Sentences with phrase «if ethnic minorities»

If ethnic minorities are denied the opportunity to take exams in their language that is not encouraging.

If ethnic minorities had voted for Cameron at the same rate as the white British population in 2010, the Tories would have won 500,000 more votes, 24 more seats from Labour, and a parliamentary majority.

Research by British Future suggested David Cameron could have secured a majority if ethnic minority voters had supported the Tories in equal numbers to their white counterparts.

Cameron could have won a majority if ethnic minority voters had supported the Tories in equal numbers to their white counterparts.

Not exact matches

Theresa May has warned public services there is nowhere to hide if they treat black and ethnic minorities worse than white people.

It's just not seen as a priority, and yet, in our inner cities, if it were not for the minority ethnic people, the Church of England would not be represented.

Tim: I think there is always of course the danger that if you are challenging too much of non-Christian faiths, particularly faiths that are held mostly by members of ethnic minorities, that you might conflate criticisms of their faith with criticism of them as individuals and therefore be seen as racist, so people are nervous of that.

Many persons who are not likely to join groups in churches and schools may do so if they're made available in family counseling agencies» mental health services, youth organizations, business and industry, fraternal groups, self - help groups (such as A.A., P.W.P., Alanon, etc.), and in the many organizations devoted to special needs of the handicapped, ex-prisoners, ex-patients, unwed parents, minority groups of all kinds, senior citizens, community action groups, ethnic organizations.

I think if people looked around, they would have seen that a lot of ethnic minorities who were believers were struggling, and if you didn't have friends in those worlds, you wouldn't realize it was an epidemic.

If one were to discount ethnic minorities and immigrant groups then that figure would doubtlessly be considerably higher.

«If our churches are going to be more relevant to our communities, that means increasing churches that are led by priests that are women, who come from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups,» she said.

In the US, I think that about 25 % of the population consists of racial minorities and if you include ethnic minorities you get something closer to 50 %.

Multiparous women were more likely to choose a hospital birth if they belonged to an ethnic minority; had a non-optimal body mass (Quetelet index outside the range 18.8 - 24.2; P < 0.05); had a history of obstetric complications, preterm birth, or instrumental delivery; or had received medication (including vitamins and iron) in pregnancy (table 2).

If you take one ethnic minority aside and treat them with more scepticism than others - well, there's a word for that.

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

If this is not enough, the decade - long war may have produced a breed of Taliban who are believed to be much harder and harsher than their older lot when it comes to the rights of women, ethnic minorities and religious dissidents.

That is why even today if someone is from an ethnic minority, even if they are highly educated or rich, they are much more likely to vote Labour than vote Conservative.

If the party adopts this policy and implements it in government before the election we will be able to show ethnic minority communities that the Liberal Democrats have delivered where Labour messed up.

Alice pointed out that «If Parliament were representative, we would have 130 more women MPs, twice as many Black, Asian and minority ethnic MPs and 50 times more disabled MPs», while another BHA representative, Owen Winter, noted that some 120 constituencies at the last general election had no female candidates at all.

Yesterday I argued that if the Conservative Party doesn't increase its support among Britain's black and minority ethnic (BME) communities then in the medium to long term it will cease to be a party capable of winning general elections.

Risk factors for prediabetes include having a large waist or being overweight; being of Black or South Asian origin; having a family history of the condition; and being over 40 years old, or over 25 if you're Black, Asian or from an ethnic minority group.

Tories could capture millions of ethnic minority votes if they soften stance on immigration, says study 13 June 2015

, or without a vigorous opposition press, or with a slanderous and irresponsible opposition press, or which have signed up to supranational bodies outside democratic control, or which have signed up to international treaties ditto, or which make use of protected seats for women or ethnic minorities, or where the if the prime minister is one ethnic group the president is conventionally always another, or where unlimited campaign donations are allowed, or disallowed, or where significant numbers question the legitimacy of the polity holding the vote, or where voting is compulsory, or where non-citizens can not vote, or where they can, or where there is (or is not) a second chamber or supreme court that can block popular legislation...

Racial / ethnic minorities may jockey for «representation» if the census reveals significant increases in those populations.

