Sentences with phrase «against minorities with»

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And they have also tended to allow religious excuses to free people from certain legal claims, such as might arise in jurisdictions with broad protections against discrimination, including minorities such as LGBT people.

The Broward county school system, where Marjory Stoneman Douglas is located, has had a program with the goal of limiting outsized disciplinary measures against minority students since 2013, a year before the Obama DOE's guidelines were issued.

I agree with Animenut: «a people who have experienced bigotry and hatred all their life would support bigotry against another minority».

The vote in favour of recognising Islamic State's actions against Christians and other minorities as genocide passed with 279 MPs voting in favour and none voting against.

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

The voting rights act was specific to states in the south with the tendency to descriminate against minority voters.

Finally, by making it necessary that elections be conducted as contests of like against like (female against female, minority against minority, etc.) the system extended vast powers to the nominating process and enabled those in power to recruit just those board members most likely to agree with their purposes and keep them in power.

These men and women have fought for the abolition of slavery (Wilberforce), established orphanages for abandoned children (Mueller), advanced civil rights for racial minorities (King), fought against HIV / AIDS (Koop), provided human touch, restored dignity, and shelter for the poor (Mother Teresa), created places of belonging and contribution for people with disabilities and special needs (Tada), and fought against the sex trade and human trafficking (Caine).

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.

At the same time, I acknowledge that we can not tell whether he would have been willing to side with a small intellectual minority against the dominant thinking of the time.

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.

Traditional Russian Orthodoxy continues to be increasingly conflated with a sense of Russian patriotism and nationalism, so many believe the government will keep pushing against the freedoms of minority faiths.

Muslims in this country are a small minority of no more than 2 percent, most of them relatively recent arrivals, and are associated with a religion in whose name, however illegitimately, war has beendeclared against America.

CSW's Chief Executive, Mervyn Thomas, said: «CSW is urging the US government to raise the issue of widespread hate campaigns by state and non-state actors against religious minorities in talks with Prime Minister Modi, and to insist that justice is done for the victim - survivors of violence against religious minorities.»

> > Some conservatives, who find themselves in the minority with their > opposition to gay marriage and clergy, see themselves as being > discriminated against.

A true «fundamentalist» would not rage against gays but rather would treat them as Jesus treated other outcasts and minorities: with respect and acceptance.

ironwolf56... «A true «fundamentalist» would not rage against gays but rather would treat them as Jesus treated other outcasts and minorities: with respect and acceptance.»

You seem to accept the mediocrity that is now so familiar and all to common with this Manager.If you really are pleased and delighted with THAT performance against a team likely to be relegated this season (just look at their remaining fixtures) then it only shows how much higher the expectation levels are of the majority of supporters than others.YOU are quite clearly in that minority.

I remember a few protests against the prices and even against Wenger, but of course anybody that doesn't like Wenger or our business policy can go to hell as Wenger has give us numerous examples he thinks of such people as a minority, while in fact a lot of people have grown impatient with his incompetence.

There is more than just a small minority of Arsenal fans who think that the Germany international Mesut Ozil is nothing more than a luxury that the Gunners can not really afford to have, apart from when he blows away the doubters with a match winning performance like we saw against Tottenham last weekend.

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.

With Islam becoming the principal pillar of statehood, it was inevitable that the minority question would arise, as was manifested in the 1953 riots against Ahmadis in Lahore.

Mr. Suhuyini, along with two other Minority members of the Appointments Committee; Mahama Ayariga and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, MPs for Bawku Central and North Tongu, have written to the Speaker of Parliament calling for a thorough investigation of the bribery claims against the Mr. Agyarko.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appears determined to remain in power, but her resolve is at odds with growing numbers of Democratic candidates who view her as politically toxic and are pledging to vote against her as their leader.

(Airs 12/21/17) WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with New York State Republican Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb about his newly announced run for Governor against Andrew Cuomo.

