Sentences with phrase «labeled as minority»

Often referred to as the «behavior detection» program, this type of screening is a recipe for racial profiling, again targeting those labeled as minority.

While the minority Republicans had a right to have a blog the blog should be labelled as a minority blog, perhaps just senator Inhofe's blog.

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When you let a minority of people talk on the majority's behalf, labeling them as «representatives» this is the sort of stupidity that usually comes out.

In a statement they issued, the minority said that «we find it totally unjustifiable and unacceptable that the Deputy Minister would label the entire people of the three Northern Regions who he says he has lived with for 27 years, as unreasonable people, accomplished and persistent liars, people with a high propensity for perpetrating fraud, people who all the time use these fraudulent acts to steal money from the state.»

In many countries in Western Europe, there is often a rhetoric about how much multiculturalism and diversity is valued, and in the meantime countries in Eastern Europe are often labeled as being too nationalistic and are often accused of oppressing the rights of minorities.

2006 - 2008 Dems take congress, Repubs use filibuster more than any minority party in our nation's history while labeling the Dems as «The do nothing congress».

Mr Lewis said the minority of the party membership that voted for Liz Kendall could be labelled extremists just as Mr Corbyn and his allies once had been

Founded by a merger of the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party, the party can be simplistically labelled as a mixture of economic liberalism and social liberalism, and it has become fashionable to insist that while the party could sit comfortably with such differences when in opposition, it is much trickier when in government, particularly as a minority party.

In January this year when the NPP Minority Caucus held a press conference and warned of problems that were looming we were labeled as doomsayers.

Sure there is a chunk of the Conservative Party which is deeply unpleasant and certainly deserves the label «nasty party» but they are vey much a minority and a shrinking minority at that as the grim reaper whittles down their numbers year upon year.

[96] Meanwhile, House leadership weighed in on the process, with Speaker Steven Tilley calling it an overall «positive» process and Minority Leader Mike Talboy instead labeling the negotiations as, «a textbook example of how not to [redistrict]...» [97] Talboy also said he felt he had the votes to block an override, something that would require Democratic unanimity plus four Republican votes.

In essence, I learned that everyone did not have my best interest at heart just because they wore the same minority labels as I.

Based on the two surveys, the researchers found that a small minority of fast - food consumers met all conditions, and therefore would be expected to change their eating behavior as a result of menu calorie labeling.

She brings a new twist to the issue of the gap between American minority low - income children and middle - class children; what has engaged her passions and formidable abilities is not the academic gap, though of course she is fully aware of it, but the gap in the ability to participate effectively in the civic life, to influence political choices, the «Civic Empowerment» gap, as she labels it.

Most pronounced is the dramatic overrepresentation of African - American male children labeled «mentally retarded» and «emotionally disturbed» compared to whites, as well as other minorities.

This plan labeled «racially imbalanced» any school at which the percentage of black students exceeded by more than 20 % the minority population of the school district as a whole.

Educrats all over the country have begun to persuade federal education officials to grant waivers from NCLB, adopting the position that it is unfair to label schools as failing when the performance gaps between ethnic groups are so wide and when minority children lag so far behind their White, more affluent peers.

Many schools «failed» year after year, and as 2014 approached, the majority of public schools in the nation had been declared failures, including some excellent, highly regarded schools (typically, the group that was not making sufficient progress toward 100 percent proficiency was students with disabilities, and the schools that were likeliest to be labeled as failing enrolled high proportions of poor and minority students).

Thanks in part to a board of education dominated by conservative reformers such as Andy Smarick of the American Enterprise Institute and former Thomas B. Fordham Institute President Chester Finn Jr. (the latter of whom presided over the think tank's initial activism against the Obama - era guidance), the Old Line State only plans to intervene when suspension levels for poor, minority, and special ed - labeled children are three times higher than that of other peers.

The Montgomery County school district encompasses two demographically different communities, one composed almost entirely of white and Asian professional families — residing in neighborhoods that school authorities refer to as the «green zone» — and another composed of mainly poor and minority families, who live in what the school district labels the «red zone.»

To challenge the labeling of students from minority groups as disabled, assessment must focus on (a) the extent to which children's language and culture are incorporated into the school program, (b) the extent to which educators collaborate with parents in a shared enterprise, and (c) the extent to which children are encouraged to use both their first and second languages actively in the classroom to amplify their experiences in interaction with other children and adults.

As Bronwen Dickey discusses in her recent book Pit Bull (Knopf, 2016), society has a long tradition of labeling dogs commonly kept by poor people and racial minorities as dangerouAs Bronwen Dickey discusses in her recent book Pit Bull (Knopf, 2016), society has a long tradition of labeling dogs commonly kept by poor people and racial minorities as dangerouas dangerous.

The alleged scientific majority has declared that the debate is over and anything the minority scientists say is labeled as disinformation and prosecutable.

It would seem, however, that Spotify is eager to shore up more economic goodwill with potential investors, as well as the «big three» record labels that all have minority stakes in the company and an interest in seeing its IPO do well.

AASECT opposes the application of labels such as «normal» and «abnormal» to these variations in the healthy sexual expression of adults, and AASECT believes that all sexual and cultural minorities should enjoy sexual freedom, equal civil rights, and parity of social opportunities and privileges.