Sentences with phrase «over a minority of»

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In 2011, most state and federal prisoners were minorities — black and Hispanic prisoners alone accounted for over 60 percent of total prisoners, far greater than their share of the total U.S. population, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Generally, an entrepreneur can not own 50 percent or more of the business that his or her IRA is invested in, unless the company has a minority shareholder with complete veto power over all transactions — but in some cases, even that won't be allowed.

One obstacle in Spotify's negotiations is over the share of revenue the service has to pass on record companies — some of which also own minority stakes in Spotify — and their musical acts.

It is true that the US did not persecute the Jews - or at least, as one Nazi lawyer remarked in 1936, it had not persecuted the Jews «so far» - but it had created a host of forms of second - class citizenship for other minority groups, including Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans and Native Americans, scattered all over the Union and its colonies.

What's more, his polarizing lack of political correctness can also work against him among women and minority businesspeople, leaving the door open to his rival Clinton, whose small business platform and reputation for getting the job done may very well win over undecided voters.

But looking back over Flaherty's six budgets, it is increasingly clear that he doesn't have much of a clue what he would do with the federal treasury if he were freed from the political constraints of a minority parliament.

It's a view held by a large minority of CEOs, despite the fact they remain divided on whether the recession is over.

The program has been an important one for thousands of minority entrepreneurs over the past few years.

Although several companies have launched the following four strategies over the last several years, they're still a minority and few of them are doing all four:

For Big Food makers like Tyson, a minority stake is a way to see how a brand like Beyond Meat — which is already available in over 11,000 stores — develops without making too big of a financial commitment.

Swiss Re said on Wednesday that talks with SoftBank over a minority stake of no more than 10 percent in the reinsurance giant were continuing and «at an early stage».

After one of those briefings, Senate minority leader Harry Reid wrote FBI Director James Comey, citing reports of meetings between a Trump adviser (a reference to Page) and «high ranking sanctioned individuals» in Moscow over the summer as evidence of «significant and disturbing ties» between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin that needed to be investigated by the bureau.

The New York Fed named Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco chief John Williams as its next president, touting his monetary - policy expertise despite criticism over his supervision of Wells Fargo and calls for a woman or minority candidate to fill the post.

Flipkart's valuation by some of its minority investors over the past one year has ranged from $ 5.57 billion to $ 10 billion.

However, when the substantial majority of over 60 per cent gets split among four other competing parties, the Conservatives — with a minority of the vote — could wind up forming the government.

As the chart above illustrates, there is an interesting correlation between the seat - advantage a minority government holds over the official Opposition, and the length of time between general elections when the minority is in power.

To sum up, the six general elections considered here ended with minority governments, and those minorities all enjoyed a relatively small advantage in the number of seats — ranging from two to 22 — over the official Opposition.

(Merely as a point of interest, consider that the average seat - advantage these six minorities held over their official Opposition was roughly 14, while the average number of months from their initial election victory to the next tilt was about 15.)

It seems evident that minority governments with a comparatively narrow seat - advantage over the official Opposition usually stay in power for relatively brief periods of time.

Just over 28 % of woman and minority - owned firms in the private equity market in 2017 targeted buyout investments, the largest segment of the broader private equity universe regarding the number of firms and dollars invested.

And we need visible minority employees to take greater advantage of these opportunities so that they have more power over their own career development.

The four - day event brought together over 6,000 minority suppliers and representatives from some of America's largest corporations.

Over the past 16 years W Capital has pioneered this approach to minority investing, building an incredible portfolio, team and culture that I'm fortunate to be part of.»

This is the latest of Uber's legal issues over how it treats its workers, in particular minorities.

Despite a growing number of initiatives such as Bitcoin Women's Day, women using bitcoin are still a minority, with over 90 % of bitcoin users in our survey identifying as male.

Catalyzing the community, Startup Runway is a grassroots effort creating significant gains for women and minority startups by leveraging capital along with an active pool of over 100 mentors.

The number of people of color appointed as directors fell in 2016 and the overall rate of minorities serving on boards has been mostly unchanged over the last decade, according to executive recruiter Spencer Stuart.

