Sentences with phrase «ethnic community in»

The federal agency says it was not referring to any particular ethnic community in the document.

During the 300 years before the Incas» arrival in 1450, intentional head shaping among prominent members of the Collagua ethnic community in Peru increasingly centered on a stretched - out look, says bioarchaeologist...

It is a tragic feature of the contemporary West that the Jews have so often been invoked as a convenient stand - in for the evils wrought by elites afraid of community — a typical response of those who would attempt to sacralize an ethnic community in order to form a new chosen people, as described by David P. Goldman.

Six Bachama ethnic communities in Adamawa State have vowed to drag the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over alleged bombings of...

I am very clear that integration between ethnic communities in the United Kingdom has worked well and has delivered great benefits for all of us.

His clients range from the very rich to the most disadvantaged members of our society, and he is extremely proud to receive referrals from most of the varied ethnic communities in the Greater Toronto Area.

My clients range from the very rich to the most disadvantaged members of our society, and I am extremely proud to receive referrals from most of the varied ethnic communities in the Greater Toronto Area.

However, as this report outlines, emerging and established ethnic communities in Australia still experience significant challenges in relation to their social and economic participation, safety and health and wellbeing.

Not exact matches

Almost 80,000 people live in this community with a range of ethnic backgrounds.

Students of all ethnic backgrounds who attend community colleges are not recruited as heavily as students from Ivy League schools, although they may have the skill - set necessary to succeed in a given role.

Based on data from the American Community Survey, there is a racial and ethnic pay gap as well: Asian Americans reported the highest average earnings in STEM occupations, while non-Hispanic whites also had above average earnings; black and Hispanic professionals earned below average wages in 2012.

Some ethnic communities, particularly immigrants of Chinese heritage are being blamed by some observers as being responsible for high urban real estate prices in Vancouver.

This makes the Chinese community the eighth largest in Canada in terms of ethnic...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP)-- Serbia won't help persuade Bosnian Serbs to cancel a disputed referendum that has challenged the international community in Bosnia and fueled ethnic tensions more than two decades after the 1992 - 95 war, the Balkan country's leaders...

Others say not having content reviewers who reflect the racial and ethnic make - up of the communities they serve leads to mistakes in enforcement.

Minors are selling their bodies because of a crisis that represents a breakdown in community between civilians and the government, between secular and religious fighters, between ethnic groups.

ICTY prosecutor Richard Goldstone argued that the international community's failure to prosecute Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, and Somalia's Mohammed Aidid encouraged Serbs to undertake ethnic cleansing in the early 1990s.

The question of allegiance is a pressing one for the Jesse Jacksons of the black church who must decide who they ultimately represent: the black community, a coalition of ethnic groups, the Democratic Party or a sense of moral right in the universe.

For Williams the brief exchange was ans example of how diverse the Muslim community in the U.S. is drawing people from all different ethnic backgrounds.

Rah adds: «Contrary to popular opinion, the church is not dying in America; its is alive and well, but it is alive and well among the immigrant and ethnic minority communities and not among the majority white churches in the United States.»

«In the competitive world of American ethnic communities, there are two paths to success: upward mobility defined according to wealth, education, and political power, and downward mobility measured by degrees of victimhood.»

I became aware of similar signs being displayed prominently in black communities and Asian communities and other ethnic communities I encountered.

And even if there are valid arguments in support of churches with a predominant ethnic group, still the wider Christian community often falters when it comes to demonstrating unity in Christ.

We also have a bad habit of ignoring the continued growth of Christianity among immigrant and ethnic minority communities in the U.S.. What's something you wish more people knew about Asian American Christians?

Yet each of these ethnic communities will deal with the 2010 vote in different ways.

Because of the vast immigration and refugee movements of this century, this international web of contacts is important in almost every ethnic community.

The hi - tech multimedia, dictated by the corporate powers and agencies of the global market, subjugate cultural subjecthood, cultural values, style of life, perceptions of beauty, and religious mystery in life, as well as ethnic, national identities of persons and community to the market wasteland of cultural life.

In its second and third generations, the ethnic community is integrated into the larger multicultural scene, and another important strategy comes to the fore.

In any case, inroads into the ethnic communities are often cut by someone (not necessarily the pastor) who is able to shift back and forth at different cultural and linguistic levels.

Even if we consider the three major religious groups as ethnic traditions rather than religious in the narrow sense, their brightest and most creative intellectuals and artists have been absorbed into the general American intellectual and artistic community so as to deprive the communal groups of their natural cultural leaders.

