Sentences with phrase «about a minority of»

I'm talking about the minority of people that hate religion and God, but spend all day long on message boards dedicated to faith, belief and religion.

In terms of what I can say about the minority of journalists and so - called specialists, I am concentrating solely on my statistics this season.»

Not exact matches

We were asking urgent questions about whether women, people of color, religious minorities, immigrants, would ever be treated with dignity and respect.

Canadians who still get their mail delivered to their home are in the minority (about one - third of the population)

And in the long run, the idea that a forced separation of cultures — with strict rules about who can wear what, or eat or listen to what — would be good for minorities is one that would backfire.

The survey revealed that, surprisingly, most minority executives are positive about the direction of the U.S. economy, believing it will maintain its current expansion (38.3 percent) or grow faster than before (21.9 percent).

A recent Biz2Credit survey of more than 1,500 minority business owners from across the country in late March and early April asked for their opinions about the economy overall and their own prospects for success in 2016.

«So we're talking about a significant minority of these shareholders that would incur these capital gains.»

The president, who has repeatedly said he wants to accomplish the difficult feat of winning Democratic votes, joked about the minority party's support to Sen. Ron Wyden, D - Ore., the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.

«What strikes me about the Bush economic strategy at this point is that it comes straight from Jack Kemp's philosophy about empowerment and minority entrepreneurship and developing inner cities,» says Bill Whalen, a research fellow of politics at the Hoover Institution.

That doesn't have to always be the case, notes Melissa Bradley, director of Kauffman's Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation Initiative who writes about minority entrepreneurship for the foundation.

Kalin says many of the complaints about low - cost competition come from a minority of very vocal Etsy sellers, which is undoubtedly true.

Before you oil the squeaky wheel, here are some things to keep in mind about the vocal minority — those online customers, trolls and / or community members who have big mouths, but don't actually represent the sentiments of the group.

«Given some of his past statements and his staunch opposition to immigration reform, I am very concerned about what he would do with the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice and want to hear what he has to say,» incoming Democratic Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York said in a statement.

According to Deloitte and the Alliance for Board Diversity, women and minorities occupied about 31 % of the board seats of Fortune 500 companies in 2016 — up from 26.7 % in 2012.

According to 1996 figures, some 13 % of female - owned companies — about one in eight — were owned by minority women.

Putin spoke about the «rehabilitation of ethnic Tartars,» a minority Muslim that makes up about 12 % Crimea today after Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's forcible deported of the entire population in 1944.

Sources: U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, Minorities In Business, 1999; SBA, Office of Advocacy, The Facts About Small Business 1999.

«I understand why job seekers that are minority or female would want to do that; it makes perfect sense based on what we know about the hiring process,» says Steve McDonald, an associate professor of sociology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

Merkel, 63, said she was sceptical about ruling in a minority government, telling ARD television: «My point of view is that new elections would be the better path.»

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.

And, whether we're talking about hedge funds or mutual funds, private equity or real estate trusts, there is not a single field with more than 5 percent of its assets managed by minority or women - owned firms, according to a recently released Knight Foundation report.

«We will fight to defend them because they are about the health and economic security of America's working families, and we will not use Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security as an ATM machine for the Republicans to give tax breaks to their wealthy friends and corporate America,» House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at her year - end press conference, signaling that Democrats would not support cuts to Social Security and other entitlements.

It will require deep commitment to learn about the unique and nuanced needs of each minority group.

«A minority of investors I speak to give two hoots about Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan,» says Jefferies analyst Martin Deboo in London, referring to Polman's signature blueprint for Unilever, dubbed USLP.

According to a report by the Senate minority staff of the Committee on Finance and the Committee of the Judiciary, then SEC Associate Director of Enforcement Paul Berger was instrumental in the firing of SEC Senior Counsel Gary Aguirre, who wanted to question Mack about the insider trading matter.

In its first decade, the Rooney Rule seemed to make a notable difference: Beginning in 2003, ESPN reports that minorities filled about 20 % of head coaching vacancies — and that percentage edged up steadily each year.

