Sentences with phrase «over minorities in»

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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.

If you are a woman and / or racial minority, chances are you have been interrupted or talked over by a colleague in a meeting (a circumstance often referred to as «mansplaining.»)

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.

The MP for Richmond Park hasn't been able to win over the black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) vote either, and this is a problem given that this social group is on the rise in the capital.

In an opinion published on Thursday, Delaware Chancellor Andre G. Bouchard ruled that the social network's minority shareholders are entitled to their day in court over the salaries that Facebook's directors receiveIn an opinion published on Thursday, Delaware Chancellor Andre G. Bouchard ruled that the social network's minority shareholders are entitled to their day in court over the salaries that Facebook's directors receivein court over the salaries that Facebook's directors received.

Jews in other words are in a definite retailing minority over the country.

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.

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.

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.

His anger seems only to have grown over the months, as he posted threatening messages on social media and participated in online rants against minorities.

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

Uber also has committed $ 3 million over the next three years to support organizations focused on underrepresented minorities and women in tech.

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.

Against this backdrop, activist investment firm JCP Investment Management took up a significant minority stake in Fiesta over the past year, and JCP is now spearheading a shareholder group that is pushing for a boardroom shakeup.

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.

For example, Verizon (VZ) has over $ 130 billion in minority interest ownership, mostly due to its partnership with Vodafone (VOD), which owns a 45 % stake in VZ's wireless communication business.

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.

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:

As soon as the election is over, those who have won the majority undertake to act according to their speech, while the minority, abstaining from action, must satisfy itself with talk in order to prepare for the next election.

Black men were also found to be over three times more likely to be arrested than white men, and in prisons black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) males are almost five times more likely to be housed in high security for public order offences than white men.

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

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.»

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 authoritIn 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 authoritin 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.

Sadly our culture has been destroyed by the French government over the years, as was the case for every European ethnic minority in the French territory.

Faiez's family left their home in Mosul when extremist Islamic group IS took over the city, giving Christians and other minorities a chilling ultimatum: convert, leave, or die by the sword.

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.

In December 2005, Venezuelan firebrand President Hugo Chávez castigated «some minorities, the descendants of the same ones who crucified Christ, [who] have taken over the wealth of the world.»

AsiaNews now reports that a new commission set up by the country's interim government will «establish a cemetery for the country's Christian and Kirati minorities... Over the next four months, the commission will scout for possible sites in each of the country's 75 districts and have them identified by July 15.»

The Washington Post: Hindus from Pakistan flee to India, citing religious persecution More than 250 Pakistani Hindus have arrived in India over the past two weeks bearing tales of religious persecution, according to Indian border officials, fueling perceptions of growing discrimination against minorities in Pakistan.

The Christian minority has long been enmeshed in an ongoing debate over burial rituals.

They also see the challenge of democratic inclusivity in China as the need to address the problem of Han chauvinism (which they term «Oriental orientalism») that lauds Han superiority over the national minorities.

In a short time the church attracted and converted over 80,000 members from the nearby minority tribes.

As far as trusting their own kind over another, you'll find that in every minority in every society in the world.

Ministers were warned during a debate in Parliament this week over a host of countries and minorities affected by persecution.

If the Muslim Brotherhood are in the minority... how could they «take over» unless people were afraid to get out and vote... and if that is the case... what are they afraid of....

He has observed that the marginalization of women, racial / ethnic / minorities, Dalits, the poor, children, elderly and the sick, in short the majority of the people the world over, has escalated with the spread of the forces of globalization.

Usually they're so good at evangelizing (aka exploiting) when it comes to minorities, professing unconditional love, but come the day when their faith is tested the need to be «right», to be in control prevails and they assume godly authority over their fellow men.

While over half of the world's nations have abolished capital punishment, and while international criticism of the U.S. has been intense, America continues to condemn the poor and racial minorities (particularly those who kill whites) in disproportionate numbers, as well as the mentally ill, the mentally retarded, juveniles (here the U.S. leads the world) and sometimes the innocent — and all this to no apparent deterrent effect.

You will condemn the violent jihadists now, while you are a small minority in the country of your residence, but when your numbers get large enough, and you see a possible tipping over to Sharia law over constitutional law, what will you be saying then?