Sentences with phrase «known as the minority»

The next - largest party is known as the minority party.

During the formative years of 1985 - 90, the group received official committee status and became known as the Minorities Affairs Committee (MAC) of the ASCB.

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That was never a real concern, as long as immigrants assimilate, and it no longer lies in the mouths of Europeans, struggling with a minority of indigestible and militant Muslims who occupy vast no - go areas across Europe, to comment on the relatively manageable sociological problems of America.

Islamic State's offshoot in Afghanistan, known as the Sunni jihadist group's so - called Khorasan Province, is suspected of carrying out several attacks on minority Shi'ite Muslim targets.

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.

A marine officer candidate's first Quantico experience — unless he or she is among that minority who've attended the Naval Academy — is the unique hell known as the Officer Candidate School (OCS).

The relative lack of minority employees at Twitter was particularly galling, say Luckie and Miley, because the platform had become such an important tool for the global black community, through a vibrant and dedicated subset of users known as Black Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMatter.

But without specific numbers as to what percentage of his investment went to women and / or minority - led startups (as opposed to funds), we have no way of knowing how effective these efforts are.

Gawker, it turns out, plans to sell a minority stake to Columbus Nova, pending approval from Gawker's shareholders, to finance the company's ongoing legal fight with Terry Bollea, also known as Hulk Hogan.

You finally arrive at the bottom, where you find a figure known as net income applicable to common shares, which is the profit the stockholders are entitled to enjoy after backing out things like costs, interest expense, taxes, minority stakes, etc..

The regulator, known as CVM, said they had used stock options to boost their holdings in AmBev's voting shares before selling it to Belgium's Interbrew in 2004, to the detriment of minority investors.

Chinalco, as the state - owned aluminum producer is known, decided to withdraw after rejecting a proposal by the Chinese government that it be a minority partner in a combined bid led by Minmetals, according to the people.

As Ethereum's core developers and the majority of its community went ahead with the hard fork, the minority that stayed behind and didn't upgrade their software continued to mine what is now known as Ethereum Classic (ETCAs Ethereum's core developers and the majority of its community went ahead with the hard fork, the minority that stayed behind and didn't upgrade their software continued to mine what is now known as Ethereum Classic (ETCas Ethereum Classic (ETC).

The former prime minister of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani — widely known as HBJ — has bought the mortgage on the property, according to Bloomberg, which also revealed that he was the silent lender behind the minority purchase of the hotel by Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation.

13) The May 28, 2010 attack on a Islamic religious minority in Pakistan, which have left 98 dead, 14) Lockerbie is known internationally as the site where, on 21 December 1988, the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed as a result of a terrorist bomb.

«As Governor Brownback knows, advancing religious freedom will not only reduce the spiking persecution that is afflicting millions of human beings and religious minorities around the world.

Their books may not be known to most of the general public interested in questions related to Jesus, the Gospels, or the early Christian church, but they do occupy a noteworthy niche as a (very) small but (often) loud minority voice.

We all know of instances in which racial minorities, women, and colonized countries — as soon as they have gotten into a position of independence and power — have become more oppressive than those who had oppressed them.

What would this look like for this minority view to also become known, by religious and secular people alike, as the most life - giving view?

This position is known as «eliminative materialism» and while it is a minority position today, it is the only logical conclusion of a materialist understanding of the mind and consciousness.

In the world as a whole those who have this understanding are no doubt a minority.

There is a minority of Christian circles that practice «spiritual snobbery» and look down on people who are not «in the know» as they consider people should be.

However, as others champion his victory, India's Christian minority — the majority of whom are Dalits themselves — know that a Hindu nationalist politician from the Dalit caste is still a Hindu nationalist politician.

Mathematicians have calculated that within 100 years religion as we know it here in the states will only be practiced by a very small minority.

The oppressed groups in our society — women, racial minorities, the poor — know well that current language is enslaving and insensitive to them as persons.

«As a female and minority professor, I know that my views have been solicited by the administration in its quest for greater diversity,» she stated.

In all honesty, the «religious people» that don't legislate against things based solely on their religious convictions and thereby hurt the rights of individuals, and who don't condemn science and medicine and societal progression and other religions and other denominations and people who are not religious, and who don't claim to know that something is true beyond all other truths, are probably a very slim minority, and I'd have to argue that they aren't really religious, they are just doing whatever makes them feel good, which could be accomplished through secular means as well.

Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, also known as Ahok, is a double minority as an ethnic Chinese Indonesian and a Christian.

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.

The third decision concerned a 1992 statewide referendum in which the voters in Colorado adopted an amendment, known as Amendment 2, to their constitution prohibiting laws that make homosexual orientation, conduct, and relationships the bases of special entitlements to minority status, quota preferences, and claims to discrimination.

Known in the community as the «Hip Hop Doc,» Williams is a highly regarded NIH researcher and expert in community - based health education interventions targeting economically disadvantaged minority communities.

Shaq's touching down in California's capital city as a minority owner is good for a variety of reasons, but everyone knows why he's there: to mentor and refine Boogie.

The standards were minimal, yet some educators and athletic officials felt that Proposition 48 — as it's still generally known — discriminated against underprivileged students, particularly minorities.

You are just one of those who couldn't wait to see his name posted.I bet your Mummy is so proud of you.I thought Pires would never be beaten for First place as the Village Idiot But CONGRATULATIONS.You Win.Even Pires has never managed to post something so completely one dimensionally incorrect as you.And you know what?You come across as STUPID enough to actually believe what you are saying.Honestly pal I can assure you that posts like this will only have everyone LAUGH AT YOU.Even those minority who still worship Wenger have NEVER blamed the Supporters for our rapid demise.

No one knows whether the «Tiger effect» will spawn a generation of minority golfers, but the path blazed by the Williams sisters in American tennis — a sport once perceived as being whiter than a Duluth winter — is already heavily trodden.

This is different from the current low - paid system (known as Shared Parental Leave — SPL), which requires mothers to transfer some of their leave to their partner - and for which only a minority of parents qualify.

I'm probably in a minority of one, as I think the cuts to the UK Film Council were no bad thing.

As May knows, both the USA and UK have recently experienced disturbing spikes in hate crime and hostile sentiments towards migrants and minorities are a cause for concern on both sides of the Atlantic.

I intend to change the Republican Party as we have known it with the voluntary or forced resignation of previously identified RINO County Chairs like Vinny Reda, in Rockland County, as well as Dean Skelos as Majority Leader of the Senate and Brian Kolb as the Minority Leader of the Assembly.

The Hastert Rule, also known as the «majority of the majority» rule, is an informal governing principle used in the United States by Republican [1][2][3] Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to maintain their speakerships [4] and limit the power of the minority party to bring bills up for a vote on the floor of the House.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's protest was designed to draw attention to the plight of the young immigrants facing deportation known as Dreamers.

Known for a time in Brooklyn as «the Mwalimu» («great teacher» in Swahili), Vann was the moving force behind a landmark 1982 Federal case that led to the expansion of minority representation in New York at the state and federal levels.

As Assembly Minority Leader, John earned a reputation as someone who understood public policy inside and out, and someone who knew how to find real solutions to the problems facing New YorAs Assembly Minority Leader, John earned a reputation as someone who understood public policy inside and out, and someone who knew how to find real solutions to the problems facing New Yoras someone who understood public policy inside and out, and someone who knew how to find real solutions to the problems facing New York.

Yet minority leaders are left out of the closed door budget meetings with the governor, known around the Capitol as «three men in a room.»

The minority in Parliament has noted with grave concern the sale of contaminated fuel product to the tune of five million litres to a company known as Movenpiina by the MD of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Limited under very dubious and bizarre circumstances in another clear example of escalating corruption in the Akufo - Addo / Bawumia Government.

«I believe that Governor Cuomo is not only working against the Democratic Party as the leader — who as the leader should be protecting and defending the party and its candidates — but I also believe that he is working against racial equality and minority opportunities by preventing Black and Hispanics from gaining positions of leadership in New York State,» Diaz wrote in his «What You Should Know» email at the time.

The alternative would be to end the coalition and run as a minority administration, but press the Lib Dems to vote on individual measures, a system known as confidence and supply.

John Major was consistently opposed by Eurosceptics in his party (known as the Maastricht Rebels — a small minority of MPs before 1997, but enjoying much wider support among party activists).

He knows his district intimately, has experience in the Greene County Legislature as the Minority Leader and he's worked with first responders in every community as a flight paramedic.

Documents show he was paid $ 14,500 as the Senate's minority whip last year, a post he no longer holds.