Sentences with phrase «makes small minority»

In addition, it makes small minority -, veteran -, and women - owned businesses in this industry eligible to receive dedicated funding for market growth through the state's «Strategic Energy Investment Fund.»

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Sure some people make money on tax liens, but it's the small minority and not an investment suited for someone who doesn't first have tens of thousands of dollars invested.

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.

The least you could do is be clear to your readers that the recomendations you are making are geared towards a small minority of upper income earners.

CNN iReport: Mormon Democrats gather at DNC, push back on Mormon GOP image Democrats make up only 7 percent of Utah's Mormon community, but the small minority came out in full force Tuesday night at an LDS Democrats event in Charlotte, N.C..

it's the ridiculously small minority who commit heinous acts in the name of their religion who make all Muslims look bad.

man people are so stupid and ignorant these days, maybe a minority of Muslims who act violently make you believe that, but those guys are a very small fraction of the whole Muslim population.

So if your minority makes up 49 % of the population they will potentially never get elected unless they are clustered together in one small area.

Bufkin portrayed the move to deny the black couple a chance to marry in the church as the work of a small minority whom he called «radicals» and who he said made mostly anonymous calls to their pastor to complain about the black couple's wedding.

We've work too long and too hard making this country a bastion of freedom and tolerance to let a small minority of unrelenting hater - mongers manipulate us and turn us against ourselves and our principles.

When I used to attend (evangelical christian) church there was always a vocal strain of folks who wanted to think they were persecuted, they told made - up stories about christians being persecuted in various parts of the world (at the time a lot of them were set in the U.S.S.R.)... it was so obvious that they LOVED thinking of themselves as some small group of martyrs, that they NEEDED to imagine themselves to be a persecuted minority... holding on to some secret truth that the rest of the world had turned its back on.

But those who like to read and reflect are often potential leaders in congregations, and even a small minority can make a program feel like a success.

Responding to another wave of mass suicides of farmers in July 2006, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made it clear that only a small minority in India can and will enjoy «Western standards of living and high consumption.»

Before 1914 Protestantism made its chief numerical gains through immigration, chiefly of Germans in Brazil and of Waldenses in Uruguay and Argentina, but these were small minorities.

It is a shame that American media only depicts one side or I should say a small minority that will most likely fit into a mold to make the most money.

* sigh * I realize that I'm in a very small minority, but the fact is that the taste of maple just makes me shiver with oogies.

In addition to ensuring our suppliers comply with the food safety standards recognized by Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), we make a concerted effort to give diverse companies such as small, women - owned, minority - owned and veteran - owned businesses the opportunity to supply quality product options that meet our company's growing business needs.

If not then Wenger may well feel that it is a small and vocal minority calling for him to leave or be sacked and so a lack of clarity could see us stuck with him for at least one more season and if we have not made our feelings clear then we could hardly complain too much could we?

Of course it's a small minority in a small section of the ground — not the 5,000 Chelsea fans against 47,000 ravenous, vicious West Ham fans as the Daily Star would have it — but still, it makes me sad.

But auditors — and Children's Centre staff themselves — felt they needed to do more to identify and provide outreach services to families with high levels of need, and the NAO found that «less progress was being made in improving services for fathers, parents of children with disabilities, and for ethnic minorities in areas with smaller minority populations».

While many mothers who formula feed their babies often say they've been shamed by breastfeeding mothers (which isn't a very kind move, people: knock it off) breastfeeding mothers are in the minority and many of us make up for our smaller numbers by being super-vocal and passionate about our right to nurse and the benefits of breastfeeding.

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.

It does, however, make a distinction between persons who have the «right of abode» (British citizens including a small minority of Commonwealth citizens) and those who do not have this right (for more details see Anderson and Blinder, 2014).

Seven professional bodies work together to maintain and update Professional Conduct in Relation to Taxation (PCRT), which seeks to govern the conduct of tax professionals in the context of the «tripartite relationship» between the tax adviser, their client or employer, and HMRC.2 John Cullinane said: «We believe the PCRT Standards for Tax Planning make it clear to any of the small minority of tax professionals who are tempted to facilitate and promote tax avoidance schemes that this behaviour is not acceptable.

At 1 p.m., de Blasio will attend the Rainbow PUSH Coalition's 21st Annual Wall Street Project Economic Summit, where he will make an announcement on minority and women owned business enterprises and small businesses, Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, 811 Seventh Ave., Manhattan.

Though Libertarians are a small minority of the Republican electorate, they can make a disproportionate amount of noise online.

The reason we haven't included Ryan on our Line is because being a member of the minority party in the House is a very small platform on which to make a national impact.

I did not recognise, at the point that this visit was arranged, a need to disclose to my officials and the High Commission that Abid Hussain and I have a common business interest as minority shareholders in a small food company... I sincerely regret that I did not consider the significance of this relationship with Mr Hussain when the arrangements for the visit were being made... I am sorry.

Asked why the Brown did not accept the need for a secret ballot to take on his critics once and for all, Balls said the prime minister has «got more important things to do than be diverted by a very small minority of people who have been making difficulty time and time again over the last few days».

gays were a small vocal minority, but they kept making waves, and so will we.

They made the rules but a small minority seem either incapable of living by them, or in other cases understanding them.

How is a upstart ultra minority party going to build support when the simple act of making a choice on a candidate is going to upset half of its already small base?

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a federal investigation into payments made to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver by a small law firm and Albany County legislature rejecting a proposed settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit about the county under representing minorities in the redistricting plan.

CELEBRATING THE AMERICAN WORKFORCE ON LABOR DAY Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb (R,C - Canandaigua) The American worker, in farms, factories and small businesses, makes our country the great place that it is.

He says a «very small minority» has been making trouble.

As far as impeachment over the NSA thing, I think it would make the Democratic party a permanent, and even smaller, minority party.

Although the sample size was small in her study, Erin Cech says she found that «an additional axis of being a minority makes it more difficult to find a connection among their peers.

However, this will only make up a very small minority of the population and most typical lifters will fall somewhere within that 20 - 40 pound range.

I see interracial couples every day and my next door neighbors are an interracial couple but they make up a small minority of the couples I see.

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

Small minorities have remained in education (it appears mostly in policy positions) and have a direct opportunity to make a difference in the status quo.

Probationary (new - to - the - district) teachers make up a small minority of any district's workforce, and so don't have any clout in union elections.

While we have made tremendous progress as a charter school movement, there remains a small but powerful minority that opposes our progress, and they are doing all they can to knock us off stride.

Thus, there is no overall or average learning benefit for small group teaching, but there is a bit of rotation that ensures that minority kids make the least progress.

For the past 15 years, she made a career in strengthening and assisting small and minority entrepreneurs with starting, growing and succeeding in business.

You see, I became passionate about credit — obsessed even — and made it my goal to become one of the small minority to pass 800.

On the other hand, a small minority prove not only is it possible to turn a profit but that you can also make huge returns.

Even though communities sometimes have one opponent who is very vocal and makes it seem like people want the cats gone, that idea is held by a small minority.

They all seem to have this shallow discourse about «finding freedom by selling everything to travel permanently» when, well, if you have an «everything» to sell at your 20's, that makes you a pretty small minority.

Da Lat is also relatively small, making it incredibly convenient to explore expansive lakes, minority villages and breathtaking waterfalls as well as interesting landmarks, including Emperor Bao Dai's Summer Palace and Da Lat's French Quarter on foot.