Sentences with phrase «by a minority from»

, which was held down by a minority from elsewhere.

Not exact matches

Rep. Tim Ryan (D) of Ohio challenged minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D) of California for the leadership and was backed by a third of the caucus, some from the swath between the coasts.

It's easy to discriminate against the minority cobbler down the street by traveling a few extra blocks to buy from «your own kind»; it's much harder to act out your racist biases when buying shoes at a big department store because, well, you have no idea what colour or sex or sexual orientation of the person who made those shoes is.

These board committees are important for the merger because T - Mobile and Sprint are majority owned by Germany's Deutsche Telekom and Japan's SoftBank, respectively, and could be left vulnerable to potential lawsuits from minority shareholders if they don't establish independent mechanisms to review the deal.

The only problem is that it's still legal to fire LGBT employees in 28 states where such workers aren't covered by state laws that protect various minorities from discrimination on the job, as well as in housing and public accommodations.

Indeed, from 1997 to 2007, the number of minority - owned small businesses increased by more than 25 percent, according to data from the Brookings Institute.

The size of the minorities varies from study to study, but the one - third conclusion reached by Maser and Dufour provides a centre of gravity for the estimates.

Founded in 2002 by Elon Musk, SpaceX is a private company owned by management and employees, with minority investments from Founders Fund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Valor Equity Partners.

Flipkart's valuation by some of its minority investors over the past one year has ranged from $ 5.57 billion to $ 10 billion.

SCMP Group Ltd., which has posted three years of profit declines, has been suspended from trading since February 2013 after the company failed to have at least 25 percent of shares held by minority investors, the minimum proportion required for a company to trade its shares in Hong Kong.

Trudeau's minority lasted as long as it did thanks to support from the New Democratic Party (in return for the implementation of some NDP policies), while Harper's was aided by disarray in the opposition Liberal Party — Paul Martin's resignation, a lengthy and divisive leadership convention, and the unwillingness of the new leader, Stephane Dion, to defeat Harper until the Grits had begun to reduce their party and personal debts, and developed new policies (notably the Green Shift).

There, it is true that the arbitrage gains arising from free trade between economic zones of vastly different living standards without trade balance equilibrium and being captured by a small minority are correctly viewed as un-earned gains and giving rise to social tensions which could easily degenerate into political tensions.

According to its 2005 listing in Fortune, nearly half of Denny's 1,011 franchises are owned by minorities, 255 of them by Asian Indians, while one - third of restaurant managers and one - fifth of executives are also drawn from the diner chain's minority ranks.

AvidXchange, which provides automated bill payment solutions, completed a $ 225 million [minority growth financing] round led by Bain Capital Ventures with contributions from Foundry Group, KeyBanc Capital, Nyca Partners, Square 1 Bank and TPG Capital.

The largest infrastructure investment of the year was a minority growth financing in AvidXchange for $ 225 million led by Bain Capital Ventures with contributions from Foundry Group, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Nyca Partners, Square 1 Bank and TPG Capital.

It becomes a vote - buying enterprise financed by transfers from the minority upper classes to the majority middle and lower classes.

Partnership Accelerates Growth and Innovation for Sales and Marketing Technology Leader VANCOUVER, WA, March 14, 2018 — DiscoverOrg, the leading sales and marketing intelligence provider, announced today that it has completed a strategic minority investment by global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG), along with additional investment to come from 22C Capital.

However, these companies are far from the only ones affected by minority interests.

Institutional investors in the U.K. and Europe fear fallout from Brexit but only a minority are preparing for one, a survey of financial managers and institutions by MSCI shows.

For recent insight from Powers and Kornfeld, see ««Gatekeeper» Actions by the SEC and Investors Against Administrators Challenge Private Fund Industry» (Sep. 8, 2016); and «A New Look at an Old Standard: The Power of Minority Bondholders Under the Trust Indenture Act» (Mar. 5, 2015).

-- the current price at 12,35 EUR is ~ 1/3 lower than the expired take - over offer from Deutsche Annington 6 weeks ago — although the share will be delisted by the end of the year, I do believe that a squeeze - out under Luxembourg law is very likely within the next 12 - 18 months close to the initial offer price (~ 50 % upside from current price)-- the downside is that following November, the stock will be unlisted and hard to sell and that for some reason the Acquirer Deutsche Annington will not squeeze out the remaining minorities

VANCOUVER, WA, March 14, 2018 — DiscoverOrg, the leading sales and marketing intelligence provider, announced today that it has completed a strategic minority investment by global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG), along with additional investment to come from 22C Capital.

If the «wall of separation» is lowered, we are told, our schools may be returned to the days of prayers prescribed by state legislatures; evolution may be banished from the classroom and replaced by «creation science»; and religious minorities may be at the mercy of intolerant majorities.

