Sentences with phrase «minority positions in»

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Like its (effective) 45 % minority position in Digicel Holdings (Central America) Limited («DHCAL»), which is controlled by O'Brien & provides cellular services in Panama — despite continued losses & a write - off of its equity investment (in 2011), Digicel has continued to fund DHCAL with another $ 119 million (in interest - free cash loans) in the past 3 years, with an additional $ 23 million of loans in just the latest quarter.

Aimia also offers world - class data analytics through its Intelligent Shoppers Solutions suite of tools and has a minority position in Cardlytics, a pioneer of transaction - driven marketing in banking.

Leif The majority is against your own particular stance on solar vs climate too so it's odd for you to denigrate the minority position in anything.

CB Richard Ellis has bought a minority position in RealNet Canada, giving the two a shared real estate database that they say is now...

What is the current Prime Minister trying to attain (as any Prime Minister in a minority position in Parliament would try to attain?)

CB Richard Ellis has bought a minority position in RealNet Canada, giving the two a shared real estate database that they say is now the broadest in North America.

Not exact matches

Initiatives detailed in the White House fact sheet ranged from committing to the «Rooney rule,» a recruiting practice in which at least one woman and one minority are considered for each position, to more specific ideas and goals.

«Private - equity investors typically invest in minority - interest positions,» says Shattan.

One glaring problem is the lack of women or underrepresented minorities in tech leadership positions.

Elevating more women and underrepresented minorities to positions of power is becoming a business imperative for the firm, with clients demanding diversity in their legal teams, Erickson says.

Women are still a minority when it comes to leadership positions in the tech industry.

To position itself for the launch of the Atari Token, the company has acquired a minority stake in Infinity Networks, which is developing a decentralized blockchain technology for digital entertainment platforms.

It's actually very simple: Under the rule, at least one woman and one underrepresented minority must be considered in the slate of candidates for either every open position or every open senior position (the details vary from company to company).

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The PhD Project believes a diverse faculty encourages more minorities to pursue business degrees, thereby increasing the pool of minority applicants for positions in today's multicultural corporate environment.

The minority stake is «intended to establish a position from which to initiate discussions with Norwegian, including the possibility of a full offer,» IAG said in a statement.

Baidu also said it had recently bought a $ 10 million minority stake in IndoorAtlas, a company that offers a special technology that allows smartphone users» positions to be tracked inside buildings, which is often difficult due to the metal used in structures.

Five Elms was founded in 2007 by Fred Coulson and typically invests $ 2 million to $ 20 million for a minority or majority ownership position in growth equity, secondary, and later - stage venture opportunities.

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

As a NMSDC certified MBE, you are in the unique position to promote and market your services to prospective corporate buyers who are looking to build relationships with trusted minority - owned businesses.

From her start in San Francisco to her position as the highest - ranking female leader in U.S. government, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has had a long...

And then they decided that those companies had to have smiley minorities in «positions of authority».

There is, of course, always prejudice against minorities on the part of majorities; there are all kinds of ways to put minorities in an inferior position.

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

CNN Polling Director Keating Holland had this to say about the findings: «Only a minority of the rank - and - file members of both [Republicans and Democrats] take an extreme position on the issue, with just 31 % of Republicans calling for a complete ban on abortion and just 32 % of Democrats saying that abortion should be legal in all circumstances»...

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.

We all know of instances in which racial minorities, women, and colonized countries — as soon as they have gotten into a position of independence and power — have become more oppressive than those who had oppressed them.

Azariah who later became Bishop of Dornakal argued that the church in accepting the position of a communal political minority with special protection would become a static community and it would negate its self - understanding as standing for mission and service to the whole national community, that in any case the Indian church is not a single social or cultural community since it consists of people of diverse background, each of whom would have its own political struggle to wage in cooperation with the people of similar background in other religions; and therefore theologically and politically Christians should ask only for religious freedom for its mission and service to all people, not as a minority right, but as a human right (ref.

The Fundamentalists were a minority in 1920 and had to fight hard to maintain their position.

The second questionable way in which minorities in the once mainline churches try to re-form the churches is by identifying true Christianity with the adoption of what are perceived as radical positions on various contemporary issues of personal and social ethics.

This position of the Church as a self - conscious minority in two world - wide fellowships, whose strength is increasing most rapidly in the lands in which it has been weakest, augurs well for the future.

A minority church is a church in a stronger position to protest establishment injustice.

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.

A one in ten minority in society and an even smaller minority in the church (for obvious reasons) and an even smaller minority of ministers (as we are generally denied ministry positions) means that straight people will have to come around at some point before things really improve.

As a minority group living in a hostile culture, members of the early Christian churches were in no position to identify the bestowal of God's grace and blessing with national peace and prosperity.

Simultaneously the white, Anglo - Saxon, Protestants among these «mainline» groups were suffering cultural and economic eclipse on other fronts as «minority» Protestants, Roman Catholics, Jews, and persons of no religious affiliation improved their relative positions in the society.

On the other hand, liturgy points to the inward moment of theology: it reflects from its position in the midst of the confidence with which minority communities enact their religio - cultural pluralities and perform their distinctive particularities before God and community.

The assimilative force of the dominant culture is so great that few minority cultures are in position to learn from it without being absorbed by it.

Berelson and Steiner note that «even in extreme cases, there is usually a sizable minority of people who read or listen to material against or indifferent to their prior position — out of curiosity, accident (i.e., no foreknowledge of what the content will be), lack of predispositional strength or, importantly, simple accessibility of materials.»

Cut off for several months from his lecture course, which was now being given by someone else, he was already in less of a central position, an ex-member of a deputation that had failed in its object, and now in a small minority on a matter of policy.

Given the overwhelming evangelical ambience of the Sunbelt, however, and the safe assumption that the RCA must reflect that attitude in order to succeed in the area, it is not difficult to predict that what has been the dominant theological position of the church may very well in the next ten years become a minority one as the conservative evangelicalism of the new Sunbelt churches joins forces with the existing strength of that position in the midwest.

SACRAMENTO, CA, April 6, 2017 - RiceBran Technologies (NASDAQ: RIBT and RIBTW)(«RBT»), a global leader in the production and marketing of value added products derived from rice bran, today announced that it reached an agreement on Friday, March 31, 2017, with Alothon Group, LLC («Alothon»), its minority co-investor in Nutra SA, that terminated Alothon's roll - up rights, a process that would have allowed Alothon to swap its equity position in Nutra SA for an equivalent value of RiceBran Technologies common stock.

SACRAMENTO, CA, April 6, 2017 — RiceBran Technologies (NASDAQ: RIBT and RIBTW)(«RBT»), a global leader in the production and marketing of value added products derived from rice bran, today announced that it reached an agreement on Friday, March 31, 2017, with Alothon Group, LLC («Alothon»), its minority co-investor in Nutra SA, that terminated Alothon's roll - up rights, a process that would have allowed Alothon to swap its equity position in Nutra SA for an equivalent value of RiceBran Technologies common stock.