Sentences with phrase «large ethnic»

A large ethnic rug is a great way of bringing colour and interest to a hallway.

Wall art and a large ethnic rug complement this hardwearing flagstone flooring, which holds heat for hours — great if you opt for an underfloor heating system.

One real estate rep for a large ethnic grocer in Southern California decided not to hire a star broker at a major firm because of his big mouth.

Although the two regions shared a common religion (Islam) large ethnic and linguistic differences existed which in 1971, following the Bangladesh Liberation War, led to the formation of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) as a country separate from both India and Pakistan.

I came from a large ethnic family with Italian and Croatian influences.

Those who are looking for fresh cloves but live outside of natural growing regions must typically look for them in large ethnic markets.

«Our biggest problem is finding time to do lab - based science,» says Richard Aguilera, a former principal who four years ago decided to return to the classroom, «and our large ethnic population [the Hmong of Southeast Asia] poses a special challenge.

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.

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

But the problem is more acute for Goldsmith because politically, London is a left - leaning city, with liberal values and a large ethnic minority population.

«So there is a very large ethnic vote in this country in our inner cities.

Indians are the largest ethnic minority in the UK.

Kikuyu is a the largest ethnic group in Kenya and therefore, a handful of people who watched the video noticed.

[3] The largest ethnic group is the Ashanti people.

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

Kenyatta is widely seen as the candidate of the Kikuyu people, the country's largest ethnic group.

But a survey commissioned in 2002 by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research found that the country's four largest ethnic minority groups are hardly represented at all among Dutch university staff members.

(Bosniaks, often referred to as Bosnian Muslims, are the largest ethnic group in the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina (B.I.H.); they form a minority in neighboring Serbia.)

The China, Oxford and Virginia Commonwealth University Experimental Research on Genetic Epidemiology (CONVERGE) project on Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) sequenced 11,670 female Han Chinese at low - coverage (1.7 X), providing the first large - scale whole genome sequencing resource representative of the largest ethnic group in the world.

Hispanic students have now passed white students as the largest ethnic group in Texas schools, making up almost 51 percent of public school enrollment, the Dallas Morning News reports.

Today, the Hispanic population comprises 44 million people, making people of Hispanic origin the nations largest ethnic or race minority.

I have included stories from India, as this is the largest ethnic minority in the UK, and I thought it would be nice to see the differences and similarities between the two countries.

Figure 3 - 1 displays statistics for the state's four largest ethnic groups, showing the number of suspensions for each group.

Blacks are the largest ethnic group at both schools.

His data - driven achievements include an award for attaining the largest ethnic group performance gap closure for the 2014 — 2015 school year.

Children in the youngest and largest ethnic group need universal prekindergarten, rich language programs, and bilingual teachers.

Hispanics have passed whites as the largest ethnic group in Texas schools, making up almost 51 percent of public school enrollment.

Meanwhile, Hispanic students are now the largest ethnic group in Florida charter schools, making up 38 percent of students in that sector in 2013 - 14, compared to 29 percent in district schools, redefinED reported in July.

Latinos are the largest ethnic group in the charter schools, but they are not present in any school at a rate higher than 70 percent (also note that five of the six are located in majority - Latino cities: Los Angeles, Houston, and San Antonio).

It was believed that the January 1966 coup was initiated by Igbo officers (the Igbo or Ibo are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa...

The Maya culture is one of the largest ethnic groups in Belize and you can see bits of Mayan culture in the food, the people, and the landscape.

The internal strife of the island is too complicated to go into in depth, but it evolved around a long - standing tension between the two largest ethnic groups — the majority Singhalese, (predominantly Buddhists) and the Tamils who are mainly Hindu.

Kurdistan — an area that is not a country, but an area spread across Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria — is inhabited by the Kurds, a group considered to be the largest ethnic community without its own country.

At the national level, Latinos are the largest ethnic minority in the country, comprising almost 17 percent of the total population.

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.

Indeed, we have seen a large increase of reported incidents of violence against Muslims, Hispanics, blacks, ethnic minorities, and the LGBT community since the election last week.

Rising prices for assets seem to make most people better off, unless they are renters, or ethnic minorities, or immigrants, or come from large families and don't inherit a home of their own, or get sick and need to pay for medical care, or get fired, or get their pension fund ripped off or otherwise fall outside what most people think of as the bell - shaped curve of good fortune.

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.

This makes the Chinese community the eighth largest in Canada in terms of ethnic...

Such missteps are inexcusable for a country that now counts ethnic Chinese as its largest immigrant group and China as its fastest - growing trading partner.

In Niebuhr's memorable typology, the «Christ against culture» position is generally associated with the anabaptists, Tolstoyans, and various sects that position themselves as communal alternatives to the larger society, based of course not on ethnic distinctives but on fidelity to the gospel.

Two momentous changes long ago transformed the legal world that Lincoln knew: increased specialization, prompted by the rise of corporate firms at the turn of the century, and a large influx of new lawyers from relatively unassimilated ethnic groups at about the same time.

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.

This ethnic tension did not hold for the other Greek Jewish communities, and the large proportion of Jews of the rest of Greece survived, not least because of support from their Christian fellow - citizens.

A human person is an example of such a personal order, and one could extend this image to include larger and more complex corpuscular societies, such as ethnic groups, geographical communities, or subcultures.

Instead be writes about and for people who typically get exactly what they want, in large part because they have been conditioned by the world around them to desire what that world can provide: the right automobile; ethnic or trend - setting foods; a lucrative but not socially embarrassing job; a residence identifiable, in architecture and interior design, with a style that has a name.

Pentecostals range from the most developed Assemblies of God churches (increasingly taking on the shape of wider Protestant church life) through southern Holiness - Pentecostal churches, the intensely sectarian «Jesus only» unitarian Pentecostals, and large black and ethnic churches, to the uncharacteristic extremes of Appalachian «snake - handlers,» all too often the only public image of «holy rollers.»

In its second and third generations, the ethnic community is integrated into the larger multicultural scene, and another important strategy comes to the fore.

Third, it refreshes us that as the ethnic congregations take their place within the larger church, their life will provide new strength and vision for the total church.

As a rule, this happened under the cloak of fighting the partisans [in Soviet territories], yet those who were directly or indirectly involved could scarcely fail to see that the SS brigades and Einsatzgruppen were carrying out a comprehensive «ethnic cleansing,» to which the Wehrmacht, if only by condemning large numbers of Russians to starvation, were giving active support.»