Sentences with phrase «race is in the minority»

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Why this should be so — why the success of the Jewish minority should be so particularly resented by other peoples — is a complicated question which is rendered more complicated by the fact that anthropologists are now generally agreed that the Jews are not a race in any scientific sense of the term — no more of a race, for example, than the Germans.

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.

At the September 1933 World YMCA conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, Bonhoeffer warned of the «growing persecution of minorities» in Nazi Germany and successfully influenced the delegates to pass a strongly worded resolution condemning the violence against Jews: «We especially deplore the fact that the State measures against the Jews in Germany have had such an effect on public opinion that in some circles the Jewish race is considered a race of inferior status.»

have you purposefully moved to a culture unlike your place of birth where your race is drastically a minority in order to care for the highly contagious sick & dying of that other race & culture?

He was, it seems, acknowledging a social truth about race in America during the 1950s, namely that racial minorities did not matter much to the goings - on of mainstream society.

The brunt of the responsibility rests on those who are the aggressors, however, there exists in every race a group of ignorants that add fuel to the racist fire by either being racists themselves and / or perpetuating stereotypes that add to the racism despite these groups often being a minority within the larger race.

No oppressed minority group is going to join with the majority in a common fight for justice while the latter insists on ignoring racism in its own group, or in exhorting the minority to regard the race problem as secondary to class analysis.

If a minority race / religion were in control in America today a politician could use that to get elected too.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

Since much of the military was recruited from certain races outside the domain of Islam and the main body of the Muslim people made up the nonmilitary class — especially in the Arab countries — we can easily see how the Islamic society came to be made up of a minority of war - lords and a majority of mere subjects.

He recognises that by achieving his F1 race seat without a manager or a crap - tonne of cash, his rise is in the minority and should provide a source of inspiration for other up - and - coming drivers ready to battle it out in lower formulae.

The children we observed tended to be of higher socioeconomic status and were less likely to be of minority race / ethnicity than the children we did not follow up, which could have led to overestimates if the effect of breastfeeding on cognition was much weaker or in the opposite direction in those who dropped out, situations we find unlikely.

Shortly after Carl Paladino handily won the Republican nomination in the race for governor Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos congratulated Paladino and welcomed him to the general election fight — and Senate Democrats were quick to pounce.

Interestingly, the only non-ethnic in the race who doesn't also have minority children, Jim Gilmore, is unambiguously in last place for the Republican Party, the party with the most «white» support.

Spano's brother Nick was ousted in a closely watched race by the now - Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

Former Assembly Minority Leader John Faso, who lost the 2006 governor's race to Democrat Eliot Spitzer, is sounding the alarm in a letter to fellow Republicans, urging them to unite behind the GOP gubernatorial designee, Rick Lazio, or risk «a re-run» of what happened four years ago.

He is competing for the party's official designation against Sen. John DeFrancisco, a Syracuse state lawmaker who entered the race in February and appeared to be the frontrunner after Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb ended his campaign.

After Molinaro said he wasn't running in January, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb of Canandaigua dropped out of the race last month.

DeFrancisco is among three Republicans now in the race, joining Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R - Canandaigua) and former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra.

Former Senate Minority Leader Marty Connor, who is part of the team of election attorneys handling the recount fight for the Democrats in the Thompson race, said the whole mess could take weeks — or maybe even months — which means there might be empty seats in the chamber when the Legislature returns to Albany in early January.

In an interview Thursday with USA Today, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said «there's a great deal of excitement» about a potential Clinton candidacy, adding that she personally hopes Clinton enters the race.

CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — New York State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R — Canandaigua) today announced he is withdrawing from the race for New York governor, less than two months after throwing his hat in the ring.

Minority voters could be the difference in what has become a very close race, and Spitzer has carefully targeted his get - out - the - vote efforts to turn out voters most likely to support him.

In 2006, DiNapoli was a candidate for lieutenant governor, but dropped out of the race after Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the party's frontrunner for governor, chose Senate Minority Leader David Paterson as his running mate.

If a poll is going to ask about race relations in our City, then it should be more inclusive of minority voters.

Former Assembly Minority Leader and 2006 gubernatorial candidate John Faso and Dutchess County businessman Andrew Heaney have been in the race since the end of the summer.

Lewis wouldn't speculate about endorsing a candidate in next year's race, but she has been working on minority - hiring issues with city Comptroller Scott Stringer, considered a potential mayoral challenger.

The Democrats are currently in the minority in the State Senate, but many observers believe they will ride the slipstream of the presidential race into the majority in the November elections.

