Sentences with phrase «ethnic population in»

Considering residents of Hispanic descent are the fastest - growing ethnic population in our state it's a great step forward in protecting the health, safety and well - being of Pennsylvania's children,» said Angela Liddle, President and CEO of PFSA.

Cheney will be providing a presentation about marketing to the Hispanic population, which is the fastest growing ethnic population in the country.

Family Violence in a Cultural Perspective: Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse Malley - Morrison & Hines (2003) View Abstract Focuses on family violence from four major ethnic populations in the United States: Native American Indian, African - American, Hispanic / Latino, and Asian American.

Although Hispanic Americans are one of the fastest growing ethnic populations in the United States, use and psychometric testing of Spanish versions of two instruments commonly used to measure quality of the couple's relationship and family functioning, the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) and the FACES II, have not been reported.

Not exact matches

Putin spoke about the «rehabilitation of ethnic Tartars,» a minority Muslim that makes up about 12 % Crimea today after Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's forcible deported of the entire population in 1944.

This latter concern is most deeply felt in Kazakhstan, a country with a large Russian border, significant ethnic Russian population, and growing fears of Russian meddling.

According to the latest census, the Asian population in the United States grew by 43.3 % between 2000 and 2010, the largest percentage increase of any ethnic or racial group.

According to the UN, roughly half of the Rohingya population have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh in the past year, most of them since the recent violence which has resulted in the displacement of 30,000 ethnic Rakhine Buddhists as well as Hindus.

Nor do I find one in Pope John Paul II's strong words about the obligation of humanitarian intervention — that such humanitarian intervention may be «necessary where the survival of populations and entire ethnic groups is seriously compromised.»

The situation is complicated by the arrival of other ethnic groups, which have displaced the older Anglo - Saxon population in numbers but not necessarily in influence.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Assyrian Christians are one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Middle East, but in recent years, the rise of ISIS and other militant groups have led to a steady population decrease.

Jews have been elected to Congress and appointed to high positions in government in numbers far exceeding their percentage of the population; Jews are arguably America's most affluent ethnic group; Jews have served as commissioners of Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League, as well as presidents of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia; and, as the wedding notices in the Sunday New York Times indicate, Jews have not been reluctant to marry Gentiles, or vice versa.

To find evidence that the evangelism offices of the denominations are trying to undo that captivity and deal seriously with the cities and the ethnic minority populations that live in them is not easy.

According to the UN, roughly half of the Rohingya population have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh in the past year, most of them in the last three weeks and the violence has resulted in the displacement of 30,000 ethnic Rakhine Buddhists as well as Hindus.

Major responsibility for the change in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan, Levine and Harmon claim, rests largely on the political, banking, and real estate establishment of Boston that decided to channel Boston's growing black population into Jewish neighborhoods rather than to scatter them in Irish, Italian, and other ethnic enclaves.

If we really stop and look at the dramatic changes going on all over the world and in the US (demographics, ethnic population shifts, a new era in how people under 50 look at the world, etc.) it points to a need to focus more than ever on the centrality of Christ Jesus.

Economic expansion in this core was associated with two other dominant trends: growth in population (the so - called demographic transition, which both facilitated, and was facilitated by, industrialization) and the geographic inclusion of previously isolated, local, and ethnic sectors of the population into the commercial and industrial labor force.

Not only do such actions represent a radical departure from past times in America, when government refused to legitimate ethnic - group rights and claims, but they also encourage a polarization rather than unification of our diverse population — a trend that can result only in the eventual creation of de jure ethnic and racial geographic enclaves and political parties, with the appointment and election of individuals mandated along racial, religious and ethnic lines.

In major U.S. cities with ethnic populations, specialty markets are now starting to stock some packaged varieties of ras el hanout, however the freshness of such items should — whenever possible — be tested.

targeting specific population groups — each part of the borough has its own particular ethnic mix and this needs to be reflected in services

Families belonging to small communities and ethnic groups in particular feel safer and stronger as their population increases.

But auditors — and Children's Centre staff themselves — felt they needed to do more to identify and provide outreach services to families with high levels of need, and the NAO found that «less progress was being made in improving services for fathers, parents of children with disabilities, and for ethnic minorities in areas with smaller minority populations».

The NAO also found that Centres were making services more relevant to the needs of lone parents, teenage parents and ethnic minority parents in areas with large minority populations.

Limitations: Conclusions from the study are limited in their application to the population of expectant fathers by the low response rate and the low numbers of low - income, ethnic - background, and indigenous fathers in the sample.

