Sentences with phrase «made by the minority»

Mr. Osei Owusu, also the Chairman of the Appointments Committee, said a confession had been made to the effect that the allegation was made by some Minority members to settle scores, following prior claims by the Majority side that Mr. Mahama was corrupt.

His comments were in relation to the formation of a parliamentary committee which investigated claims made by the Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak that the Millennium Excellence Foundation charged expatriates...

The allegation of extortion against expatriates at the awards ceremony was first made by the Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak, in Parliament in December 2017.

The allegation was first made by the Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak in Parliament in December 2017.

There were so many films made by minorities (females, people of color, LGBTQ + people, people with disabilities, etc) about minorities.

The report, released by the American Council on Education last week, expresses optimism about the progress made by minority students, but argues that challenges to affirmative action and public skepticism about such policies «make it imperative» that colleges articulate the importance of racial and ethnic diversity...

Alonso said the improvement among white students somewhat masks the great gains made by minorities.

The fact that services like Author Solutions have expanded the methods by which people can publish, and increased the ease of access to publishing services, does not transform a choice made by a minority of the population — to create a book — into an entitlement.

Umberger seemed circumspectly optimistic about the broader implications of this growing receptiveness to vernacular art: «[The] more often public audiences encounter powerful art made by minority demographics, the more lopsided old narratives appear, and the mandate for inclusion continues to grow.»

The recommendations must however, be expanded to incorporate the discussion and recommendations made by the minority in their dissenting report, particularly those for funding NTRBs.

Not exact matches

Chris Sacca, founder of Lowercase Capital, explains why there's a lot of money to be made by companies run by minority and women founders.

It's easy to discriminate against the minority cobbler down the street by traveling a few extra blocks to buy from «your own kind»; it's much harder to act out your racist biases when buying shoes at a big department store because, well, you have no idea what colour or sex or sexual orientation of the person who made those shoes is.

According to a 2013 study by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire, minority entrepreneurs accounted for just 7 percent of pitches made to angel investors (13 percent resulted in an investment).

In 2011, the Department of Justice announced a plan to resolve claims that women and other minorities were discriminated against by the USDA in making and servicing farm loans.

On Thursday, Pandora said it was exploring interest that had been expressed by an unnamed strategic investor in making a «substantial minority investment.»

An alternative would have been to make the merger subject to approval by a majority of their minority shareholders.

That statistic makes a ton of sense when you consider that at present 49 percent of kids under age 15 are minorities, -LSB-[PLEASE LINK DIRECTLY TO THE RESEARCH FOR THIS INFO, INSTEAD OF A NEWS ARTICLE]-RSB- and by 2055 there won't be a single ethnic or racial majority.

It's quick and easy to add a tag when we're replying to a customer, and seeing the number of requests per tag makes it easier to choose what to work on next without being overwhelmed by the vocal minority.

Because the IRS treats «minority - stock transfers» favorably, you can reduce the size of your taxable estate by making gifts of stock shares while you are alive.

Brad Feld, founder of Incubator Techstars, estimates that women - led companies now make up around 10 percent of TechStars» portfolio, and that companies led by immigrants or minority entrepreneurs make up another 10 percent — but of course they can only work with what teams choose to apply.

During 2016, we've tracked participation in our accelerator programs and have made measurable progress to increase participation by women and underrepresented minorities within our applicant pool, mentors, and staff.

In that sense, the Fed has the potential to make a huge structural difference in the economic lives of blacks and other minorities by heavily weighting the full employment part of the their mandate relative to the inflation part, especially since there's still considerable slack in the job market, with lower - wage, minority workers facing the brunt of it, and — importantly — little evidence of inflationary pressure (if anything, the Fed has missed their inflation target on the low side for a few years running now).

With an increasingly diversified group of investors made available to new startups, experts expect increased funding for women and minorities by women and minorities.

The fact that none of these family offices reported targeting direct or co-investments above $ 5 million is also telling, as these California family offices unanimously prefer to make minority and small - to - middle - market deals, rather than executing some of the large deals that have been done by family offices and co-investment groups in recent years.

Hansson's skepticism is in line with opposition by a minority of officials including Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann, who has argued that sovereign - debt purchases involve unwarranted risks and undermine the incentive of governments to make economic reforms.

The report, which was first made by Sky News, says that Google is in «advanced talks» to place a minority $ 30 million stake in Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and invest an undisclosed amount that is somewhere in the range of «hundreds of millions of dollars» in Sir Richard Branson's ambitious space tourism venture, which aims to take well - heeled clients who can pay $ 200,000 for a ticket to an orbital space flight around the Earth.