His followers are doing pretty good job of eliminating minorities by forcing them to leave their country or be converted to Islam, but you know what, those days of Koranic abuse are over, people are hitting back at s. a. v. a g e s from air, governments around the world are not hesitant to call them terrorists and killing them any place they find.

To avoid majority religious views from being favored by the state over the views of the many minority religions.

The country has long been considered a model of tolerance, but religious tensions in the past few years — including the demolition of 20 churches, protests over attacks on Christians by Islamist extremists, and a law requiring minority religious groups to collect signatures from local majority groups before building churches — highlight the country's increasing struggles to maintain harmony between its religious groups.

dalits from upper castes domination; second, to mobilize the minority strength to fight against injustice, oppression and discrimination by the majority.

Rather, I see a man representing the minority voice, appropriately fatigued from feeling unseen, unheard, misunderstood, misjudged and injured by a world that is set up for some races to thrive and lead and other races to languish and submit.

In a true democracy, a doctrine of pluralism may be a way of safeguarding the rights of minorities; in a hierarchy, however, where authority proceeds from a Will not constituted by any part of the population, «pluralism» is often a code word for the project of giving political power the ascendancy over legitimate authority.

The provenance of some of this concern is perhaps unsurprising given that the crowds who came (over 6000 to the Oxford Oratory, for instance) included a minority of Senior Citizens, who might possibly remember the cult of relics from their youth, but was mainly made up by the young and middle - aged.

My point of the post is that people don't know about religion because it has been taken away from us by small minority groups.

The gop has alienated so many people from so many walks of life that the only voter represented by them will be a 50 year old white man who mistrusts minorities and women and unions and non christians and seniors and government employees and teachers and librarians and nurses and postal workers and immigrants and firefighters and I have probably left out quite a few of you who they have managed to insult this past year.

Christians however have been targeted with criminal charges by a police force as zealous as the extremists they are meant to be protecting vulnerable minorities from.

[3] He described the idea that a fetus is a person from the moment of conception as a «minority dogma» by which the majority of Americans was being «tyrannized.»

«Internationally the Government must take a lead in its role on the UN Security Council to support calls from the United Nation's own committees for the creation of a «safe zone» in Iraq, enforced by UN peacekeepers, to protect the country's minorities.

I think this is due to the fact that atheists are a small minority in the US and they are responding to the marginalization of their beliefs in what is supposed to be a country that supports freedom of (and therefore from) religious expression by lashing out.

The event came after 808,172 people from 142 countries signed a petition, launched by Open Doors, asking the UK government and the United Nations to ensure that Middle Eastern Christians - and other minorities - enjoy the right to equal citizenship, dignified living conditions and a prominent role in reconciling and rebuilding their society.

Kovind's election on July 17 followed weeks of protests from Christians and Muslims angered by attacks on religious minorities for eating beef, which angered Hindutva extremists due to Hindus» veneration of cows.

From the beginning of what we may call the «gender revolution» in the 1970s to now, when the goals of a minority of western agents of change are about to take on a more visible, global and powerfully financed institutional form, the normative and operational activities of the gender equality process has been led by «experts», NGOs, UN Secretariat bureaucrats, panels - not by the man - on - the - street or his legitimate representative.

More churches should be led by female priests and those «who come from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups», the new Bishop of London has said.

«If our churches are going to be more relevant to our communities, that means increasing churches that are led by priests that are women, who come from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups,» she said.

In North America, where Orthodoxy is a tiny minority, it is often easier to learn about the faith through the Internet than from the nearest Orthodox priest, who may be a long drive away, speak poor English, or be baffled by the very existence of a «regular American» interested in the Church.

The provocative thesis will be deemed heresy by partisans of «the judicial usurpation of politics»,» who inevitably assume that the rights of minorities receive their greatest protection from the courts.

KC: Right from the days of Plato's Republic politics has been controlled by a powerful minority.

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Polarization took over, and by the time the Democratic Party (with the almost unanimous support of mainline liberal churchpeople) had reformed itself enough to take the presidential nomination from traditional liberals and bestow it on a more radical candidate, the crusade's tactics had doomed the movement to minority status.

It is understood that the appeal they are making is not different in substance from the appeal made by those sexual minorities whose progress has come ahead of theirs.

The assimilative force of the dominant culture is so great that few minority cultures are in position to learn from it without being absorbed by it.

Supporters of the need for Trump's plan often cite the well - documented fact that ISIS has committed genocide against Christians and other minorities, yet the US refugee program has resettled far more Muslims than Christians from Syria, as noted by Kirsten Powers and others.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).