Sentences with phrase «efforts small minorities»

Through their efforts small minorities of Christians arose in all the major and some of the smaller countries in the region.

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Notwithstanding the Iraqi government's «efforts to increase security for religious sites and worshippers, provide a stronger voice for Iraq's smallest minorities in parliament, and revise secondary school textbooks to portray minorities in a more positive light,» the report states, the government «continues to tolerate systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations, including violent religiously - motivated attacks.»

In addition to ensuring our suppliers comply with the food safety standards recognized by Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), we make a concerted effort to give diverse companies such as small, women - owned, minority - owned and veteran - owned businesses the opportunity to supply quality product options that meet our company's growing business needs.

Given conflicting data indicating that 90 % of districts are already meeting the standards successfully, many school food advocates have asked the obvious question: instead of weakening nutrition — a move that directly harms kids — why not put more effort into helping the small minority of districts that are struggling?

Germany imposed a 5 % threshold on its election process primarily to put a barrier in the way of efforts for small minority neo-Nazi parties to elect legislators.

A small minority buck the trend through great efforts of self - discipline, but the overwhelming majority are the victims of the great economic and social forces that generate obesity.

Bloomberg, meanwhile, defended the administration's efforts to create opportunities for small, and minority - and women - owned businesses, including new programs to help them secure loans, partner with larger business and get technical assistance.

«This relatively small increase may have been the result of an increase in the percentage of faculty hires that involve underrepresented minority faculty and efforts to increase the pipeline of medical school faculty.»

It was one of the first five small, autonomous schools to be approved by the beleaguered Oakland Unified School District, the fruits of a nearly ten - year - long community effort to institute grassroots reform for Oakland's poor, mostly minority students.

Even with these small minority populations, the conflict generated in these cities over efforts to move students to achieve economic balance in the schools was considerable.

Caperton points to Florida as «an example of what a statewide effort will do» to increase AP participation, especially in rural, small, or heavily minority schools.

So they put all this effort into developing & launching these devices that will only ever likely address a small minority of their base.

The book criticizes a «small but vocal minority of cat advocates» for campaigning against efforts to euthanize and / or forcibly remove cats from the outdoors.

In addition, this issue looks at strategic alliances between large law firms and smaller minority owned firms for the purpose of promoting diversity; a new online journal about law firm innovation; and opportunities for innovative and progressive law firms to apply for awards that recognize their efforts.