Sentences with phrase «ethnic groups on»

As displayed in Table II, there were no significant differences between ethnic groups on age, sex, time since diagnosis, and insulin pump usage, p >.05.

And, he says, it would be wrong to criticize other ethnic groups on the assumption that they don't support their children to the same degree that Asian American parents do.

Controlling for this allowed us to study whether the narrowing of the gaps among racial and ethnic groups on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) was comparable to changes on the highly regarded NAEP exams.

Not exact matches

Many of the government's largest sting operations come from busting up cross-state Ponzi schemes, «affinity» investment scams (which prey on the elderly or on particular ethnic or religious groups), and penny - stock boiler rooms, like the infamous Stratton Oakmont and Sterling Foster.

The MP for Richmond Park hasn't been able to win over the black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) vote either, and this is a problem given that this social group is on the rise in the capital.

Our pipeline of managing partners continues to diversify, and we are on target in the next ten years to have a partners group that mirrors the racial and ethnic demographic makeup of our county on the 2020 census and affirm our aim to be a truly anti-racist organization.

Click on the links below to download the executive report, as well as the summary tables, which contain all of the statistics at the national, state, metropolitan, industry and ethnic group level.

Diverse data: In a briefing with reporters, NIH officials said they are focusing on gathering health and genetic data from diverse and historically underrepresented groups — including ethnic and sexual minorities, as well as people with disabilities, with less than a high school education, and with income below the poverty level.

«If we're going to be serious - as the province says we should [be]- about reaching out to under - represented groups like indigenous people, the disabled community, socioeconomic challenged areas and ethnic populations, the current resources we have, and the government has, on the table are just not going to be adequate to do that.»

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday issued a statement saying the U.S. government «in no way condones such acts of disrespect against the religion of Islam, and is deeply concerned about deliberate attempts to offend members of religious or ethnic groups.»

You wouldn't build a similar report asking about the proclivities of a racial or ethnic group based on the actions of one group member.

«We have many different chapels to many different ethnic groups, so depending on the background of the individual group, they tend to like what relates most personally to them,» MacLean says.

I think it is really wonderful that the conservatives of this country keep liberalizing their opinions on what other ethnic groups are acceptable.

Forget it, Jews (or any other endangered ethnic group)- you'd be on your own.

:: Asian, black and other ethnic groups were disproportionately likely to be on a low income, with almost half of households in bottom 40 % nationally before housing costs were taken into account.

The fact is that during the last six thousand years, in the Mediterranean area, a neo-humanity has been germinating and is now at this moment completing its absorption into itself of the remaining vestiges of the neolithic mosaic of ethnic groupings, so as to form a new layer, of greater density than all the others, on the noosphere.

Fromm sees clearly that for many people Christianity is a thin veneer over the idolatrous worship of power, success, and the authority of the marketplace; or it is a cover masking their idolatrous fixation on their clan, religious or ethnic group, or nation - state.

The clash between the mainly Muslim Fulani ethnic militants - groups of semi-nomadic herdsmen and Christian farmers happened on New Year's Day.

On the one hand our ties to tradition, whatever religious or ethnic group we come from, have been enormously eroded in the last century by the advance of modernization.

At least six people have died in violence linked to the latest vote, including a man who was shot and killed in the Nairobi slum of Kawangware as security forces moved to quell fighting between gangs from different ethnic groups late on Friday, according to police.

What at a distance seemed to be a quasi-public edifice flying only the all - inclusive flag of American nationality turned out, on closer inspection, to be the clubhouse of a particular ethnic group — the white Anglo - Saxon Protestants, its operation shot through with the premises and expectations of its parental ethnicity.8

The highly critical stance of Anglo - American intellectuals to much in the outlook of their own ethnic group has had the negative result of isolating them and reducing their influence on their own group.

In the 20th century major ethnic groups and even racial groups began to be represented on the national political stage and the election of the first Catholic president in 1960 marked the crossing of an important symbolic barrier.

It seems incongruous that the leader of a tiny ethnic group that lectures Rome on the merits of priestly marriage would draft the final statement of a Vatican Synod on the Middle East.

For Esther, this decision to stand up on the behalf of her ethnic group could have cost her her life before the request even left her lips.