According to the New York Times, black students have never been responsible for mass shootings that drove the national conversation about gun safety and minority schools have never been the targets of such attacks, leaving civil rights groups wondering why black students would be the focus when seeking to address an issue that plagues white, male students.

To combat the myth about there being a dearth of qualified candidates, the CBDC has compiled the Diversity 50 list of «board - ready» women and minorities, ranging from academics to entrepreneurs to C - suite executives.

Should Stephen Harper's Conservatives remain in power until that time, they will become the country's longest - lasting minority government, surpassing by about a month that of Mackenzie King's 1921 - 1925 administration.

The user likened Facebook's monitoring of user's messages to pre-crime monitoring, which is a popular theme in sci - fi about the state going too far like in 1984 by George Orwell or The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick.

(Merely as a point of interest, consider that the average seat - advantage these six minorities held over their official Opposition was roughly 14, while the average number of months from their initial election victory to the next tilt was about 15.)

The lackluster performance has revealed a hard truth about the quality of investments made during the peak years: A large number of inexperienced funds bought at inflated prices and settled for taking minority stakes, which left them little room to maneuver when growth slowed in markets like China and India.

While no actual projects have been announced so far, programming could include a TV show around the people the NYT featured in its series «Overlooked,» about women and minorities who didn't get obituaries in the Times but should have, and a TV - version of «The Daily» podcast.

For about two - thirds of the elderly, Social Security is their major income source; for 36 percent, old - age benefits account for at least 90 percent of their income and these shares are even larger for minorities and for women.

Currently, about 23 per cent of our workforce is comprised of visible minorities, and about ten per cent of our executive management team.

The operator of about 900 pubs across the U.K. and Ireland shut down its Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts on Monday, citing recent online «trolling» of U.K. lawmakers and minorities, as well as concerns around misuse of personal data.

Cook had previously withdrawn Apple's participation in the 2016 Republican convention that nominated Trump as a candidate because of his comments about race, immigrants and other minorities.

The purpose of this website is to consider a better way of investing — from basic overall strategy to looking at the minority of (mostly) small, independent money managers who appear to actually give a damn about their clients.

But while most of the bitcoin cash community is excited about the change, there has been some pushback, or at least skepticism, from a minority of users.

People sometimes mention to me that I must be bitter about Bancinsurance, because I thought it was worth at least 1 times book (I thought it was worth more, but I felt reasonable people could disagree about how much more) and yet the board approved a sale of the minority shareholders to the majority shareholder at something like 0.9 times book.

About NMSDC One of the country's leading corporate membership organizations, NMSDC was chartered in 1972 to provide increased procurement and business opportunities for minority businesses of all sizes.

What remains of Yahoo after the sale includes an approximately 15 percent equity stake in China's Alibaba Group Holding; about 36 percent in Yahoo Japan; cash and marketable debt securities; certain minority investments; and Excalibur, which owns some patent assets.

Same - sex marriage's journey from minority status to the law of the land offers important lessons about gaining broad - based public support that fiduciary advocates can gain from.

The same is true of gender and minority representation, since the expectations of the day, unfortunate as they were, didn't commonly include the belief held by many today that Parliament should look, think, and care about issues in broadly similar ways to the country at large.

And that «minority of die - hard idealists» whom Marr praises for bringing about the end of slavery?

Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority by Peter Skerry Free Press, 461 pages, $ 27.95 What the rapidly growing number of Mexican Americans are ambivalent about is how they should make it into the American mainstream.

About a quarter of the world's Muslims live as minorities in places where they must practice Islam as «just a religion,» to use a Western phrase.

You would think it would be a hard sell given the fact that the real estate mogul and reality star has boasted about his extramarital affairs, profited off casinos and strip clubs, said he doesn't need to ask God for forgiveness, called for targeting innocent civilians in war, mocked a reporter with a disability, threatened the religious liberty of minority groups in the U.S., and gained wide support among white nationalists for consistently lying about and demeaning blacks, Mexican immigrants, Muslims, and Syrian refugees.

There has been a lot of conversation in recent years about the rise of racial and ethnic minorities in America.