Sentences with phrase «advantages over minority»

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It is a different scenario for minority administrations with a larger seat advantage over the official opposition.

As the chart above illustrates, there is an interesting correlation between the seat - advantage a minority government holds over the official Opposition, and the length of time between general elections when the minority is in power.

The Grit seat advantage over the Progressives was 52, and, coincidentally, the King government did not face voters for another 47 months following their minority win.

To sum up, the six general elections considered here ended with minority governments, and those minorities all enjoyed a relatively small advantage in the number of seats — ranging from two to 22 — over the official Opposition.

(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.)

It seems evident that minority governments with a comparatively narrow seat - advantage over the official Opposition usually stay in power for relatively brief periods of time.

And we need visible minority employees to take greater advantage of these opportunities so that they have more power over their own career development.

This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

Lawmakers have expressed concerns over the company's business practices, considering they have operated nutrition clubs in minority neighborhoods as a way of taking advantage of low - income people.

It not only gives incumbents an advantage, but has given the longtime majority parties in Albany — Republicans in the Senate and Democrats in the Assembly — an edge over the much - more modestly staffed minority conferences.

In Nevada, which has the only Democratic - held Senate seat being aggressively fought over this year, strategists in both parties say Republicans have an advantage in the race to succeed Harry Reid, the minority leader.

The gist is this: In networks where the nodes are competing for being the most well connected because it gives them an advantage over other nodes, phenomena such as «first - mover - advantage,» «fit - get - rich,» and «winner - takes - all» result in network centralization as a minority of nodes eventually capture a significant portion of the network's links.