Sentences with phrase «minority position»

Two more were established as minority positions (on a review of the civil legal aid system and democratic representation on police authorities) which went to conference.

They partner with a select number of new companies each year, usually adopting minority positions.

The only way that things like this can happen, minority positions gaining moral victories, is based on a premise that objective morals exist.

Gertner got back into the cannabis business in 2014 with PharmaCan (now Cronos Group), a holding company that acquires or buys minority positions in licensed Canadian marijuana producers.

The claim that «justification by faith alone» is the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae (the doctrine by which the Church stands or falls) is a distinctly minority position among Protestants who call themselves evangelicals.

In the long history of humanity, of course, their unbelief is an anomaly, a distinctly minority position.

MetLife is a «de-mutualized» stock company, putting it in the very minority position as our lone stock company among the mutuals.

The portfolio of FII includes minority positions in 21 portfolio companies with aggregated sales and EBITDA equal to about $ 2.3 bn and $ 282m.

You protect minorities only because the majority determines that there are certain minority positions that deserve protection.»

«Church for others»: that is an open church, and it must remain so despite our continuing minority position.

Indeed, some industry watchers, like fiscal policy expert Jack Mintz, say state - owned enterprises should be limited to holding minority positions in certain sectors.

This is an extreme minority position.

What I hope does not happen is a further fragmentation of the evangelical community as a result of its new minority position in American politics.

MetLife is a «de-mutualized» stock company, putting it in the very minority position as our lone stock company among the mutuals.

Our protest against «the naked public square» was then a distinctly minority position, whereas today there is a much more widespread recognition that church - state jurisprudence is a shambles, and that the democratic process requires the vigorous engagement of the religiously based moral convictions of the American people.

One strategy is that you can grant shares at a valuation for tax purposes, which include a number of discount factors, including the minority position.

That, says Jaggers, was a key factor in his firm's decision last June to join forces with Summit Partners in plunking down $ 30 million for a minority position in WebSideStory.

His large buyout firm Onex Corp. controls all of Celestica's multiple voting shares, granting him unassailable control even while owning a minority position.

For their growth strategy their typical investment is up to $ 30 million in either control or minority positions.

Though there are still Christian denominations that insist that the King James version of 1611 is the most accurate, that is very much a minority position.

I also think that a majority culture can easily ignore the sentiments and circumstances of those in a minority position; whereas those in a minority position are well - versed in the dominant culture.

Thus the majority culture («the privileged») felt surprised that people in a minority position (in this case, some African Americans) had a different perspective on life, country and religion.

There are some, though it is a minority position among New Testament scholars, who think that the apocalyptic passages attributed to Jesus were interpolations of early Christian thought.

This position is known as «eliminative materialism» and while it is a minority position today, it is the only logical conclusion of a materialist understanding of the mind and consciousness.

Yet, such views (which were mainstream just a few decades ago) are indeed now a minority position — and viewed as unacceptable by many in society find unacceptable.

The rationalist strain never entirely disappeared, but, like the Chinese Moists, has been a distinctly minority position.

Many of these internal factors were muted or a minority position in Islam and were wholly absent in China.

(This is a minority position among other faith groups.)

But Willingen did not use the terms missional or missio dei, it was there that a minority position began to emerge which swelled into a majority position.

When we talk with our friends and colleagues, we are keenly aware that we represent a minority position.

He admits that this evangelical and catholic vision of the Lutheran church is «a minority position» — indeed, with Mattox, Marshall and Hütter converting, it is even more so.

But the social dimension has been a minority position within mainline Christian denominations and has been effectively countered by a very strong individualistic strain in American Christian life.

Recently some Orthodox thinkers have taken a more welcoming stance toward homosexuals, but this is a minority position.

Mainline churches must abandon our historic triumphalism, assume our minority position with dignity and, without abandoning our principles, learn to establish relationships of mutual respect with both ancient and new spiritualities that proclaim values not wholly alien to the Reign of God.

PizzaRev announced March 19 that Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. has taken a minority position in its innovative «Craft Your Own» fast - casual pizza concept.

PizzaRev announced today that Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. has taken a minority position in its innovative «Craft Your Own» fast - casual pizza concept.

Al Davis of the Raiders naturally takes a minority position.

Even if a referendum was called, support for independence remains a minority position, with just 46 % backing exit from the UK.

Anything agreed at that meeting, together with any minority positions which receive the support of a quarter of the forum will go forward to Labour's Autumn conference in Manchester.

Three others received between 28 and 33 votes — not enough to establish a minority position — on the excessively revolutionary issues of gaps in anti-discrimination legislation, increasing numbers of parent governors at academy schools, changing balloting arrangements for school selections, and strengthening enforcement of the national minimum wage.

If you can do any of get, say, a couple of million people to sign a petition calling for the abolition of the minimum wage; win parliamentary seats by running on this issue; or provide polling evidence showing majorities would repeal the race, gender discrimination laws, etc then I will withdraw the claim about this being a minority position.

«That section of the Labour left have been in a minority position [within Labour] for years and so kind of piggy - backed on the SWP infrastructure.

Embarrassed for harboring the minority position that the actual author of the great canon was Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford?

Support in a positive manner all actions taken by the Board of Trustees even when a particular Trustee is in a minority position on such actions.

Why, then, should we behave differently with our minority positions in wonderful businesses?