At Slack, by contrast, underrepresented minorities make up almost 13 percent of technical roles and roughly 13 percent of all employees; they also make up 6 percent of leadership.

A minority government would breathe new life into Alberta's Legislative Assembly, which has largely become a rubber - stamp for decisions made behind closed doors by PC cabinet ministers and MLAs.

As it did on the Peet's deal, BDT Capital Partners, the merchant bank run by a former Goldman Sachs rain maker, Byron D. Trott, advised Benckiser and will make a minority investment as well.

Can't believe they allow people to make laws against a minority group based on some book that was written by men thousands of years ago (and revised countless times).

Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority by Peter Skerry Free Press, 461 pages, $ 27.95 What the rapidly growing number of Mexican Americans are ambivalent about is how they should make it into the American mainstream.

M. Kelly is correct... Santa and Jesus are white... it is getting absolutely ridiculous to try and ruin everything because a minority of people are not happy... too bad... that's life... get over it... I am not afraid of these people who try and make me do what they want by saying I am a bigot or whatever... I am just a realist.

The Dutch people are tolerant, he told me, and hence in Amsterdam, there are no ethnic or religious minorities, an achievement made possible by the fact that although a majority of residents are of Dutch descent, only around 25 percent call themselves Christian.

Finally, by making it necessary that elections be conducted as contests of like against like (female against female, minority against minority, etc.) the system extended vast powers to the nominating process and enabled those in power to recruit just those board members most likely to agree with their purposes and keep them in power.

Choices of profound importance had to be made, not only by clans and tribes as a whole, but by minority groups and individuals, and nothing more imperiously calls out the sense of personal worth and dignity than the exercise of moral choice.

The provenance of some of this concern is perhaps unsurprising given that the crowds who came (over 6000 to the Oxford Oratory, for instance) included a minority of Senior Citizens, who might possibly remember the cult of relics from their youth, but was mainly made up by the young and middle - aged.

Trump wants to give «priority» to non-Muslims, despite the fact that more Christians than Muslims have been resettled since 9/11: The executive order says it will «prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious - based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual's country of nationality.»

Atheists are minority in the U.S. and the world no matter what «secular» sources and polls voted by few thousands of people tells you that were made up by silly atheists dreaming about making America more atheist, unbiblical and unGodly than what it actually is.

Tyagi Bill supported by the Prime Minister Desai restricting religious conversion and also the discrimination of scheduled caste converts to Christianity in the special benefits to people of the scheduled caste background, may be mentioned as violations of the covenant on the part of the State; and the Christian people have been unhappy at giving up minority communal safeguards and many efforts to organize Christian political parties off and on have been made in several states especially in the South by Christians.

In a televised interview after he left the platform in defeat, McCloskey said he had hoped these young Americans would support his proposal (by far the most lenient and reasonable of the draft bills introduced up to now) because it would make our military - defense system more equitable and representative; the present all - volunteer army is made up of more than 40 per cent minority youth.

Passage of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment («Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...») was one of the first effective exertions of political muscle by minority groups in the United States.

♦ A colleague at Harvard passes on this broadsheet issued by the «Coalition for Civil Rights,» a group made up of «spokespersons» for myriad ethnic and racial minorities, plus gays, lesbians, and assorted lifestyle liberationisms.

Unlike that of the dominant group, the culture of some of the minority groups did not make decisions using Robert's Rules of Order or by politicking.

Moreover, such criticism has been made by those involved, and it has been taken with increasing seriousness as the movement has attained greater maturity and impact: witness the large representation of poor and minority women at the 1977 National Women's Conference in Houston.

It is understood that the appeal they are making is not different in substance from the appeal made by those sexual minorities whose progress has come ahead of theirs.

Nearly all of us would fail to conform to the generalizations made by the most strident complementarians, but intersex people like Adrian, and LGBT people like those you might meet at The Gay Christian Network, are truly in the minority.

Though only a few of the broadcasters were politically involved, their wide constituency which was made possible by the mass media and the passionate loyalty which they appeared to engender from this constituency made them a minority group whose power exceeded their number.

Child - free marriage is viewed as a minority decision, but one that can be responsibly made by those concerned with overpopulation or those whose personal careers and psychological capacities do not dispose them to parenting.

It seems ridiculous and it makes me sad to see such a powerful, beautiful religion being condemned by people that are misinformed and led to believe it's the majority of the religion and not the very very minute minority.

Emerging brands accelerator Sunrise Strategic Partners has made a minority investment in Atlanta - based KILL CLIFF, a sports recovery beverage with added electrolytes, B vitamins, ginger root, ginseng root, and green tea, developed by former Navy Seal...