Sentences with phrase «from small minority»

These MPPs (usually NDP and Liberal) know where the majority of their votes emanate from, and it is not from the small minority of business people / landlords.

Three Treasurers in a row have refused to do that, including the incumbent who got elected largely on the basis that he was the only candidate opposed to ABS (most benchers are opposed, but, strangely, three of the four candidates were from the small minority who favour ABS; it is too bad that more candidates from the sensibly anti-ABS majority did not run for Treasurer).

1) Indeed government policy should not be based on political pressure from a small minority; but that includes the minority of activists who have hijacked the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)[1] to the extent that the scientific content behind its Assessment Reports has been distorted by the small number of green activists controlling the Summaries.

When you stop to think about that, it's truly beautiful to know that something such as multicultural relationships has grown from a small minority and become common and socially recognized.

He said: «It is clear that the universities that recruit the vast majority of students from a small minority of society are missing out on a huge amount of talent.

Can the school engage in affirmative action with regard to purchasing from small minority businesses?

The majority of the guests of our federal prisons come from the small minority (which is higher outside the cities, in rural Canada and among First Nations) who live in poverty.

To be clear, such comments come from a small minority, none of whom are reflective of our institution.

Significantly, all these Protestant organizations for carrying the Gospel to other lands arose from small minorities while Europe was racked by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.

[5] Higher thresholds come with the added risk of stonewalling or ransom demands from a smaller minority of hashing power.

Not exact matches

The U.S. Small Business Administration estimates that the number of minority - owned businesses more than doubled from 1987 to 1997, from a quarter million to a half million businesses, and that the revenues they collectively generated grew more than fourfold.

On Monday, JPMorgan Chase announced $ 2.2 million to support underserved and minority - owned businesses throughout the U.S. as part of the firm's three - year commitment from its Small Business Forward initiative.

Hay spotted opportunity: As a woman, a minority (her mother is from Vietnam), and a service - disabled veteran (her hearing was damaged while in the Navy), she knew she'd have an edge in the contracting process — and that the government has to expedite pay to small businesses.

It sounds awfully steep, but that's the point — to discourage a small minority of well - to - do CCPC owners from deferring a whole lot of tax that way.

Only a small minority of users — university students, scientists and select government officials — have access to Kwangmyong, a domestic intranet «that offers email and websites but is totally shut off from the rest of the world,» according to a Slate article.

Indeed, from 1997 to 2007, the number of minority - owned small businesses increased by more than 25 percent, according to data from the Brookings Institute.

To sum up, the six general elections considered here ended with minority governments, and those minorities all enjoyed a relatively small advantage in the number of seats — ranging from two to 22 — over the official Opposition.

Meet with exhibitors from Federal, State and local governments, and Federal Government large business prime contractors who are looking for small, diverse suppliers, including minority, 8 (a), SDB, HUBZone participants, service - disabled veteran - owned, veteran - owned, and women - owned businesses.

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Establish a robust local vendor contracting program that ensures particularly local small minority - and women - owned businesses are able to benefit from contracting opportunities at HQ2.

There, it is true that the arbitrage gains arising from free trade between economic zones of vastly different living standards without trade balance equilibrium and being captured by a small minority are correctly viewed as un-earned gains and giving rise to social tensions which could easily degenerate into political tensions.

The purpose of this website is to consider a better way of investing — from basic overall strategy to looking at the minority of (mostly) small, independent money managers who appear to actually give a damn about their clients.

My point of the post is that people don't know about religion because it has been taken away from us by small minority groups.

Yes, in the United States, self confessed atheists are a small minority — from memory, Pew Research estimates are less then 5 %.

I think this is due to the fact that atheists are a small minority in the US and they are responding to the marginalization of their beliefs in what is supposed to be a country that supports freedom of (and therefore from) religious expression by lashing out.

The more obvious answer is, of course, that life in Eastern Mediterranean occupied territory, in a simple, leisurely, prescientific age, among a small minority having no political power, was very different from the conditions of today.

My personal opinion at this time is that nothing much will come from THIS movement except a fair amount of new awareness (who besides a small minority thought or more importantly discussed their thoughts about the 99 % before all this?..)

This writer would suggest that the reason legislators ban traps stems from their awareness that trappers comprise such a small minority that such action will carry no negative political consequences.

In the century 1850 - 1950, membership moved from a rather small minority to a substantial majority.

A small conservative minority of the Free Church, mostly in the Highlands and known humorously as the Wee Frees, did not go into the United Free Church but kept vigorously aloof from it.

Except in a few small islands in the Pacific, until 1914 the Christian communities which arose from missions from the West were small minorities, Christian enclaves in overwhelming non-Christian populations, dependent on continued infusions from Europe and America and regarded by the non-Christian neighbors as aliens, the religious phase of Western imperialism and colonialism.

Cut off for several months from his lecture course, which was now being given by someone else, he was already in less of a central position, an ex-member of a deputation that had failed in its object, and now in a small minority on a matter of policy.

«There's been self radicalization going on within the Muslim community, within a very small minority, but it's there and that's where the threat is coming from at this time.»

Qatari citizens have benefited enormously from the economic boom, but they are a small minority in their own country, roughly 20 percent.

The media seem to be averting their gaze from the society - wide, contemporary problem in favour of the small minority of historic Catholic cases.

The real content of the programme of these gentlemen (and some ladies) is undeniable because at its base it guarantees maximum profit for capital, at the price of stagnation and growing inequality between the small minorities benefiting from the system and all the working classes, and between the nations of the triad and all the rest.

As a result of our supplier diversity program, in fiscal year 2014, we purchased 21 percent of our resources from diverse businesses (small businesses, women - owned businesses, minority - owned businesses and veteran - owned businesses).

There is more than just a small minority of Arsenal fans who think that the Germany international Mesut Ozil is nothing more than a luxury that the Gunners can not really afford to have, apart from when he blows away the doubters with a match winning performance like we saw against Tottenham last weekend.

Indeed, only a small minority of footballers playing in the five major European competitions have never taken part in other leagues from the beginning of their adult career up until their 23rd birthday.

This type of homeschooling may seem like a small minority of the population, a Duggar - ish aberration from the norm.

At the same time, the small minority who aren't interested are not challenged, and are simply allowed to drift away from their obligations.

The specialist Dad Cards for Black and Minority Ethnic Fathers are small, credit card - sized, fold - out cards which provide detailed information for expectant fathers from particular ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

In some circumstances, such as when one party is totally dominant, it makes sense to tally the small number of voters from the minority party first, because it's quick.

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

In addition, he served as the Economic Development and Small Business Liaison to the New York State Senate Minority leader from 2000 - 2003.

(3) aside from a small handful of anecdotal edge cases, there's no evidence that minorities have trouble obtaining required IDs compared to anyone else (that MAY have been true in 1960s, but absolutely false in 2018).

The small districts were designed to answer concerns from many voters, including minority residents of Syracuse, that their voices would not be heard in a countywide government.

The JBRC, which was supposed to help minority - owned small businesses, was the recipient of a $ 275,000 grant from Smith in 2010.

Teachout says she's focused on listening to NY - 19 voters and accepting small - dollar donations, even as she will benefit from a fundraiser headlined by House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, opening herself up to criticism from the NRCC due to Hoyer's fondness for PAC cash.

Here's where it gets weird: between Bachmann and Miller on the list of top small - dollar fundraisers is House Minority Leader John Boehner, who raised $ 1.4 million — nearly a third of his total haul so far this cycle — from small donors.