The sample was stratified by country and electoral ward type to over-represent families in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and wards with a high proportion of disadvantaged and ethnic minority families.19 Electoral wards were defined as ethnic minority (at least 30 % of population «Black» or «Asian», 1991 census), with the remainder defined as disadvantaged (upper quartile Child Poverty Index20) or advantaged (not in upper quartile Child Poverty Index).

In the US, I think that about 25 % of the population consists of racial minorities and if you include ethnic minorities you get something closer to 50 %.

Differences in the prevalence of supine positioning and other sleep - environment conditions among racial and ethnic populations might contribute to these disparities.17 The prevalence of supine positioning in 2010 among white infants was 75 %, compared with 53 % among black infants (Fig 5).

Or, it could be that some causes of sudden infant death are at least partly genetic, and the genes vary in prevalence among ethnic populations, but that's less plausible at the moment, I think.

Islamists stormed the NTC headquarters in Benghazi, over 100 militia brigades from Misrata engaged in retributive killings of Gaddafi supporters, and ethnic tensions between Arab Islamists and minority Berber and Tebou populations led to violent clashes.

As Lucinda Platt and others have shown, Britishness is especially common among migrants and minority ethnic populations — and in particular those from South Asian and / or Muslim groups — who are far more likely to identify as British than their white British neighbours are.

There have been ethnic clashes with the Roma population recently in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

Mike Scala is running for Congress in NY - 6, and he wants the new district lines drawn to be reflective of ethnic populations.

According to the analysis of Census data by the the advocacy and housing organization, Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE), the Asian population in New York City is growing rapidly and dispersing beyond historical ethnic enclaves.

Latinos make up the largest ethnic group in the district at 46 %, with non-Hispanic Blacks comprising approximately 37 percent of the population.

The recent move to modernise in every area possible has alienated not just much of the party faithful but also much of our ethnic population.

For example, in his 2011 meta - analytic studies, Hickman recounts that the primordial political cleavage in Kenya maps membership in three ethnic blocs — «Kikuyu / Embu / Mem, Kalenjin / Maasai / Turkana / Samburu, and Luo»; «none of which comprises a majority of the national population».

One of the core political theories of this type is «nationalism» in which one or more populations, often with an ethnic or religious foundation, within a state develop a sense of community and identity that corresponds to citizenship, more or less, rather than arbitrary politically drawn boundaries.

If ethnic minorities had voted for Cameron at the same rate as the white British population in 2010, the Tories would have won 500,000 more votes, 24 more seats from Labour, and a parliamentary majority.

Racial / ethnic minorities may jockey for «representation» if the census reveals significant increases in those populations.

Speaker Mark - Viverito called the meeting to announce her intention to keep the City Council in closer contact with the ethnic journalists, whose audiences account for a large portion of the city's population.

Around a third of these seats have more under - 35s than over-55s, and plenty have large ethnic minority populations, especially in London.

In October, Home Secretary Theresa May was forced to scrap sending vans with signs telling illegal immigrants to go home to areas with large ethnic populations.

The son of an immigrant fieldworker who went on to become the youngest mayor of Santa Maria, Maldonado has long been considered the Republicans» best chance to reach out to the state's growing Latino population, which is projected to become the state's largest «race or ethnic group» in March.

WHEREAS, the State of New York is best positioned to: (1) understand the ramifications of operating an Exchange within New York's commercial insurance market; (2) consider the unique regional and economic needs of the State's individual and small business health insurance markets; (3) account for the diversity of its population, with its ethnic, cultural and language differences; and (4) decide what benefits will be provided to enrollees in the Exchange, which health plans can participate in the Exchange, what rules should apply to the marketing of products by health plans, and how to operate the Small Business Health Option Program («SHOP») for small businesses;

«The reasons other people that made the decisions, they took a look at the different ethnic groups that they thought for their petty political ambitions in the long run Rangel wouldn't be around and that they wanted to be on the side they thought the population would be going in,» he added.

The field study is to consider the population dynamics in the respective regions, the geographical or physical features of the areas, their economic viability, as well as ethnic and community interests.

Since then the growing ethnic minority population and boundary changes in 2010 which removed the Conservative voting area of Pinner have moved it further into the Labour column, to the point where it can be held even in what was a very bad election for the party.

He thinks there were as many as five separate waves and believes there may have been distinct ethnic groups within the population living in Beringia at the time the Americas were first settled, which could confuse the picture.