The issue of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which has become a focus in the race — particularly since Owens is running an ad claiming he votes 63 percent of the time with House Minority Leader John Boehner — appears to be a live one for Republicans.

Florida Politics reported last week that Cruz had spoken to Democratic leaders about making a run in SD 18 and was received positively — Minority Leader Oscar Braynon said he'd been supportive of Cruz entering the race since Democrats flipped SD 40 with the election of Annette Taddeo late last year.

A Republican media consultant, Howell has been involved in some of the most high - profile (and nasty) Senate races in recent memory, including Sen. Saxby Chambliss's (R) 2002 defeat of Max Cleland (D) in Georgia and Sen. John Thune's (R) 2004 victory over Minority Leader Tom Daschle in South Dakota.

We've had race equality laws in Britain for five decades yet there is still racism, so minority communities can't afford to assume that equal rights will solve all their problems.

Broken down by gender, religion and race: women are 53 percent of the gubernatorial electorate, white Catholics are at a 33 - 35 percent share, Jewish voters cast a 12 - 13 percent of the total vote, with minority voters (the aggregate of black, Hispanic, Asian and bi-racial New Yorkers) at between a 27 - 30 percent share in gubernatorial elections.

Clarke is significant as well because Schneiderman is trying to lock up support of minority voting blocs since there are no candidates of color in the AG's race — a fact that has spurred NYC Councilman Charles Barron to run as a protest candidate for governor.

Strange, though, that The Fix's sources mention Coleman, who's already lost that race once, while ignoring ostensible front - runner Marty Seifert, who's in the news today for vowing to not run for reelection to the Lege (where he's currently minority leader), whether he wins his party's gubernatorial nomination or not.

Asked about the traditionally poor turnout of voters in the heavily - minority Fillmore District, Mascia says voters are turned off by nothing being done and says he will run a get - out - the vote campaign for his issues on race, class and economic inequities.

He proposes to create a statewide reconciliation commission to address police / community relations; recruit more minorities into law enforcement; make publicly available race and ethnic data on police actions; buy replacement vests, body cameras and bullet - proof glass for patrol cars in high crime areas; appoint an independent monitor to review police cases where an unarmed civilian dies and the case is not presented to the grand jury, or the grand jury fails to indict.

Less than a month after entering the race for Tampa's Senate District 18, House Minority Leader Janet Cruz is making a splash, with $ 271K raised in total.

It was no surprise that state House Minority Leader John Bel Edwards finished first, with 40 percent, considering he was the only legitimate Democratic candidate in the race.

Those folks seemed more realistic about their prospects from the start, possibly because House races are more susceptible to a partisan wave and the party was already in the minority.

Here is one from technology executive Steve Daines (R) in his race against state Senate Minority Whip Kim Gillan (D).

At the moment, the only declared Republicans in the race are Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb and ex-Erie County Executive Joel Giambra.

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb on Monday in a radio interview said he is not worried about having less money to bring to a gubernatorial race than businessman Harry Wilson, saying experience in state government matters, too.

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb is the other declared Republican in the race; Sen. John DeFrancisco is expected to announce he is running for governor later today.

That's his consolation prize for losing what may be the shortest State Senate race since 1991, when attorney Chris Christie filed petitions to challenge Senate Minority Leader John Dorsey in the GOP primary — only to find that he didn't file enough signatures.

In Las Vegas, Biden appeared as a surrogate for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's White House bid, as well as for Democratic Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto who is locked in a closely watched race to replace retiring Minority Leader Harry ReiIn Las Vegas, Biden appeared as a surrogate for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's White House bid, as well as for Democratic Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto who is locked in a closely watched race to replace retiring Minority Leader Harry Reiin a closely watched race to replace retiring Minority Leader Harry Reid.

Republican Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb was in the race for a few months but recently dropped out.

Giambra joins state Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, R - Canandaigua, who launched his campaign last month, as the only two Republicans who have entered the race to take on Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo in November.

She can win with everything he's got,» said Joe Trippi, who faced a similar problem when he was trying to figure out the math for the 2004 campaign of Howard Dean, another Vermont liberal popular among white progressives, but one who didn't have a primary opponent with the kind of strength among African - Americans and other minority voters that Clinton's shown in 2008 and so far in this race.

John Kennedy (R - Nesconset), the current minority leader in the Suffolk County Legislature, took the race for Comptroller, a seat being vacated by incumbent Republican Joe Sawicki of Southold, who reached his term limit.