Sentences with phrase «old white majority»

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In 1960, the overwhelming majority of prime - age white adults (the cohort of 30 to 49 - year - olds that Murray focuses on) in Belmont and Fishtown were married, bore very few children out of wedlock, and rarely divorced.

A recent survey showed that the majority of people questioned pictured God as «an old man with a long white beard up in the sky.»

Probably not, but he'd understand the necessary evil of it since a vast majority of the NFL old white owners more than likely wouldn't give a minority coach / GM candidate the time of day unless they were already intimately familiar with them.

The Camden - born midfielder has spent the majority of his life playing for Spurs after joining as an eight - year - old but there were worries that he would realise his vast potential elsewhere with top clubs in England and on the continent keen to offer him a route away from White Hart Lane.

Failure to enact campaign finance reform will turn the country over to a group of «angry, old white men,» warned US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

«Similarly, large majorities of Democrats, New York City voters, blacks, Latinos and younger voters want the Feds to bring civil rights charges, while Republicans are opposed, and upstaters, suburbanites, white and older voters are closely divided,» Greenberg said.

The majority are college educated white males 30 - 50 years old with previous marital experience.

For the record, I in no way disapprove of the direction Jolie took on her second directorial effort, but I do believe that working in a genre beloved by the old, white male majority that dominates AMPAS» current membership is extremely advantageous.

When: August 28th Why: No disrespect to fans of electronic dance music, but «We Are Your Friends» looks dumb as hell, and I'd like to think that a majority of EDM enthusiasts would agree, because everything about this movie stinks of a bunch of old white guys in suits trying to cash in on the latest trend without any knowledge of the actual culture.

The majority have seen it through reproductions and are familiar with the painting, which portrays an old - fashioned, stiff and sour couple, standing in front of a small white house.