Sentences with phrase «divided by the races»

First, as the people of South Africa were divided by the race - based ideology of apartheid, so the people of Ukraine are divided by the ethnicity - based ideology of the «Russian world.»

Churches and Christians divided by race and culture have the opportunity to work together on the front lines of the fight against spiritual darkness and nurture the hope and faith that might prevent more deaths like the one Freddie Gray suffered.

We both wept that the church continues to be sharply divided by race and class, political party and wedge issues, and not united by the blood of Jesus.

you will see a town divided by race.

However I want to make it clear that He didn't come to divide us by race, but by His kingdom and the rest of the world.

Something similar might again be possible in the U.S. if those who are divided by race and class begin to talk about their problems in concrete terms at the local level.

Separating children for the sake of prayer or worship could prove extremely divisive in public schools already divided by race and other factors.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said that remaining divided by race hurts us all.

In the case of Marcus Nispel's movie, set in snowy North America circa 1000 AD, the men are divided by race and morality.

It's a story about a friendship between veterans, bonded by war but divided by race, in the Jim Crow South.

The default position is that whenever a government policy divides us by race and then divvies up benefits, it violates the equal protection clause.

Washington, however, is a city starkly divided by race and income, which prevents Haynes from achieving significant diversity.

Over a decade after the Court's ruling, Hartford - area schools remain divided by race and class.

U.S. schools have become more segregated since 1990, and students in major metropolitan areas have been most severely divided by race and income, according to the University of California at Los Angeles's Civil Rights Project.

Those dismal marks came just as the veteran educator was in the early stages of overhauling all nine district schools in an attempt to drastically improve academic achievement in the community, an impoverished Mississippi Delta town that is still deeply divided by race.

Will their love exist in a world divided by the races?

Not exact matches

This summer, the New York Times concluded a lengthy series on the perceptions of race among Americans by saying: «The series has portrayed a stubbornly enduring racial divide, and the poll suggested that even as the rawest forms of bigotry have receded they have often been replaced by remoteness and distrust in places of work, learning and worship.»

In the post, he recommended A Different Mirror, Between the World and Me, The Cross the Lynching Tree, Divided by Faith, Just Mercy, Let Nobody Turn Us Around, More than Just Race, The New Jim Crow, The Warmth of Other Suns and Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria.

He has a presentiment of the dreadful event, that a jealous criticism will many a time let him feel the birch; he trembles at the still more dreadful thought that one or another enterprising scribe, a gulper of paragraphs, who to rescue learning is always willing to do with other peoples» writings what Trop «to save appearances» magnanimously resolved to do, though it were «the destruction of the human race» — that is, he will slice the author into paragraphs, and will do it with the same inflexibility as the man who in the interest of the science of punctuation divided his discourse by counting the words, so that there were fifty words for a period and thirty - five for a semicolon.

Ours is a society sharply divided by lines of race and class, profoundly anxious about its future, and more fearful now of the threats posed by our neighbors at home than by any foreign enemy.

Alex Donohue of Ladbrokes attempts to make the argument for why the Chilean would make the most acrimonious move possible: «Sanchez wants a capital city club with a winning mentality and now that Spurs are back in the title race, the odds of a sensational switch across the North London divide are shortening by the minute.

Mean and standard errors of monthly weight gain after adjusting for maternal age; race / ethnicity; education; household income; marital status; parity; postpartum Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children program participation; prepregnancy body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared); infant sex; gestational age; birth weight; age at solid food introduction; and sweet drinks consumption.

The race is a likely battleground this fall for control of the narrowly divided state Senate, now led by Republicans.

The race for the 9th Senate district is a hotly contested one for both parties given the narrow divide in the chamber, currently led by Republicans.

The Democrat and Republican in a special House election in the heart of Pennsylvania's Trump country were divided by a few hundred votes in a race that was too close to call early this morning — an ominous sign for Republicans in a district that the president won by nearly 20 percentage points.

The fact that the race was close, or that two other «yes» voters — Sens. Mark Grisanti and Steve Saland — managed to hold into their seats (albeit narrowly in Saland's case), is being spun by both sides as proof that New Yorkers, and the nation at large, remain closely divided on the question of whether gay couples should be allowed to legally wed..

Labor was divided in that race, which ended up being carried by Espaillat's hand - picked successor, Marisol Alcantara, who was also backed by IDC Leader Jeff Klein, of the Bronx, and has indicated (though her spokeswoman, Lis Smith) that she will join the breakaway GOP - allied IDC conference after her all - but - certain general election win in November.

