Sentences with phrase «minority members»

The formation of an association diversity task force, made up of minority members of the association to address issues as they arise and monitor education efforts.

A higher proportion of life peers than MPs are women, and significant numbers of ethnic minority members have been appointed in recent years.

The majority just has to work a lot less to get that difference to 60 by flipping few minority members to vote with them.

A good first step is to introduce yourself to new minority members at local association meetings.

Only journalists throw a bone to minority members hungry for some attention.

All self - identified minority members are invited to join the caucus for their quarterly meeting and elections.

There are two women in the four «great offices of state» and six ethnic minority members, the most ever.

The idea of issuing subpoenas was raised publicly by Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat and the ranking minority member on the chamber's Environmental Conservation Committee, earlier this month.

In a statement, Latimer, who is the ranking minority member on the Senate Education Committee, accused Astorino of sinking to a «new low» by «using his children as political props to make points that are pure fiction.»

Travel warnings from the Canadian embassy, the US and the UK, indicating imminent threats of terrorist attacks in the country has moved minority members in parliament to demand immediate action from government to assure the safety of the public.

It was engineered by minority members who voiced concern about speculation that he might not be able to hold on to the leadership in the wake of the AEG scandal and likely return to power of the Senate GOP.

Dr. Ayine is pushing for a withdrawal on grounds that the report, which was presented to the House on Friday, did not include the final input from Minority members.

We have tens of thousands of minority members who have worked hard to build a successful real estate career and who promote a positive image both in and out of the association and the real estate industry.

Mr. Suhuyini, along with two other Minority members of the Appointments Committee; Mahama Ayariga and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, MPs for Bawku Central and North Tongu, have written to the Speaker of Parliament calling for a thorough investigation of the bribery claims against the Mr. Agyarko.

He has long been a conservative Democrat, however, and was the first minority member in modern history to be given a committee chairmanship (Social Services back in 2007) by then - Majority Leader Joe Bruno.

Second, he says Canadians who see themselves better reflected in a cabinet with as many women as men, and more visible minority members, will be more inclined to «cut the government some slack.»

Ayariga, the MP for Bawku Central, caused public outrage when he claimed on pro-NDC network — Radio Gold — recently that the Minority Chief Whip who is the NDC MP for Asawase, shared envelopes containing GH cents 3,000 for minority members serving on the Appointments Committee to approve Mr. Agyarko.

«I think this is his way of trying to show his constituents that he is just not going to be the typical Downstate Democratic minority member of the Senate.»

One doesn't often see the words «enacted,» «repealed» or «passed» in the campaign literature of downtrodden, lower - than - whale - spit minority members of the state legislature.

President Mahama while addressing some supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region, suggested that, if minority members have been sleeping on the job hence their criticism of government loans which were discussed and approved by...

The US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's Ranking Minority Member strongly criticized Environmental Protection Agency Administrator E....

He is black, a selling point to downstate minority members, and would make history if elected.

When elected minority members motioned to fill the vacant seat with their candidate, Silverthorn and Reynolds walked out to deny the motion a quorum.

The Senate Democrats, not surprisingly, focused on the IDC ringleader, Sen. Jeff Klein, in their response to the news that the Republicans had provided three of the four renegade former minority members with committee chairmanships.

U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee Chair Mike Oxley, R - Ohio, and Ranking Minority Member Barney Frank, D - Mass., have requested that the U.S. Government Accountability Office study competition in the real estate industry.

It also turned out that at least two other clubs that hosted LPGA tournaments in 1990 had made no effort to attract minority members.

The 51 minority members only voted along with their leader, Brian Kolb, 90.94 percent of the time.

not a single minority member was involved with the latest week of budget negotiation, not a single committee has benn convened.

But Assembly Democrats can change their practices to allow minority members more power sharing.

According to legislators and staffers on both sides of the aisle, the Legislature's five Democratic minority members signed Mills» chairmanship petition.

Lord Ashcroft's polling suggests that this is also how even higher percentages of ethnic minority members interpret the word.

Retired diplomat K.B. Asante on his part said, Boakye Agyarko must resign over allegations that he attempted to bribe Minority members of the Appointments Committee.

The WNY Democrat pledges that he and his fellow minority members are ready to start working with the governor and calls on the Republicans to do the same.

Sources in the party have related that, various minority members of parliament have bemoaned against the incredibly deep rooted division their flagbearer Nana Akufo - Addo, has infested the party with.

Reporters are staking out the following locations in the Capitol this morning: The Senate GOP conference, the governor's office on the Capitol's second floor, and a Senate Democrats» press conference at which minority members are decrying the so - called «work stoppage» by the Republicans.

Here was a backbench minority member of the Assembly sounding as though the government couldn't function without him.

According to Dr. Ayine, though Minority members including himself and Deputy Minority Leader, James Klutse Avedzi had detailed their perspectives on the saga, the Majority side had refused to integrate them before presenting the document to the house.

She openly criticized the Colonie Democratic Committee for having just three minority members before the meeting.

He said that the residence near the Gold House was the exact location the former President hosted minority Members of Parliament who paid a visit to him this week.

(There is precedent for crossing the aisle to elevate minority members; both Sampson and former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno did so).

Assembly Democrats allow $ 100,000 to Republican minority members.

[Those senators] need to know that the 160 religious groups, including churches that rent space in public schools for their activities are all located in Democratic areas, and mostly minority members of the Democratic Party.

School board member Carl Paladino has been accused of his own invested interest in some of the area charter schools, while minority members are fighting to keep the schools open.

During the initial stages of the IDC creation, both Dennin and Solomon facilitated and tried to quell many of the contentious relationships that developed between the IDC and minority member offices.

Not much is expected of — and not many opportunities are afforded to — the roughly three - dozen GOP members of the 150 - seat state Assembly, so its permanent minority members specialize in hurling hot rhetoric and raging against the unfairness of the world.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont who is the top minority member of the Senate Budget Committee, announced late Friday that Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough had ruled that such state - specific provisions, along with several others, are subject to what's called the «Byrd rule.»

But we all must remember that what is best for the scientific community — to increase the diversity of the scientific workforce, especially in academia — isn't necessarily what's best for the community's individual minority members.