Members of the delegation repeatedly disrupted the lineup of speakers, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, with protestations against Clinton and cheers for her erstwhile primary rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Astorino took particular umbrage at Cuomo blasting his stance against the affordable housing settlement, saying it hurt minorities, with the GOP candidate accusing Cuomo of playing «the race card.»

Which could probably conflict with EU rules for the rights of minorities / free speech / political activities, but it is not the same than «death threat against a national minority».

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb reacted with disbelief yesterday to a question about a potential coup against his Democratic counterpart, Speaker Sheldon Silver, actually laughing when asked by CapTon's Kaitlyn Ross about this topic.

Former Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation Mahama Ayariga has said he feels sorry his friendship with Minority Chief Whip, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka has been ruined following his allegation of bribery against the latter.

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.

A federal jury in Brooklyn found that the Emigrant Savings Bank had discriminated against eight minority homeowners by purposefully marketing to them subprime mortgages with what were described as predatory interest rates of as much as 18 percent a year.

But a group of Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and New York Congressman Jerry Nadler, denounced the Center for Medical Progress, with Nadler called the videos «nothing more than a witch hunt» against Planned Parenthood.

The Senate GOP released their own statement during the discussion with a defiant knock against the minority conference.

When the Howard League published an independent review of the use of restraint against children by Lord Carlile he found staff were too quick to resort to violence and that it was disproportionately used against ethnic minority children and those with learning difficulties.

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.

Though he had appeared to pledge before the elections to return to the Democratic fold — an effort Gov. Andrew Cuomo professed to support, in exchange for the Working Families Party endorsement — Klein decided against re-joining a minority conference, and he struck a deal with Skelos in which the IDC continued to exist as a separate conference, albeit with considerably less power than before.

Sources in the party have related that, various minority members of parliament have bemoaned against the incredibly deep rooted division their flagbearer Nana Akufo - Addo, has infested the party with.

After Mr. Avella joined a group of breakaway Democrats that govern the State Senate with the Republican Party, Mr. Crowley pushed Mr. Liu to run against Mr. Avella: it was this primary, in part, that eventually drove the Independent Democratic Conference to agree last month to eventually govern with the mainline Democratic conference, potentially putting the GOP in the minority for 2015.

With his megaphone, Sharpton can confer credibility (as he did for Liu, who ran as the «minority» candidate against white councilman David Yassky) or he can contaminate.

With a flourish, he also emphasized a central theme of the convention: that the Republican Party, in New York and Washington, is a retrograde organization aligned against minorities and women.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D - N.Y.), who had frequently clashed with Dean over strategy and investments, endorsed Ellison and defended the first Muslim member of Congress against charges of anti-Semitism.

A minority government tends to be much less stable than a majority government because, if they can unite for the purpose, opposing parliamentary members have the numbers to vote against legislation, or even bring down the government with a vote of no confidence.

Josmar Trujillo, an organizer with New Yorkers Against Bratton, blamed the lack of political courage for the momentum behind criminal justice proposals that he said are doing nothing to stop a disproportionate impact on minorities.

Contrary to what the travellers and their legion of often misguided supporters hold to be the truth, the eviction from the Dale Farm site has nothing to do with the abuse of human rights, nor is it a matter of discriminating against a particular minority.

A Massapequa - based business repeatedly allowed employees to use epithets against minority co-workers — even condoning employees programming their phones with a racial slur announcing a colleague's call — the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a suit against the company.

If he is interested in helping the minority in its rematch against the Republicans in 2012, the party apparatus might provide him with a mechanism for doing so, much like Eliot Spitzer tried to do.

Should Cusick opt out of a race against Donovan, Democrats will likely have to turn their attention across the Verrazano to the minority Brooklyn portion of the district, where a few people have also expressed interest, most notably Councilman Vincent Gentile, who sat down with Gulino earlier this month.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer reacted with suspicion to President Donald Trump's nomination of Court of Appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch to the late Antonin Scalia «s slot on the Supreme Court — and warned against any Republican attempt to eliminate the filibuster in order to ram his confirmation through.