Sentences with phrase «countries are in the minority»

But it also means that when countries are in the minority they must sometimes accept decisions they do not want, even affecting domestic matters with no market implications beyond their borders.

Not exact matches

Women are starting businesses at twice the rate of men, and in 25 years, the U.S. will be a «majority minority» country.

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The move means no Latino will serve in a presidential cabinet for the first time in nearly 30 years and comes at a time when Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the country.

Myanmar's military has been accused of instigating the persecution of the ethnic minority, which has been denied citizenship in the predominantly Buddhist country.

Jews in other words are in a definite retailing minority over the country.

«No matter where they were born, [these students] are going to be tomorrow's entrepreneurs and people creating jobs in this country,» he told the audience, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.

There are certainly areas of desperation, including unemployment among minority youth and individuals with disabilities, but at the current unemployment rate of 4.6 %, my impression is that the «jobs crisis» in this country is actually better described as an income crisis, because wages and salaries as a share of total income remain near record lows.

«Startup Runway is among the leading platforms in the country to help investors and minority startups connect.

About NMSDC One of the country's leading corporate membership organizations, NMSDC was chartered in 1972 to provide increased procurement and business opportunities for minority businesses of all sizes.

The same is true of gender and minority representation, since the expectations of the day, unfortunate as they were, didn't commonly include the belief held by many today that Parliament should look, think, and care about issues in broadly similar ways to the country at large.

«They didn't have a voice or outlet, so they created satiric punk songs that put them on the map and gave them a voice about what it's like to be a practicing minority in a country where there's suspicion about their loyalties.

Please put this in perspective, and imagine that the tables were turned — and this sort of billboard were as commonplace as Christian signs and crosses all around the country — and you were the ones in the minority.

«We are deeply concerned at the trend of increasing attacks on religious minorities in the country, and especially in Chhattisgarh State, which betray India's pluralistic heritage.

Mumtaz Qadri (below) was the bodyguard of the governor of Punjab Province Salman Taseer, but he murdered him in 2011 because he was an outspoken critic of the country's blasphemy laws - which are often used to target Christians and other minorities.

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.

When minorities were oppressed in this country, the oppressors used the bible and images of Jesus as a means to glorify their methods and rascist philosphies.

Faith may be affirming to this minority of folks in this country who are RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS, but YOUR ignorance is truly an affront to humanity.

Even though the constitution of Iran - a predominantly Shiite Muslim country - guarantees equality to members of religious minorities, that has not been the case in practice.

Minorities are legally protected from discrimination in this country because of people like you who use the bible as an excuse for your own fear and hate.

We must be concerned with how Muslim, as well as Christian, minorities are treated in Islamic countries.We must be concerned about the Muslim scholars who are persecuted in their own countries or are forced into exile.

And countries from which a significant share of refugees in recent years have been persecuted religious minorities — such as Iran, where Christians and religious minorities have made up 95 percent of refugees in recent years — are blocked for at least 90 days and possibly longer.

While evangelicals remain a small minority in many countries, notes missions researcher Justin Long in crunching Operation World's latest research, world Christianity is becoming more evangelical.

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.

To claim that the lighting of a national Christmas tree each year makes this country «a Christian nation,» while its powerful systematically oppress the poor, turn away refugees, incite violence against religious and ethnic minorities, molest and harass women and girls and call them liars when they dare to speak up, is, in the words of the prophet Amos, sickening to God.

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.

AND FINALLY, AFFIRM that it is unconscionable to employ religion for the purpose of aggressing upon the rights of religious minorities in Muslim countries.

FOX, we're sick of your disrespectful hammering on women, the middle class, the poor and every other minority in the country.

As far as tolerance is concerned, there is little occasion for tolerating non-Muslims in Turkey today, as the country all but eliminated its once sizable Christian minorities through mass murder and deportation in the last century.

In a country of 162 million people tensions often lead to violent uprisings between Christians and Muslims and being part of the religious minority can be an issue.

Their law permits them, as a temporary expedient, not to impose it in full in countries where they are in a minority: but in areas within that country which they consider to be Muslim territory and therefore part of the Umma, like large parts of Bradford, say, or certain parts of London, more of Sharia law will be imposed (unknown to the rest of us) than in others.

Most Russian evangelicals don't have concrete expectations for Trump to incite change in a country where they have always been the restricted minority.

The discomfort of conservative Christians whose views on gender and sexuality are being challenged more than they once were is nothing compared to the suffering faced by LGBT people and religious and ethnic minorities in this country.

They are the persecuted minority in Egypt that are used as «whipping boys» every time there is a clash between the West and the Islamic countries.

!!!! The more freedom we give those Muslims by letting them wearing their scary Islamic clothes, opening mosques (paying no tax), shoveling their evil religion in our throats, wanting Sharia Laws, etc. — the more problems will be caused!!!!!!!! Most Muslims are extremists, and even «moderate» Muslims still support them, so we should NOT tolerate them and we should BAN Islam unless they allow other religious minority in their countries to live in peace!!!!!

There are plenty to note in recent decades: Poland's Jerzy Popiełusko, beaten and drowned by thugs in his country's police force; his compatriot St John Paul, surviving an assassin's bullet in St Peter's Square and an attempted stabbing by a schismatic priest; Archbishop Oscar Romero, slaughtered while celebrating Mass, Pakistan's Shabaz Bhatti, Minister for Minorities in his country's government, killed by a gunman in Islamabad in 2011.

God forbid you are Christian minority in any Muslim country!

His petition, signed by 750,000 in 143 countries, urges that the rights of Christians and other minorities as citizens of Middle Eastern countries be recognised, and that they have access to «dignified» living conditions.

Trump wants to give «priority» to non-Muslims, despite the fact that more Christians than Muslims have been resettled since 9/11: The executive order says it will «prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious - based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual's country of nationality.»

Christians are a very small minority in the mostly Muslim country and frequently face violence and persecution.

Indeed, these are good examples — people are perceiving Islam as some minority — yet harmless ideology that espouses nice values, it doesn't all people need do is look at the UK, France etc today — do the research — the people in these countries are already seeing a decline in their quality of life as Islam grows, why should a person tolerate something that is a threat to them I often ask.

Yes, they showed the gentleman converting for the sake of his wife but to show someone who was born and raised in America, not growing up, as I mentioned before, in an Islamic country; being raised Christian who is also a minority.

«The belief that corruption is the important issue in the country is shared only by the minority living in urban areas and towns who have been beneficiaries of economic liberalization policies mandated by western countries.

Only a small minority (5 %) of the national academy of sciences believes in a personal prayer answering god — the «Born Again» Christian world view is an antiquated backward way of thinking that only serves to hold back the progress of this country and the world.

There's hope among Pakistan's religious minorities that the country's first census in nearly 20 years... More

The spokesman continued, «The report was a classical example of disinformation aimed at creating disturbances in a country where people have been living so long with minorities enjoying full rights.

Thus, ethnic minorities in Muslim countries are, for the most part, totally ignored.

You don't know what it is to be a hated minority in this country until you're something other than a christian.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

What is troubling to me are professed Christians in this country who also would like to get rid of the minority that do not believe as they do.