Sentences with phrase «against minorities on»

There is, of course, always prejudice against minorities on the part of majorities; there are all kinds of ways to put minorities in an inferior position.

3) you said: «The Benhams are calling for bi.gotry against a minority on the basis of their personal belief.»

The Benhams are calling for bigotry against a minority on the basis of their personal belief.

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Crimes verging on genocide were being committed against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, and those crimes bore «the fingerprints of the Myanmar government and of the international community», the United Nations special adviser on the prevention of genocide said on Tuesday.

His anger seems only to have grown over the months, as he posted threatening messages on social media and participated in online rants against minorities.

Can't believe they allow people to make laws against a minority group based on some book that was written by men thousands of years ago (and revised countless times).

I'll be speaking on the first panel, «Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: the Islamic State's Impact on Vulnerable Religious Minority Communities.»

At the September 1933 World YMCA conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, Bonhoeffer warned of the «growing persecution of minorities» in Nazi Germany and successfully influenced the delegates to pass a strongly worded resolution condemning the violence against Jews: «We especially deplore the fact that the State measures against the Jews in Germany have had such an effect on public opinion that in some circles the Jewish race is considered a race of inferior status.»

Similarly, when people discriminate against racial minorities, or look at them negatively, they do so indefensibly, based on no defensible reason.

Therefore the pertinent debate regarding black hiring is never «merit vs. race» but whether hiring decisions will be based on merit, influenced by race - bias against blacks, or on merit, influenced by race - bias, but with special consideration for minorities as mandated by law.

They want me to rejoin the oppressed minority and battle on with judgment and condemnation against anyone who practices Christianity a little differently than they do.

It's time these hypocritical jerks got more than a slap on the wrist for all their hate mongering against minorities when they are secretly taking part in the very behavior that they decry.

In any case, the argument against Christian majoritarianism influencing public policy rests more on respect for minority feelings than on the alleged disintegration of the majority.

As much as we might fight against prayers in public schools, churches on city property and political leaders who have the nerve to declare that this is a Christian country, we must accept the fact that we are a minority.

Elizabeth Henry, the national adviser on Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns says that while Christians are called to go against the flow, churches inevitably act as a microcosm of society and will reflect some of the racist attitudes around them.

Unlike other theologians of his Church, he did not do it against the prohibition placed on Judeo - Christians to remain members of the Christian community, but against the marginalization and degradation of the Jewish minority within the national community.

They decided that people who preach hate against a minority are not good people, and thus denied them a program on their network.

For example, both the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have been accused of ignoring or discriminating against other minorities.

The government can, however, impose health and safety requirements on all EMPLOYERS — they can require a minimum wage, they can require that female or minority workers are not discriminated against, and so forth.

In particular, it is a response to the threat against the family represented by secular society's accelerating movement towards accepting what were, only a generation ago, simply demands by a small minority of activists for the legalisation of what they insist on describing as homosexual «marriage».

In all honesty, the «religious people» that don't legislate against things based solely on their religious convictions and thereby hurt the rights of individuals, and who don't condemn science and medicine and societal progression and other religions and other denominations and people who are not religious, and who don't claim to know that something is true beyond all other truths, are probably a very slim minority, and I'd have to argue that they aren't really religious, they are just doing whatever makes them feel good, which could be accomplished through secular means as well.

Eshhad calculates that attacks on Christians accounted for about 89 % of all attacks against religious minorities in Egypt over the past year, 17 of which were committed by Islamic State or its north African affiliate, Wilayat Sinai.

Blue also blundered last August, in the aftermath of the Shoal Creek controversy at the PGA Championship, when he claimed that the LPGA wasn't vulnerable on the issue of holding tournaments at clubs that discriminate against women and minorities.

A small minority of Arsenal fans protested on 12 and 78 minutes of the Saturday Night Football clash against Norwich at the Emirates as Danny Welbeck scored the only goal of the game.

It seems rather more plausible to me to say that where the Liberal Party failed to recognise its own enlightened self - interest was in failing to do more to hug close the labour movement and perhaps Labour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive alliance.

Massed against him on one side are the ranks of MPs who opposed a winner isolated in a tiny minority in his own Shadow Cabinet, frontbenchers contradicting their leader at will after reluctantly joining his team.