Camara thinks Cuomo should veto the edited maps: «Even if there are negotiations, the final maps can not result in the dilution of ethnic or racial minorities.

One of the speakers, the Catholic Bishop of Gboko, His Lordship, Williams Avenya, had reminded Osinbajo of the then presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari's campaign promises that he would not Islamise the country and would protect the interest of all Nigerians including citizens of minority ethnic groups if voted into power.

The issue of ethnicity was always going to come up ahead of London's mayoral elections: if Labour candidate Sadiq Khan wins, he will become London's first Muslim mayor, and the first minority ethnic person to hold the office.

If Corbyn's appeal to young voters is mostly restricted to ethnic minorities and university students / graduates, that won't take him very far in Walsall North - especially with 8,000 Ukip voters from 2015 likely to lean towards the Tories.

If Corbyn's young support is concentrated among ethnic minorities and the university educated, that will only help him in certain marginals - most seats with lots of ethnic minorities, university students or metropolitan young professionals are already safely Labour.

If Labour can really turn out university students and young ethnic minorities, it can take a couple of these seats - but to take any others it would need a high youth turnout across the board, or to significantly increase its support among Kippers.

British Future are therefore right to conclude that the ethnic minority vote is increasingly «up for grabs», even if Labour still has a large starting advantage.

Backed up by polling showing Labour streaking ahead in London, it's easy to see the basis of this trend, even if certain seat - specific results look odd - lots of ethnic minority voters, lots of young voters and students, lots of young professionals, and lots of angry Remainers make for lots of Labour votes.

I have argued that the Party had made strategic errors through tokenism and ignorance; that it doesn't matter if we think we're not racist but ethnic minority voters do, and that it's time to end the Conservative war on multiculturalism (which, by the way, is supported by 71 per cent of Tory voters).

If BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) Labour mattered it would be a headline writer's dream.

«Police chiefs will be encouraged to favour ethnic minority candidates when it comes to recruitment and promotion, even if the law has to be changed to allow them to do so, under new proposals from Labour.

According to the ConservativeHome website, if the Conservatives win an overall majority of one, the number of Conservative MPs from ethnic minorities will increase from 2 to around 12, while the number of women will increase from 18 to more than 60.

It was, relatively, a good night for black and minority ethnic candidates: the number of African, Caribbean and Asian MPs has nearly doubled — if only from 14 to 26.

Peer reviewers can not disproportionately reject journal papers from women and ethnic minorities if author identities are hidden.

«This budget, if enacted, would jeopardize our nation's educational, scientific and health enterprises and limit access to critically needed mental and behavioral health services,» said Antonio E. Puente, president of the American Psychological Society (APS) in Washington, D.C. «These cuts would disproportionately affect people living in poverty, people with serious mental illness and other disabilities, women, children, people living with HIV / AIDS, older adults, ethnic and racial minorities, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.»

If I'm an ethnic minority child inside a school, and most of the diversity I see is among assistants and cleaners, that's a problem.»

You're also less likely to have accessed nature if you're from a black and minority ethnic (BAME) community as, according to Natural England, just 56 per cent of under 16s from BAME households visited the natural environment at least once a week, compared to 74 per cent from white households.

Schools are described as segregated if the proportion of ethnic minority pupils or students on free school meals is different to the proportion of pupils from the 10 nearest schools in the area

They warn that if adopted the curriculum may alienate pupils from ethnic and religious minority groups.

«If the children see SMT [the senior management team] as being all white and the cleaning staff from ethnic minorities, that is all they aspire to be.

The majority of students in the East Chicago school were bilingual and of Hispanic / Latino heritage, while few if any preservice teachers were either bilingual or racial and ethnic minorities.

Notorious for insulting women, gay people and ethnic minorities and inciting violence against them, he is promising, if elected, to put an end to the demarcation of indigenous and quilombo territories and to stop the public funding of NGOs.

If a law student with an ethnic minority background is unable to impress an interviewer because of a failure to meet the above criteria, that failure should not be attributed to ethnicity unless there is overwhelming evidence showing that to be the case.

Cultural differences are important for families but if offered sensitively standard programmes still seem to be helpful in minority ethnic groups.