report, Greco - Roman classicism and the Renaissance being the lone examples.

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By 1990, the cultural diversity began to change slightly as shown by census reports of 94.8 % Caucasian residents and 5.2 % minority residents, with the largest minority group being Asian (3.7 %).

Few people outside of the trans community paid much attention to the report — perhaps unsurprisingly, as despite the committee's vague estimate that there are 650,000 people in the UK who are «gender incongruent to some degree», this is still very much a niche issue affecting a minority of the population.

Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos has seized on today's scathing IG report on AEG as proof that state government is suffering mightily under the «arrogance» of single - party rule.

Often portrayed as dominating the sex industry, the scale of the victims of human trafficking represents a minority of sex workers in the UK: less than 10 % of female sex workers (2600 out of 30000) working indoors have been trafficked according to the Association of Chief Police Officers» 2010 report.

Reports that Trump personally interviewed Geoffrey Berman, who on Jan. 5 began his tenure as interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, are «deeply disturbing» and should disqualify him as a nominee to permanently run the office, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

While I've not done a comprehensive review of all 2014 races, I did take a look at the Kentucky Senate campaign, and my analysis shows that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has outspent his challenger, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, on digital by more than three - to - one as of the June 30, 2014 campaign finance reports.

As reported by the Aspen Times, Bloomberg stated that government needs to remove firearms from young minority males.

But Walcott and other officials questioned the report's math, arguing that the new schools, on average, serve as many or more minority students and students with disabilities than the schools they replaced.

Updated: As Liz Benjamin reports, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos said on Capital Tonight that Senate Democrats are now in debt about $ 2.1 million.

Breaking news story reported first in the Rockland County Times on January 5, 2012 BY DYLAN SKRILOFF The same position that only two years ago County Legislator and Minority Leader Frank Sparaco referred to in a series of Rockland County Times articles as being a no - show job paid off as political patronage to former Chair -LSB-...]

As The Washington Post recently reported, «the Trump administration is reducing the role of the federal government in fighting discrimination and protecting minorities by cutting budgets, dissolving programs and appointing officials

Twice as many ethnic minority women live in poverty in the UK than white women, according to a report by the Fawcett Society.

The report should be withdrawn and the proper thing should be done in the sense that the Minority's views should be filed and integrated as a composite document.»

He cited a recent Newsday report, which showed that racial and ethnic minorities on Long Island were far more likely than whites to be arrested and incarcerated, as reason to consider an «outside perspective, who will bring about the change that needs to happen.»

Even as he hailed the ethics deal, Senate Minority Leader John Sampson couldn't say what the holdup is in releasing an internal report on the AEG mess.

Legislature Minority Leader Hector Rodriguez, the primary sponsor of the resolution, declined to characterize the measure as creating a sanctuary county, but the proposal — which Rodriguez said was crafted largely from a policy adopted by Tompkins County — mirrors the language offered by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in a report outlining model sanctuary provisions.

The resolution was unveiled by members of the Minority Caucus this week in response to recent reports that accused rapist and former Social Services Commissioner Al Dirschberger collected over $ 10,000 for unused time off as he resigned amid criminal allegations, the gross pay was $ 19,452.12.

The report, which gives letter grades to 32 agencies as well as the city itself, detailed that out of New York's $ 13.8 billion annual procurement budget for 2015, only 5.3 percent of the money was spent with minority and women - owned businesses.

«I'm a Democrat and I still adhere to Democratic values, I just don't want to be judged by the actions of others and I can no longer make excuses to my constituents for the behavior of this conference,» the Bronx lawmaker told me this afternoon following the DN's report that he had relinquished his post as deputy leader of the (now) minority conference.

Faso, a veteran politician who once served as New York State Assembly minority leader raised $ 908,176 during the same reporting period, bringing the total amount of contributions to his campaign to $ 2,285,383.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) pauses after writing «Mean - er» on a reported quote by President Trump as Schumer responds to the release of the GOP's health care bill Thursday.

Allen reported in Friday's Politico Playbook, «Michael Blake joins Hilltop Public Solutions: Blake previously served in the White House as Associate Director of Public Engagement & Deputy Associate Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, coordinating African American, Minority Business and county and statewide elected official outreach.»

In a nationwide survey in 2015, 40 percent of adolescents who identified as one of these sexual minorities or said they were unsure of their orientation reported seriously considering suicide.

But, he says, just as research experience can enhance the work of his program's graduates, growing up in a minority community can enhance reporting about and for that community.

As much as I hate [the movie] Minority Report, it had some impact on people realizing that there's more to computing that simply doing one thing at a time, you can bring your other hand around and use that toAs much as I hate [the movie] Minority Report, it had some impact on people realizing that there's more to computing that simply doing one thing at a time, you can bring your other hand around and use that toas I hate [the movie] Minority Report, it had some impact on people realizing that there's more to computing that simply doing one thing at a time, you can bring your other hand around and use that too.

Yet the report notes that a longitudinal survey of freshmen finds «underrepresented minorities aspire to major in STEM in college at the same rate as their white and Asian - American peers, and have done so since the last 1980s.»

The overall number of underrepresented minority faculty increased during the study period (from 6,565 (6.8 percent) in 2000 to 9,009 (8.0 percent) in 2010) as did the percentage of newly hired faculty self - reporting underrepresented minority status (from 9.4 percent in 2000 to 12.1 percent in 2010) and newly promoted (6.3 percent to 7.9 percent).

Underrepresented minority faculty were defined as faculty self - reported to be black, Hispanic, Native American, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander faculty.

Several CEOSE committee members talked to MiSciNet about the report's findings and offered suggestions on how minority students may improve their chances of entering these fields and continuing on to establish rewarding careers as professional scientists.

Half of women working in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs report having experienced gender discrimination at work, according to a new Pew Research Center survey examining people's experiences in the workplace and perceptions of fair treatment for women — as well as racial and ethnic minorities — in STEM occupations.

Meanwhile, the congressionally chartered Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology Development is holding public hearings (the next will be held 7 December at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland) and is formulating a report on specific strategies for how to deal with the slow pace of change in academia as well as business and government.

In 2011, a U.S. National Academy of Sciences report described America's minority populations as «a vastly underused resource and a lost opportunity for meeting our nation's technology needs.»

Demographic variables were year of graduation, sex (men vs women), age at graduation (≤ 29 years vs 30 - 32 or ≥ 33 years) and self - identified race / ethnicity, which students reported from a list of options on the GQ (categorized as white vs Asian / Pacific Islander; other or unknown race / ethnicity; or racial / ethnic groups considered underrepresented minorities in medicine relative to their numbers in the general population, including black, Hispanic, and American Indian / Alaska Native).