Sentences with phrase «as a minority group»

As a minority group living in a hostile culture, members of the early Christian churches were in no position to identify the bestowal of God's grace and blessing with national peace and prosperity.

People who think homosexuals should not have special legal entitlements as a minority group, parents who do not want their eight - year - olds instructed in the use of condoms, those who insist that abortion is very bad for unborn children and their mothers — bigots one and all.

As minority groups in our own country, there is only so much we can do to influence the attitudes, beliefs and actions of non-Indigenous people.

Delinquents as a minority group: Accidental tourists in forbidden territory or voluntary émigrés?

Not exact matches

It is true that the US did not persecute the Jews - or at least, as one Nazi lawyer remarked in 1936, it had not persecuted the Jews «so far» - but it had created a host of forms of second - class citizenship for other minority groups, including Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans and Native Americans, scattered all over the Union and its colonies.

Are women or other minority groups getting promoted at the same rate as their non-minority peers?

In particular, Code.org strives to reach underserved minority groups such as girls and Hispanic and African American students so they, too, have a chance to learn about computer sciences.

Islamic State's offshoot in Afghanistan, known as the Sunni jihadist group's so - called Khorasan Province, is suspected of carrying out several attacks on minority Shi'ite Muslim targets.

As more companies begin to deliver remarkable products and experiences to women, people of color, and other minority groups that have largely been ignored or underserved in the past, they are responding with their support and loyalty.

Here Sotomayor plays the mentor card: «I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self - segregation; take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don't hide within it.»

The branding of particular minority groups as threats to the nation has been a mainstay of the Republican Party for the last several decades.

Scott said the group would look to dispose some minority assets with funds raised going towards the faster growing parts of the business, such as data, technology and digital services.

Users were reporting everyday activities of members of minority groups in their neighborhoods as «suspicious.»

As a minority in the sea of 450 - plus male chiefs, the group of 26 women CEOs in the Fortune 500 have often been referred to as a sororitAs a minority in the sea of 450 - plus male chiefs, the group of 26 women CEOs in the Fortune 500 have often been referred to as a sororitas a sorority.

www.emeraldmaterials.com The Carlyle Group has «entered into exclusive negotiations» to acquire a 75 % stake in Homair Vacances (Paris: ALHOM), a French mobile home operator, from Montefiore Investment (which would reinvest as a minority shareholder), according to the FT. www.homair.com DRB Systems, a n Akron, Ohio — based provider of software solutions to the car wash industry, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Prairie Capital.

Liberal legislation that received royal assent today means publicly traded companies are now required to disclose the number of women and others from equity - seeking groups, such as visible minorities, on their boards and in senior management.

To fight the proposed cap, Uber then aggressively marketed itself as a service for minorities and outer - borough residents (two groups taxis are notoriously bad at serving) and as a means for New Yorkers to find gainful employment.

The Carlyle Group («Carlyle») is one of the world's largest global alternative asset management firms that originates, structures and acts as lead equity investor in management - led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, growth capital financings, real estate opportunities, bank loans, high - yield debt, distressed assets, mezzanine debt and other investment opportunities.

To be included in UnitedHealth Group's Supplier Diversity Program, we require firms to be certified as minority - or women - owned businesses by a third party certification agency.

Diverse data: In a briefing with reporters, NIH officials said they are focusing on gathering health and genetic data from diverse and historically underrepresented groups — including ethnic and sexual minorities, as well as people with disabilities, with less than a high school education, and with income below the poverty level.

They are almost twice as likely as the next closest segment (61 % to 34 %) to say that Canada should be focused on encouraging cultural diversity instead of integrating minority groups into mainstream Canadian society.

The fact that none of these family offices reported targeting direct or co-investments above $ 5 million is also telling, as these California family offices unanimously prefer to make minority and small - to - middle - market deals, rather than executing some of the large deals that have been done by family offices and co-investment groups in recent years.