For all the talk of Mr. de Blasio presiding over a newly - divided New York, it's been rare when the city, rented by race, class and religion, has been in harmony on the most fundamental political questions.

In states with narrowly divided statehouses like Iowa, Colorado, New Hampshire, and Oregon, it was able to help surgically remove threats of gay - marriage bans and build momentum behind same - sex marriage laws and other gay - rights legislation, by injecting millions of dollars from a vast network of donors into select races.

Washington, DC — Five months after Doug Hoffman exposed a deep divide in the Republican Party by launching a third - party bid for Congress, the odds are suddenly improving for a repeat three - way race in the 23rd Congressional District this fall.

De Blasio ran in 2013 by promising to end the divide between the rich and poor, and will focus this race on trumpeting his record doing that, Walzak said.

Racial Divide One aspect of maternal mortality that has not changed over the years is the extent to which it varies by race.

Covariates included the child's sex, calendar conception year (categorical variable), gestational age, maternal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared)(BMI < 18.5 = underweight; 18.5 ≤ BMI < 25 = normal weight; 25 ≤ BMI < 30 = overweight; BMI ≥ 30 = obese), maternal age at delivery (younger than 20, 20 to 24, 25 to 29, 30 to 34, and ≥ 35 years), maternal education at delivery (≤ high school graduate, some college education, college graduate, postgraduate, or unknown), maternal race / ethnicity (Asian, black, white, or other), and gestational diabetes (yes / no).

The UK is becoming a racial melting pot with a surge in the number of relationships and marriages across ethnic dividing lines in the last decade, according to official figures.But while the number of people from black, Asian and mixed - race backgrounds settling down with someone from another group have all risen, white people remain by far the most segregated on the domestic front.

When balance is tipped by the new kids of the Toshi group, the school divides into two and the fight will at last be settled in a high - speed drift race!

It may be the most significant irony in our history that racism, by dividing the two races, has made them not separate but in a fundamental way inseparable, not independent but dependent on each other, incomplete without each other, each needing desperately to understand and make use of the experience of the other... we are one body, and the division between us is the disease of one body, not of two.

Bridging the divide by giving young people an entry point into the painful realities of race in America

Another unintended consequence of ability grouping may be its potential to divide students by class and race.

For example, «Vouchers have failed because they generally produce greater socioeconomic concentration not less; divert funds to the wealthy; and will further divide Americans by race and religion.»

I grew up in Baltimore, which is a city that is as divided as any I know by race and class.

National Survey also reveals increased support for virtual schooling, support for charter schools rises sharply in minority communities CAMBRIDGE, MA - The fourth annual survey conducted by Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) and Education Next on a wide range of education issues released today reveals that the broader public and teachers are markedly divided in their support for merit pay, teacher tenure, and Race to the Top (RttT).

The BCR study calculated suspension rates as the number of suspensions involving a particular race divided by the student enrollment of that race.

In his book Coming Apart, the social scientist Charles Murray warned us that we are becoming a nation divided less by race than class.

CAMBRIDGE, MA - The fourth annual survey conducted by Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) and Education Next on a wide range of education issues released today reveals that the broader public and teachers are markedly divided in their support for merit pay, teacher tenure, and Race to the Top (RttT).

In an article by Kate Zernike, the NYT explores the divide over charter schools through conversations on race, wealth and access to options with representatives from DFER, NAACP, Movement for Black Lives and Education Post's very own Chris Stewart who comments on his personal mission to find a quality school for his son.

Even as the party itself is divided over embracing Common Core standards, has a retrograde on education in the form of House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who wants to eviscerate the strong accountability measures contained in the No Child Left Behind Act), and had a primary race for the presidential nod that had seen aspirants backtrack (of offer little information) on their respective school reform agendas, Republicans were able to paper over these issues thanks to strong calls by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Texas teacher Sean Duffy, and onetime Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for expanding school choice, advancing Parent Power, and overhauling how teachers are recruited, trained, managed, and compensated.

Schools are divided both by race and by poverty.

When a war divided their race, each side was led by twin sons of the Sivadian king.

In fact, it is more often divided by class than race and is a hodge podge of sub-cultures that tend to group by ethnicity (but not always), and tribal groups.

The two conflicting races can't co-exist, so they're divided by a massive wall.