The British who colonized India had accepted the European concept of nationhood as constituted by unity in blood and language, «ethnic purity and a single language»; therefore, they said, that «India is not and can never be a nation... India is a collection of religious communities... But the unfortunate tragic element was that this British interpretation of Indian history was also accepted by many of our national leaders... So British interpretation plus the shortsightedness of our own leaders, not excluding the Mahatma, together resulted in this dreadful phenomenon of communalism».

While the principal function of the immigrant churches was to preserve the ethnic and cultural identity of the immigrants, the main purpose of the mission churches, resulting from agreements negotiated by and with churches in the United States, was not to serve communities of U.S. citizens in the region, but to plant churches among the local inhabitants.

It provided an ideological framework within which the many religious communities of India as well as the plurality of linguistic caste and ethnic cultures (in the formation of which one or other religions had played a dominant role) could participate together with the adherents of secular ideologies like Liberalism and Socialism (which emerged in India in the framework of the impact of modern humanism of the West mediated through western power and English education).

In religions and denominations where there is usually only one church to go to the make up is probably more linked to the ethnic make up of the surrounding community.

Christians can not claim to be working for justice in our communities if we contribute to segregation and the racial or ethnic division of those communities.

Many persons who are not likely to join groups in churches and schools may do so if they're made available in family counseling agencies» mental health services, youth organizations, business and industry, fraternal groups, self - help groups (such as A.A., P.W.P., Alanon, etc.), and in the many organizations devoted to special needs of the handicapped, ex-prisoners, ex-patients, unwed parents, minority groups of all kinds, senior citizens, community action groups, ethnic organizations.

Thus, affirming his attachment to what he called «Old World values» to an audience at an ethnic festival in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he proclaimed, «Dedication to work, to family, to community, to neighborhood: Those are the values I believe in.»

Even then the Russian Empire was a demographic mixing bowl, with communities of ethnic Poles or Germans in the remotest provinces.

Feministas hispanas have been consistently marginalized in the white, Anglo feminist community because of our critique of its ethnic and racial prejudice and lack of class analysis.

Honestly, their are enough whites that can live well and happy in a mixed community and can be loving neighbors with families of different ethnic and racial backgrounds.

That is, they should be given a monopoly to use the city streets to wire the homes of a community, but in return should be required to carry all kinds of services — news (Cable News Network), information (The Weather Channel, Financial News Network), entertainment (Home Box Office, Cinemax), sports (ESPN), children programming (Disney), ethnic (Spanish Information Network, Black Entertainment Television), and religion (VISION TV in Canada, VISN in the U.S.).

A secular political culture couldn't be created overnight, and in the meantime citizens with political demands could only organize themselves in overtly religious, linguistic, and ethnic communities.

Political entrepreneurs are beginning to exploit the rise of ethnic consciousness in the U.S. Political ethnicity and conflict are certain to grow when government validates or legitimates racial, religious or nationality quotas, proportional representation, community control, communalism or sectionalism.

The last group is that of the ethnic - power politicizers, who claim not only that their group is beautiful, but also that the preservation, maintenance, enhancement and survival of their group depend upon the achievement of political power, whether it be through benign quotas, proportional representation, community control, caucuses — or in a few cases, outright secession, rebellion or the use of violence.

The director of training and program development at TransFORM Network, she is a master curator, as skilled as anyone I've ever met at making connections, elevating important voices, and navigating relationships in communities of political, theological, and ethnic diversity.

I was once in a «Chinese community at noon time, I didn't think anything about it, I stopped and went into a small ethnic restaurant, there was very noticeable conversations going on — I could hear it, but the moment I stepped in and the people saw me all conversations stopped.

Further, this community was open to all, so that it did not have the exclusivity of ethnic and social communities in the world.

The inability to differentiate between ideology and state underlies Israelis» denial that there was any ethnic cleansing at the birth of Israel and resistance to a renewed integration of the Jewish and Palestinian communities in Eretz Israel / Palestine (a term Benvenisti uses intentionally throughout his book).

The company says it began the first pita bread bakery in Chicago catering to the local Middle Eastern ethnic community.

In practice, she supports local ethnic communities, particularly Afro - Colombian peoples, with programs to help them to revive and preserve their ancestral knowledge and ingredients (many of which have become forgotten or disused), nurturing sustainable agricultural entrepreneurship, and helping them find routes to market.