Sentences with phrase «disproportionate number people»

This random questioning is not connected to any specific crime and the encounters are not really random at all - a disproportionate number people who are carded are visible minorities.

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Namie agrees that turnover — a disproportionate number of people leaving your office or unit, and few people wanting to come in from elsewhere in the company — is another sure sign that something's amiss.

Mozaffarian also mentioned that the disproportionate number of younger people drinking sugary beverages compared with elderly people would dramatically increase the number of people who have diseases related to the drinks.

The association of childhood bereavement with success (a disproportionate number of accomplished people lost parents early) is a bit of an eyebrow raiser, but the theme of personal compensation for adversity rings true.

On an anecdotal level, a disproportionate number of the people on our BNN TV show The Disruptors are immigrants or second - generation immigrants who exemplify a culture of entrepreneurship and are hungry to get ahead.

I think religious people aren't necessarily less intelligent or less educated than atheists — although a disproportionate number of highly educated people tend to reject religion.

In addition, the databases that are based on mug shots will have a disproportionate number of black people in their database, potentially perpetuating the pattern of disproportionate arrests.

For whatever reason, online social networks seem to attract a disproportionate number of politically active people.

The government hopes that changing the system will help get more people from more deprived backgrounds into Britain's top universities, many of which are still taking a disproportionate number of students from the private sector.

The protestors said they wanted to draw attention to the recent deaths at the county Holding Center, the disproportionate number of people of color who are incarcerated, as well as Howard's participation at a recent «Spirit of America» rally in downtown Buffalo at which Aryan Nation supporters attended.

Police Commissioner James O'Neill did acknowledge there is an issue with a disproportionate number of arrests for black and Latino people compared to whites.

Candidates have to tailor their messages to small numbers of voters in the early primaries, so a few thousand people in New Hampshire and a handful of other states have a disproportionate influence on the direction of the presidential race.

If their local demographic situation is imbalanced, with a disproportionate number of single men or women, this could lead to the state of affairs that it is virtually impossible for a person to find a partner.

It's a fact - based exploration of a phenomenon in Nome, Alaska, where a disproportionate number of people have gone missing for four decades.

The City of Manukau Education Trust is a not - for - profit organization established to work in a city with a disproportionate number of poorly educated people, so it was ideally suited to develop and implement this unusual approach.

We've stood by as the concentration of wealth have made it possible for small groups of extremely wealthy people to wield power far disproportionate to their number, leading to inaction on issues as broad - ranging as climate change to gun policy.

«The problem is not the number of people,» he said, but rather that countries like the United States «consume a disproportionate share of the Earth's bounty.»

This may be especially important for older people, who in disproportionate numbers deny climate change.

This con nement of recursive hypotheses to a small \ echo chamber» re ects the wider phenomenon of radical climate denial, whose ability to generate the appearance of a widely held opinion on the internet is disproportionate to the smaller number of people who actually hold those views (e.g., Leviston, Walker, & Morwinski, 2013).

That includes people who walk, and the more vulnerable members of society who get killed in disproportionate numbers - older and younger people.

«A disproportionate number of people who are less emotionally astute gravitate into the legal profession.»

Criticisms of this strategy center on the disproportionate number of black people questioned.

People are mad because cops arrest and kill a massively disproportionate number of black people (caveat: most common data sources are definitely problematic), and the killing of Mike Brown finally got people pissed off enough to take to the stPeople are mad because cops arrest and kill a massively disproportionate number of black people (caveat: most common data sources are definitely problematic), and the killing of Mike Brown finally got people pissed off enough to take to the stpeople (caveat: most common data sources are definitely problematic), and the killing of Mike Brown finally got people pissed off enough to take to the stpeople pissed off enough to take to the streets.

In a passionate discourse on the «disproportionate» impact on persons of color of «the humiliations of... unconstitutional searches,» Justice Sotomayor also cited a number of books dating back to 1903 showing that «[f] or generations, black and brown parents have given their children the «talk»... all out of fear of how an officer with a gun will react to them.»

Strathy also touched upon the urgent need for the province to tackle the disproportionate number of aboriginal people who are incarcerated, as well as expanding the Unified Family Court system.

Particularly in the area of criminal justice, it notes in an interim report the historic discrimination Aboriginal people have suffered at the hands of an essentially European legal system, the disproportionate numbers of Aboriginal people incarcerated, and recommends the creation or recognition of Aboriginal justice systems to deal with offences and rehabilitation in culturally appropriate ways.

With 40 % of homeless youth identifying as LGBT, it's not surprising that a disproportionate number of LGBT people relative to their heterosexual peers are in poverty.

the broad reach of some categories of the new income management measure, particularly where they could result in a disproportionate number of Aboriginal people being unnecessarily income - managed, and

The broad reach of some categories of the new income management measure that could result in a disproportionate number of Aboriginal people being unnecessarily income - managed.

«The Royal Commission found that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people died in custody in disproportionate numbers because they were in custody in disproportionate numbers,» Commissioner Gooda said.

This indicates that the disproportionate number of Indigenous deaths in custody relative to the total Indigenous population is a reflection of the over-representation of Indigenous peoples in criminal justice processes.

People don't write Letters to the Editor when they are happy about something, so we do get a disproportionate number of negative comments.