In the future, conservatives should try to appeal to both groups by focusing on the economic priorities of those groups rather than ethnic gamesmanship.In the 2012 campaign, Romney's combination of economic priorities and immigration messaging proved especially toxic.

The author reviews two books on the subject discussing the cultural patterns and problems of first and second generation Koreans, how they are different from other ethnic groups and the problems of assimilation into American culture.

These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.

On the one hand, the boundary lines which separate ethnic and national groups (which were mostly geographical in origin) are now becoming blurred, indistinct and sometimes irrelevant.

As the Faith Church committee sought to develop a pathway into the future, it worked with census data on ethnic diversity, household changes, and patterns of age groups in the district.

Pope Francis has said Burma's future depends on respecting the rights of each ethnic group, an indirect show of support for Rohingya Muslims, but disappointed human rights activists by failing to use the word «Rohingya».

«The future of Burma must be peace, a peace based on respect for the dignity and rights of each member of society, respect for each ethnic group and its identity, respect for the rule of law, and respect for a democratic order that enables each individual and every group - none excluded - to offer its legitimate contribution to the common good,» he said.

We see the roots of wrong (Genesis 3:16 - 19) replay on the news each day — tensions between men and women; parents and children; brother and brother; differing religious, racial, ethnic and socio - economic groups.

A University of Washington task force on ethnicity declined to confer ethnic group status on Jews or on Italian and Irish - Americans, and it excluded anti-Semitism from a required course on racism in America because «anti-Semitism is not institutionalized in this country.»

♦ A colleague at Harvard passes on this broadsheet issued by the «Coalition for Civil Rights,» a group made up of «spokespersons» for myriad ethnic and racial minorities, plus gays, lesbians, and assorted lifestyle liberationisms.

Jimmy C. Newman has a fine updated countrified take on the Cajun sound; another contemporary group is L'Angelus, often too watered - down or boringly «Celtic» for my tastes, but able to rip - it when paired with old - time musicians, and potentially interesting to First Things readers by their being proudly Catholic and in a Christian way, more than in an ethnic pride way.

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Growth groups can also be used to build bridges of communication and empathy across the barriers that divide mankind — the ethnic, racial, national, and political differences that isolate us from our fellow human beings, During several workshops on counseling in India, my wife and I led growth groups for participants.

What is reasonable to suppose is that the separate loyalties citizens feel — to religion certainly but also to class, ethnic group, profession, party, or whatever — will be regulated on behalf of the common good.

So America is going to focus on the specific religion, ethnic group and background that made us aware of Islam and brought the word «Muslim» to the American Lexicon.

Second, reconciliation focuses on racial reconciliation, bringing together people from different ethnic groups in relationships that reflect the vision of Revelation 7:9, a great multitude of people from every tribe, nation and tongue, united in worship of Christ.

Many members of the ethnic group known as the «Hutus,» spurred on by the government, massacred approximately 800,000 «Tutsis» in less than a year.

In many cases, Kontos found that the product line took on a different name with each ethnic group.

One hates to rely on stereotypes about nationalities and ethnic groups but the opinions that I heard expressed on the matter fell rather neatly along the lines of the stereotypes of the «emotionally stunted and repressed Brits» and the «fiery and passionate Latin Americans.»

In general, we'd ask you to be civil towards other readers and refrain from obscene language and any comments on religion, ethnic groups or politics.

The FA is investigating the incident and has contacted Balotelli after he posted an image on Instagram of the video game character Super Mario which contained stereotypes about a number of different ethnic groups.

Through interviews with a diverse group of mothers from a wide variety of economic and ethnic backgrounds, we are able to see the actual impact of the education of parenting styles on their everyday lives.

We adjusted for maternal age, ethnic group, understanding of English, marital or partner status, body mass index in pregnancy, index of multiple deprivation score, parity and gestational age at birth (see appendix 4 on bmj.com for categorisation).

Today 80 percent of ethnic groups in Asia, South America and Africa still practice this and give birth either sitting, suspend, on the knees or crouching.

* And in the largest and possible most systematic study to date, conducted on five different ethnic groups from both Chicago and New York involving over 1,400 subjects Mosenkis (2000) found far more positive adult outcomes for individuals who coslept as a child, among almost all ethnic groups i.e. African Americans and Puerto Ricans in New York, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Mexicans in Chicago than there were negative findings.