Sentences with phrase «only small minorities»

Only a small minority of users — university students, scientists and select government officials — have access to Kwangmyong, a domestic intranet «that offers email and websites but is totally shut off from the rest of the world,» according to a Slate article.

Only a small minority (roughly 15 to 20 per cent) of middle - income Canadians retiring without an employer pension plan have saved anywhere near enough for retirement and the vast majority of these families with annual incomes of $ 50,000 or more will be hard pressed to save enough in their remaining period to retirement (less than 10 years) to avoid significant fall in income.

Prior reviews and meta - analyses of employee stock ownership and profit sharing likewise found positive average relationships with performance, with only a small minority of negative estimates.26

Only a small minority (5 %) of the national academy of sciences believes in a personal prayer answering god — the «Born Again» Christian world view is an antiquated backward way of thinking that only serves to hold back the progress of this country and the world.

It may be only a small minority who are aware of the crisis, so far, but that minority is growing.

I'm not a religious person, but I believe this paints an even worse picture of christianity in the public's eye even though it's only a small minority of the religion doing this.

Except among certain tribes such as Keraits, Naimans, Merkits and Uighers (partially Christian), Christianity was only a small minority among the Central Asian people.

It should be empha sized that this view is shared by only a small minority.

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.»

Only a small minority of Roman Catholics, led by an eminent historian, Johann Josef Ignaz von Dollinger (1799 - 1890), declared that the Vatican decrees were untrue to history and, excommunicated by the Pope, constituted themselves the Old Catholic Church.

In a catalog I recently edited of devices and instruments for congregational research, only a small minority of the hundred or so entries is designed to explore a congregation's narrative identity.20 Most doctor of ministry programs continue the tradition: perusal of the theses and essays these programs produce strongly suggests that projects that employ contextual, mechanist, or organicist methods are more likely to be accepted than those that delve into congregational culture and story.

Even among true chileheads, domesticated varieties are the most popular and only a small minority are enthusiastic about wild species.

By Dr. Gerald Schmidt Even among true chileheads, domesticated varieties are the most popular and only a small minority are enthusiastic about wild species.

Only a small minority of people want wenger sacked right his second.

«If they bury their heads in the sand and pretend that it is only a small minority who want change across many levels of the club's structure, we will only see an escalation of the in - fighting we have witnessed in recent seasons.

Indeed, only a small minority of footballers playing in the five major European competitions have never taken part in other leagues from the beginning of their adult career up until their 23rd birthday.

But only a small minority 20 - 40 % of them get effective care.

As with any parenting choice, choosing to cloth diaper definitely comes with pros and cons — and to me, most of the cons are simply a result of cloth being used by only a small minority of parents.

Millions of American don't think its getting worse, only a small minority of people and they were probably disgruntled to begin with, such as yourself.

However, overall it's only a small minority of JSA and UC claimants who are sanctioned and that is when they've not met their agreed commitments.»

By the 1980s there was still a large, though gradually declining, majority in favour, but only a small minority thought it more than a long term prospect.

But it also found wide support for German compensation payments to Nazi - era slave laborers and said 80 percent believe that only a small minority of Germans are anti-Semitic (source)

Private and selective schools educate only a small minority of our children: there are only 164 selective state schools, and less than 7 % of the UK's children go to private schools.

A possible connection between smoking pot and schizophrenia is fairly well known, but the link is controversial and it affects only a small minority of users.

There are by now only a small minority of physicists who think Einstein was right to reject quantum theory as the foundation of our scientific description of nature.

Senior author Dr Abraham Reichenberg, Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and with King's IoPPN said: «It is important to bear in mind that many children will experience some difficulties with schoolwork or other intellectual tasks at some point in their lives, and only a small minority will go on to develop a psychotic disorder.»

It is particularly significant to note that still only a small minority of 16 - year - olds seek professional help when experiencing serious emotional health problems.

But James Groves, general secretary of the National Postgraduate Committee (NPC), believes that those postgraduates who actually give voice to their concerns represent only a small minority of the aggrieved students.

Fortunately, only a small minority of the 840 photographs chosen to illustrate this guide are misleading, suggesting that the picture researcher (drawing largely on the National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife at the Australian Museum) has done a pretty good job.

Changes in the SHANK3 gene have been implicated in only a small minority (about.5 to 2 %) of people with autism.

Type ones receive no help at all from the medical profession because all they are interested in is type 2, type one confuses them, we are only a small minority in comparison, therefore, we do not matter!!!

Researchers at Wake Forest University have found that medical schools simply do not provide obesity education to their students, and only a small minority of major medical centers even provide adequate, effective training to students in caring for obese patients.

Alongside dozens of the more obvious international labels at the multi-brand boutique, like Valentino, Chloé, Céline, only a small minority of three — Alexander Terekhov, Vika Gazinskaya and Walk of Shame — are Russian.

Contrary to common assumptions, only a small minority of conservative Christians take the stance that Christian kids should be in Christian schools as a matter of principle.

Only a small minority of American blacks are Catholic, but black parents were sending their children to Catholic schools, despite tuition fees and instruction in a religion the parents did not themselves follow.

Particularly, critics of the law argued that the government of Sarkozy wanted to attract far - right voters and supported that only a small minority of Muslims in France wear the Islamic headscarf (Murray, 2012).

But in reality, only a small minority of workers actually reach this level of wealth.

While there has been a gradual increase in the number of school - based health clinics, which provide preventive and remedial care and even crisis interventions, clinics serve only a small minority of students, and few states and districts have policies in place to help them scale up and become sustainable.

While the number of school - based health clinics has gradually increased, they still provide only a small minority of students remedial and preventive care.

When present - day critics refer to what they assume was a better past, they look back to a time when a large proportion of American youths did not complete high school and only a small minority completed four years of college.

Stepping up may be an option for only a small minority of the labor force.

Chances are, only a small minority of corporate eLearning tools will be locally hosted or installed.

Moreover, the proportion of academy chains returning above average levels of attainment for disadvantaged students in sponsored secondary academies has fallen since 2013 with only a small minority of chains showing steady improvement.

The one area where one might imagine learning to be most impacted by technology students acquiring information, analyzing ideas, and demonstrating and communicating content understanding in secondary school science, social studies, mathematics, and other academic work involves computers significantly in only a small minority of secondary school academic classes.

The strong presence of books - born - as - preorders in our bestseller lists is especially significant considering that only a small minority of books (13.5 %) originated as preorders.

Slave owners comprised only a small minority of the white population; in 1860 there were around 350,000 slave owners, that is, about 1.3 per cent of the country's whites.

Portfolio Strategies Optimizing Your Retirement Income: What Works Best and Why Only a small minority of Baby Boomers are accumulating enough savings to provide for their income needs.

Only a small minority however, are willing to feed their dogs with the same frequency as their wild ancestors.

Only the small minority of very high spenders who purchase premium cabin tickets come out ahead on this...

Even if one argues that these problems have been overblown by the media and that only a small minority of player's are being seriously affected, that's still pitiful in this day and age.