Sentences with phrase «by minority groups»

of the constant adversity raced in everyday life by minority groups, including Indigenous peoples.

While not as diverse as many other Georgia cities when it comes to the make - up of business ownership, the number of Savannah's small business that are owned by minority groups is growing.

«Although these criteria would prohibit the establishment of schools designed for any single racial or ethnic group, the committee appreciates the complexity of this issue and suggests that the Legislature might wish to deal separately with voluntarily segregated schools established by minority groups.»

ODEP recently launched the Add Us In initiative, which identifies and develops strategies to increase employment opportunities for job - seekers with disabilities in the small business market, especially those owned by minority groups.

Passage of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment («Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...») was one of the first effective exertions of political muscle by minority groups in the United States.

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.

These are blunt comments, and they exemplify the dark side of Silicon Valley: that an elite group of power brokers, exemplified by Arrington, is totally ignorant of the hurdles faced by minority groups.

Article 15 - A of New York State Executive Law, § § 310 - 318 (Participation by Minority Group Members and Women with Respect to State Contracts), was enacted July 19, 1988 and amended in 2011 to promote economic opportunities and equality of employment for minority group members and women in State contracting activities.

COCOBOD has debunked assertions by the Minority group in Parliament that government is offering cocoa producers a terrible deal by its decision not to increase cocoa producer price due to fall in world market price.

Because the Bitcoin Cash fork was created by a minority group of miners, many services still regard the Segwit - chain as «Bitcoin,» although the two can be more accurately thought of as relatives sharing a common ancestor.

Not exact matches

Contact with women and ethnic minorities lessens unconscious bias, but since neither group is represented much in the upper echelons of business, it can be hard for executives to get that exposure — something not helped by the fact that many white, male higher - ups feel they don't know how to talk to younger women or minorities.

When I was preparing to speak to a group of Black corporate directors several years ago, I was asked a straightforward question: How much money does the foundation I run invest with firms owned by women or minorities?

Defense's practice of giving minority companies a 10 percent price credit meant that companies owned by certain socially and economically disadvantaged groups did not have to be the lowest bidder to win federal contracts, and helped the department achieve the congressionally mandated goal.

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.

In March, United Nations investigators concluded that disinformation campaigns facilitated by Facebook have played a «determining role» in inciting violence against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority ethnic group.

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.

The term «dark money» is often applied to this category of political spender because these groups do not have to disclose the sources of their funding — though a minority do disclose some or all of their donors, by choice or in response to specific circumstances.

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.

With an increasingly diversified group of investors made available to new startups, experts expect increased funding for women and minorities by women and minorities.

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.

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.

Sina Weibo, the microblogging platform similar to Twitter that is minority owned by the Alibaba Group is another example.

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.

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).

Religion News Service: Black pastors move to counter new voter ID laws African - American clergy are joining forces with civil rights groups to push for increased voter registration ahead of the November election, spurred on by new voter laws they say restrict opportunities for minorities to enter the voting booth.

By the way, essentually every minority group has been persecuted, throughout history, christians are not special in that regard.

that minimizes the historical suffering of women and minority groups in this country, 2) an overwrought persecution complex that confuses sharing civil rights with others with being persecuted by them, and 3) a persistent fear of the perceived «other» — Muslims, LGBT people, immigrants, refugees, etc. — that results in culture wars meant to «take back» the public square.

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.

Freedom of religion is guaranteed by Article 29 of Indonesia's constitution, yet some regencies have adopted Shari'ah in a way that further marginalizes minority groups, said Syafi'i Anwar, executive director of the International Center for Islam and Pluralism.

CIT said it will submit a complaint to the Equality Commission in Northern Ireland against what it calls «viewpoint discrimination» and refusal of services by Queen's University to those representing a valid ex-gay minority group.

On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islam.

We know that the equality movement has been driven by concern for minority groups.

Those who share in the criticisms but believe that they can be internalized into Christianity are in the minority among the academic students of religion and are often ridiculed and ostracized by the dominant group.

Faiez's family left their home in Mosul when extremist Islamic group IS took over the city, giving Christians and other minorities a chilling ultimatum: convert, leave, or die by the sword.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

During the late 1920s and early 1930s there was concern on the part of Catholic politicians in Italy and also the Vatican about proselytism by Protestant minority groups.

Swaggart's claim was supported by mainstream religious groups who understand that the rights of the majority depend upon our protecting the rights of the minority, and even the marginal.

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.

To illustrate the application of this principle, a youth group followed their discussion of techniques for diminishing prejudice by role playing the experiences of minority group members.

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.

Judging by the actions of fringe extremist groups to those entire theocratic governments, it would seem that the peace - loving Muslim is actually the minority.

Even before the American Revolution, «education became an instrument, deliberately used, by which dominant groups sought to recreate an ideal unity and minorities struggled to retain their group's identity.

Such models do not create genuine pluralism; rather they perpetuate unity in conformity, meaning that the experiences of ethnic minority social groups are unacceptable when they fail to coincide with the normative criteria of human experience prescribed by the white majority social group.

A recent study of Hispanic churches revealed a consistent pattern among this group (the largest of America's minority groups, one continually replenished by immigrants): Hispanics, whether Catholic or Protestant, tend to be conservative on issues of sexual morality but liberal on issues of the economy and minority rights.

Lively's work in Uganda led to a lawsuit against him under the Alien Tort Claims Act, filed March 14, 2012, by Se.xual Minorities Uganda, an LGBT rights group in that country, and the Center for Consti.tutional Rights in the U.S..

The brunt of the responsibility rests on those who are the aggressors, however, there exists in every race a group of ignorants that add fuel to the racist fire by either being racists themselves and / or perpetuating stereotypes that add to the racism despite these groups often being a minority within the larger race.

A person who is frightened by life and unable to accept his own negative impulses may project these onto minority groups.

In 1947 a group of American blacks led by W. E. B. Du Bois, under the auspices of the NAACP, had appealed to the UN to redress «the denial of human rights to minorities in the case of citizens of Negro descent in the United States of America.»

The term «Rohingya» is shunned by many in Burma because the ethnic group is not a recognised minority in the country.