A coalition of environmental and conservation organizations on Wednesday released a letter thanking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York for pushing back against Trump administration policies they contend favors polluters.

DeFrancisco will be competing against Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb and ex-Erie County Executive Joel Giambra for the GOP nod to take on the governor.

«We are shocked at the totally partisan reaction of our colleagues from the minority party, PDP, to the on - going investigations and recovery of public funds meant for the prosecution of the war against insurgency.»

Indiscriminate violence against minorities as well as other Muslims by extremists groups who abuse the Islamic faith negates every visionary word Jinnah had uttered about the future secular and peaceful destiny of the country on the eve of its creation.

First, Russia bowed to EU and US pressure to tolerate the systemic discrimination against Russophones (mostly ethnic Russians) in Estonia and Latvia, leading to those two countries being included in the enlargement process of the EU and NATO, despite their flagrant infringements of Western norms on minority protections.

In other words, by appealing to national pride, he unifies and mobilises the «responsible» voters against the minority of Euro - sceptics (embodied by Beppe Grillo and paradoxically defined as the only populists on the political scene).

Meantime, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, a New York Democrat, called on President Trump to come out against what Schumer called «the absurd law about silencers.»

On the other side we have minority Muslim groups who are indulging in a similar religious populism, advocating the fact that «we are more Muslim when we are non-Western» or clearly against the West.

And the MPs who have rebelled against Corbyn's leadership clearly represent a majority within the parliamentary party, whereas the MPs who were expelled and went on to form the National Labour Organisation in 1931 and those who left to form the SDP in 1981 were in the minority.

The Vulcan Society plans to put the Rev. Al Sharpton, Rep. Charles Rangel and former Gov. David Paterson on the witness stand at next month's civil retrial to prove NYC intentionally discriminated against minority applicants.

Charging the masses with reporting on others has affected the very fabric of our society, creating the potential for discrimination against all migrants and ethnic minority communities, and spreading suspicion and division.

On December 2, 2009, Miller sided with the conservative minority, by voting against a bill legalizing same - sex marriage.

The Senate minority leader tweeted simply» #BeBest» Thursday, after President Donald Trump raged against him on Twitter.

Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are counting on Republican representatives from their states — New York and California — to be the vanguard against halting the deduction, which Cuomo said last week would cost 3 million New Yorkers more than $ 17 billion.

Oral Questions - Action to encourage women and girls to take part in sport and improve the profile of women's sport in the media - Baroness Massey of Darwen; Addressing the under - representation of women, especially black and ethnic minority women, on FTSE 100 boards - Baroness Howells of St Davids; Ensuring the action plan for ending violence against women and girls is delivered consistently in schools - Baroness Prosser

The Buffalo businessman said yesterday he'll be joined on the new line by his LG running mate, former NYC Council Minority Leader Tom Ognibene, along with Malpass and another GOP US Senate candidate, Gary Bernsten, who is running in a GOP primary against Jay Townsend to take on Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer in the general election.

The GOP, which voted in a bloc against the marriage bill in spite of advocates» claims that there was support from four or more minority conference members for the legislation, is unlikely to engaged it fragile hold on the majority — if it manages to wrest it back from the Democrats — by taking up this controversial bill.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said that Islamic State violence against Christians, Iraqi Yazidis and other religious minorities in the Middle East was genocide.

Also at 7 p.m., a rally is held outside Schumer's residence as part of a nationwide day of action against Trump's «climate denial» cabinet nominees, calling on the newly - minted Senate minority leader to use his powers to block confirmations, 9 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn.

Four days after she was panned for calling Rep. John Conyers, D - Mich., an «icon» in the wake of sexual harassment allegations against him, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called on the veteran congressman to resign.

THE BRONX — The New York Botanical Garden discriminated against minority students and made a «lowball» offer to avoid hiring an observant Jew, according a civil rights lawsuit filed in Manhattan Federal Court on Wednesday.

On the Senate floor, some Democrats, who are in the minority in that house, spoke against a process that they say excluded them.

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He's rendered himself unelectable on a national scale - how could he possibly appeal to ANY minorities at his point, including gay people (after his AG Cuccelli wrote a memo essentially saying VA Universities could discriminate against gays?).