If it is right to judge Islam as a whole on the basis of the barbarism of jihadi groups, how should we explain — and encourage — the actions of Kurdish Muslims and many other Muslims who are standing up to the jihadists and paying with their lives to protect Christian and Yazidi minorities in Iraq?

It's sad that so many believers choose willful blindness with regard to evolution, and some other sciences, as well as willful blindness to the human rights of some minority groups.

And do not lump all minority groups as one.

So as a member of the most oppressed minority group in the history of time, religion is the cause of 95 % of the evil in this world and I don't need it in my government.

Of course they were persecuted, as has been every minority group in history.

The right to vote in this country for women and minorities would seem to be as obvious as the nose on your face, yet less than 100 years ago neither group enjoyed this right.

«In particular, Christians from indigenous people groups suffer a double discrimination as both religious and ethnic minorities.»

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.

It really does mean a lot when groups such as NAACP voice their support for civil rights for the LGBT minority.

This evening, the US House of Representatives voted unanimously that groups such as ISIS are committing genocide against Christians and other minorities in the Middle East.

Russian Protestants have been more ambivalent about the legal fate of the fellow minority group, as CT previously reported.

And as organizations such as ISIS, Boko Haram, or al - Shabaab push out existing governmental structures, the lack of organized law enforcement leads to «minorities suffering at the hands of violent groups,» the report said.

«Blasphemy accusations in Pakistan are often used to settle petty vendettas and persecute minority groups,» said Kate Allen, UK Director of Amnesty International in December 2014, as part of a plea for the release of Mohammad Asghar, a 70 - year - old British Muslim grandfather also on death row.

Choices of profound importance had to be made, not only by clans and tribes as a whole, but by minority groups and individuals, and nothing more imperiously calls out the sense of personal worth and dignity than the exercise of moral choice.

And as the minority in Crystal Springs has shown us, we already have enough blatantly bigoted people in existence; we don't need any more racists masquerading as social problem solvers while they themselves cut down an entire group of people.

The Mahdavi sect still exists in India and Pakistan as an insignificant minority group.

The homosexual lobby has been very effective in aligning itself with minority groups, is prominently represented at the Holocaust memorial service [12] each year and has created an image of itself as a group of people under persecution.

But as the UU movement shifts «leftward» religiously, its members will more and more become a new «minority group.»

When I used to attend (evangelical christian) church there was always a vocal strain of folks who wanted to think they were persecuted, they told made - up stories about christians being persecuted in various parts of the world (at the time a lot of them were set in the U.S.S.R.)... it was so obvious that they LOVED thinking of themselves as some small group of martyrs, that they NEEDED to imagine themselves to be a persecuted minority... holding on to some secret truth that the rest of the world had turned its back on.

Given the history of medical experimentation and the lack of access to medical resources for certain groups of people, we must be especially concerned that women, racial and ethnic minorities, prisoners, and the poor are not exploited as a result of this research or of human cloning itself.

«Although this group is portrayed as a minority, those who do not want a winner - take - all, scorched - earth policy, are a majority in Synod,» he said.

The global market with «neo-liberal» developments have weakened liberal democratic subjecthood for individual persons, powerless groups, such as racial and ethnic minorities, local communities.

Special care should be taken to discourage young people, who in their search for personal identity tend to be conformists, from interpreting and practicing democracy as majority rule, in disregard of individual and minority rights and careless of the proper subordination of the will of the group to the principles of justice.

Despotic capitalism, on the other hand, is characterized by control of the government by an individual or a relatively small group such as military junta, an aristocracy or elite class, or a minority political party.

The word Rohingya hit the headlines as members of the minority group were forced to flee violence in Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh.

The door - to - door evangelists have historically served as a bellwether for religious freedom for other minority groups.

A «faction» is any group that attempts to «impose» its own conception of the good on others, and government must be so organized as to prevent any majority or minority faction from doing that.

The «free exercise» clause applies to all faith groups equally and should not be seen as a threat to those that are in the minority — precisely the groups that the «no establishment» clause was designed to protect.