Sentences with phrase «by small minority»

At this stage, it appears the fork is only supported by a small minority of platforms, users and miners.

That is up from at least 90 percent in the last report in 2007, 66 percent in 2001, and just over 50 in 1995, steadily squeezing out the arguments by a small minority of scientists that natural variations in the climate might be to blame.

with small bits of interesting discussion mixed in by a small minority of participants... What to say?

The deceptive practices that make up the Playbook are used by a small minority of companies — and yet, as we show, they are found across a broad range of industries, from fossil fuels to professional sports.

It is a stark example as well of how public debate on topics deemed delicate here can be easily muffled by a small minority, the most vocal of whom are the country's estimated 10,000 rightists who espouse hard - line stances in disputes against Tokyo's neighbors.

Even though communities sometimes have one opponent who is very vocal and makes it seem like people want the cats gone, that idea is held by a small minority.

It is eaten by a small minority of Chinese, and the practice is fading as dogs become a popular pet.

At this point the critical reader has probably discerned a basic investment principle which by and large seems only to be understood by a small minority of successful investors.

There's been an off - and - on - again call by a small minority of professional genealogists to strictly regulate who may call himself a professional.

«The lost entitlements among workless families are largely driven by the small minority of them whose unearned income or assets disqualify them from universal credit altogether.

The constant repetition of that lie by a small minority of idiots among the Remain camp may have led these sick individuals to think that 52 per cent of the population quietly agreed with them.

The answer is for the left to win arguments with real people and stop is time honoured Fabian strategy of, manipulating the system to vastly exaggerate the power held by a small minority whilst simultaneously complaining about their inability to concentrate even more power with Left Liberal courtiers via PR What the left hate and what they can not admit is that their leaders despise the views of many of their voters, perhaps a majority.

The larger part of this process is carried on by the small minority of people in the developed countries, who consume by far the largest part of these and other resources.

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».

It's a painful process, and one that is very often ridiculed by a small minority of our society.

The latter is very powerful and has given us our present level of technology with all of its comforts, but these advances were created by a small minority.

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.

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.

Because the shareholders hold the residual claim, and all corporate expenditures thus come out of their pocket, it is not entirely clear why other shareholders should have to subsidize speech by a small minority.

Not exact matches

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.

Detroit also has the fourth - largest number of minority - owned small businesses among American cities, though it ranks only 23rd by population.

To date, the entrepreneur fund has channeled $ 4.5 million to 43 minority - owned small businesses, of which 53 % are owned by women.

Absent such a standard, the shareholder proposal rule becomes nothing less than a species of private eminent domain by which the federal government allows a small minority to appropriate someone else's property — the company is a legal person, after all, and it is the company's proxy statement at issue — for use as a soap - box to disseminate their views.

The diverse suppler program encourages the use of businesses owned by; minorities, women, service disabled veterans, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender)- owned and small businesses as suppliers.

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.

PNC's Supplier Diversity Program seeks to develop relationships with business enterprises that are at least 51 % owned, operated and controlled by minorities, women, LGBT, people with disability and small business enterprises.

This seminar will assist you with resources available for small businesses, including the programs and services provided by the Women's Business Center (WBC) and N.C. Institute of Minority Economic Development (NCIMED).

For example, a Heritage Foundation document titled «Time to Repeal Federal Death Taxes: The Nightmare of the American Dream» emphasizes stories that rarely, if ever, happen in real life: «Small - business owners, particularly minority owners, suffer anxious moments wondering whether the businesses they hope to hand down to their children will be destroyed by the death tax bill,... Women whose children are grown struggle to find ways to re-enter the work force without upsetting the family's estate tax avoidance plan.»

By God's grace, a very small minority then began to realize what Jesus had accomplished, and they spread the Truth at great risk to their earthly lives.

Can money be invested in small, local businesses, especially minority ones, or those operated by students?

It is hard to see how a commitment to pacifism will ever be held by more than a small minority of Christians in the U.S., especially after the September 11 attacks.

The projects were also marked by rigid racial discrimination, with Boston's relatively small African - American population housed in separate and unequal projects in minority neighborhoods.

Most faiths are minority faiths, held by only a small portion of the culture in which they are located, and to proclaim them is usually a case of «singing the Lord's song in a strange land» (Psalm 137), whether «the Lord» is the one described by Mark or by Marx.

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.

This small minority interpret their belief the wrong way and do so by caring out acts of violence.

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.

Mathematicians have calculated that within 100 years religion as we know it here in the states will only be practiced by a very small minority.

To judge an entire religion by the acts of a very small minority is preposterous.

It should be empha sized that this view is shared by only a small minority.

Terrorism is not sanctioned by the Koran, either, and Muslims who practice it are the small (yet sometimes most visible) minority, similar to KKK memberss who are a lso terrorists yet proclaim to be Christian.

Last week, Nepal enacted a law to curb evangelism by criminalizing religious conversion, joining neighboring countries like India and Pakistan, where the region's small - but - growing Christian minority faces government threats to their faith.

«For three years, the Christians, Yizidis and others of the smallest religious minorities have been targeted by ISIS with beheadings, crucifixions, rape, torture and sexual enslavement....

Empowering subjugated minorities in India by splitting it into smaller states would trigger uber economic demand for western nations who have given so much financial and technology aid to India with no return to show for the investment.

With the exception of a very small minority of Roman Catholics, they were Protestant by background, but at the mid-eighteenth century probably only about five out of a hundred were church members.

By the end of the eighteenth century persecution gradually ceased, but the Protestants had been reduced to a small minority.

The question of saving power in the nation is the question of whether there is a minority, even a small one, which is willing to resist the anxiety produced by propaganda, the conformity enforced by threat, the hatred stimulated by ignorance.

Except in a few small islands in the Pacific, until 1914 the Christian communities which arose from missions from the West were small minorities, Christian enclaves in overwhelming non-Christian populations, dependent on continued infusions from Europe and America and regarded by the non-Christian neighbors as aliens, the religious phase of Western imperialism and colonialism.

Significantly, all these Protestant organizations for carrying the Gospel to other lands arose from small minorities while Europe was racked by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.

Only a small minority of Roman Catholics, led by an eminent historian, Johann Josef Ignaz von Dollinger (1799 - 1890), declared that the Vatican decrees were untrue to history and, excommunicated by the Pope, constituted themselves the Old Catholic Church.

Cut off for several months from his lecture course, which was now being given by someone else, he was already in less of a central position, an ex-member of a deputation that had failed in its object, and now in a small minority on a matter of policy.