- Majority voting policies provide minority shareholders with greater influence over the composition of the board of directors, who are their key representatives.

Majority voting policies provide minority shareholders with greater influence over the composition of the board of directors, who are their key representatives.

Just over 27 % of woman and minority - owned firms in the market in the first half of 2017 targeted buyout investments, the largest segment of the broader private equity universe in terms of the number of firms and dollars invested.

-- the current price at 12,35 EUR is ~ 1/3 lower than the expired take - over offer from Deutsche Annington 6 weeks ago — although the share will be delisted by the end of the year, I do believe that a squeeze - out under Luxembourg law is very likely within the next 12 - 18 months close to the initial offer price (~ 50 % upside from current price)-- the downside is that following November, the stock will be unlisted and hard to sell and that for some reason the Acquirer Deutsche Annington will not squeeze out the remaining minorities

Ranjan said on the issue of Tata Capitals minority stake: «The first round of discussions has happened over it.

Like the Roman Catholic church, who promote morality over altar boys... It's pretty much there already, out of 1.6 billion Muslims, the problems we've had is obviously a minority.

But, Prodromou notes, there hasn't been any appreciable improvement of the situation for Orthodox Christians (and other religious minorities) in Turkey over the last year:

But when the gov» t took over GM and Chrysler part of their demand was that «minority» companies had 1st call on bids.

M. Kelly is correct... Santa and Jesus are white... it is getting absolutely ridiculous to try and ruin everything because a minority of people are not happy... too bad... that's life... get over it... I am not afraid of these people who try and make me do what they want by saying I am a bigot or whatever... I am just a realist.

Fifty - five percent of public school students are in schools in which over 90 percent of all students are white or minority.

His followers are doing pretty good job of eliminating minorities by forcing them to leave their country or be converted to Islam, but you know what, those days of Koranic abuse are over, people are hitting back at s. a. v. a g e s from air, governments around the world are not hesitant to call them terrorists and killing them any place they find.

The founding fallacy in the new church was a «defective ecclesiology» that provided for governance by a lay majority, dominated under a quota system by minorities and feminists, in which theologians were marginalized and issues of race and gender took precedence over traditional ecclesial and confessional concerns.

This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

To avoid majority religious views from being favored by the state over the views of the many minority religions.

In February, the archbishop of Perugia, speaking for the Italian Roman Catholic bishops, apologized to Italy's Protestants for the «suffering and injury» inflicted on the country's Protestant minority over the centuries.

The country has long been considered a model of tolerance, but religious tensions in the past few years — including the demolition of 20 churches, protests over attacks on Christians by Islamist extremists, and a law requiring minority religious groups to collect signatures from local majority groups before building churches — highlight the country's increasing struggles to maintain harmony between its religious groups.

In a true democracy, a doctrine of pluralism may be a way of safeguarding the rights of minorities; in a hierarchy, however, where authority proceeds from a Will not constituted by any part of the population, «pluralism» is often a code word for the project of giving political power the ascendancy over legitimate authority.

The provenance of some of this concern is perhaps unsurprising given that the crowds who came (over 6000 to the Oxford Oratory, for instance) included a minority of Senior Citizens, who might possibly remember the cult of relics from their youth, but was mainly made up by the young and middle - aged.

I think a majority of Evangelicals are with it, but that large minority needs to get over their fears of Mormons.

The report did not allege that the government of Pakistan supported discrimination, but it speculated that «the government's reticence in looking into incidents involving discrimination against minorities is a reflection of its fear of offending fundamentalist Muslims who wield substantial influence over their co-religionists.»

He told Premier: «Some Pakistani government ministers and court lawyers have tried to deal with this [persecution in Pakistan] but actually one or two of them have been executed over the years, just because they stood up for a minority, i.e. for the Christians there.

The ironic and indirect ways of affirming and denying — God bless the Czar and keep him far, far away — modes of speaking that are so important for Jewish humanism, are found in Yiddish, a plastic language that hung like a long suspension bridge over the chasm that separated the world of an isolated, vulnerable religious minority from the dangerous Gentile - dominated majority culture.

There are smaller steps that could be taken to accomodate the prayer needs of those students rather than rescheduling a whole school system over the needs of a small minority.