Sentences with phrase «small minority at»

While many cases settle at around more or less equal shares, there are a number which settle at around 55/45 %, some at 60/40 % and a very small minority at ratios in excess of that.

Those who fail to understand this difference must surely be in the minority (and a small minority at that).

Not exact matches

Absent such a standard, the shareholder proposal rule becomes nothing less than a species of private eminent domain by which the federal government allows a small minority to appropriate someone else's property — the company is a legal person, after all, and it is the company's proxy statement at issue — for use as a soap - box to disseminate their views.

Establish a robust local vendor contracting program that ensures particularly local small minority - and women - owned businesses are able to benefit from contracting opportunities at HQ2.

The purpose of this website is to consider a better way of investing — from basic overall strategy to looking at the minority of (mostly) small, independent money managers who appear to actually give a damn about their clients.

PNC's Supplier Diversity Program seeks to develop relationships with business enterprises that are at least 51 % owned, operated and controlled by minorities, women, LGBT, people with disability and small business enterprises.

CNN iReport: Mormon Democrats gather at DNC, push back on Mormon GOP image Democrats make up only 7 percent of Utah's Mormon community, but the small minority came out in full force Tuesday night at an LDS Democrats event in Charlotte, N.C..

By God's grace, a very small minority then began to realize what Jesus had accomplished, and they spread the Truth at great risk to their earthly lives.

Profit for capital is guaranteed at the price of stagnation and growing inequality among the small minorities.

When I used to attend (evangelical christian) church there was always a vocal strain of folks who wanted to think they were persecuted, they told made - up stories about christians being persecuted in various parts of the world (at the time a lot of them were set in the U.S.S.R.)... it was so obvious that they LOVED thinking of themselves as some small group of martyrs, that they NEEDED to imagine themselves to be a persecuted minority... holding on to some secret truth that the rest of the world had turned its back on.

At the same time, I acknowledge that we can not tell whether he would have been willing to side with a small intellectual minority against the dominant thinking of the time.

A one in ten minority in society and an even smaller minority in the church (for obvious reasons) and an even smaller minority of ministers (as we are generally denied ministry positions) means that straight people will have to come around at some point before things really improve.

Some young people — an increasingly small minority — arrive at college with extensive knowledge of the Bible.

They are a small but important minority who can not tolerate having their human needs for food, shelter, work, and companionship satisfied unless they can at the same time be mutinously hostile at the personal or institutional provider.

They are heroes that stand out, and are always an extremely small minority of the population at large.

My personal opinion at this time is that nothing much will come from THIS movement except a fair amount of new awareness (who besides a small minority thought or more importantly discussed their thoughts about the 99 % before all this?..)

With the exception of a very small minority of Roman Catholics, they were Protestant by background, but at the mid-eighteenth century probably only about five out of a hundred were church members.

At the outset of the century some independent small Presbyterian and other Protestant bodies existed, and Episcopalians constituted an influential minority.

«There's been self radicalization going on within the Muslim community, within a very small minority, but it's there and that's where the threat is coming from at this time.»

The real content of the programme of these gentlemen (and some ladies) is undeniable because at its base it guarantees maximum profit for capital, at the price of stagnation and growing inequality between the small minorities benefiting from the system and all the working classes, and between the nations of the triad and all the rest.

If not then Wenger may well feel that it is a small and vocal minority calling for him to leave or be sacked and so a lack of clarity could see us stuck with him for at least one more season and if we have not made our feelings clear then we could hardly complain too much could we?

I was at West Brom and trust me out of the thousand of us, only a very small minority were applauding that banner.

A small minority of Arsenal fans protested on 12 and 78 minutes of the Saturday Night Football clash against Norwich at the Emirates as Danny Welbeck scored the only goal of the game.

At the same time, the small minority who aren't interested are not challenged, and are simply allowed to drift away from their obligations.

But at the same time, what I say at the end of the book is the programs I talk about are really small and represent just a small minority of the kinds of experiences kids — and especially low - income kids — are having in American schools today.

If you are at the beginning, know that chances are, you will eventually fall in love with breastfeeding (a small minority of women never enjoy breastfeeding, but most do).

At any rate, not that I would ever stop night - nursing my baby simply because other people might think me strange for continuing to do this, but I'm curious if more women are like me and choose to do this — or if I really am in an extremely small minority of women who plan to let all aspects of breastfeeding take their natural course with their little ones, including night feedings for as long as my son desires.

At 1 p.m., de Blasio will attend the Rainbow PUSH Coalition's 21st Annual Wall Street Project Economic Summit, where he will make an announcement on minority and women owned business enterprises and small businesses, Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, 811 Seventh Ave., Manhattan.

«Despite significant progress over the last few years, the volume of business won by ethnic minority owned businesses in the UK remains small,» said Sara Todd, chair of Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) and executive director at Merck Sharp & Dohmminority owned businesses in the UK remains small,» said Sara Todd, chair of Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) and executive director at Merck Sharp & DohmMinority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) and executive director at Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD).

Cuomo complains that this would somehow hurt minority - run small businesses — a lame claim plainly aimed at swaying the Assembly to balk at the reform.

Speaking at a media conference after the national executive meeting, he said: «It is clear that a small minority who didn't accept my election as leader of the Scottish Labour Party just five months ago won't accept the vote of the executive today and that will continue to divide the party.

I did not recognise, at the point that this visit was arranged, a need to disclose to my officials and the High Commission that Abid Hussain and I have a common business interest as minority shareholders in a small food company... I sincerely regret that I did not consider the significance of this relationship with Mr Hussain when the arrangements for the visit were being made... I am sorry.

Yes, the «small — yet vocal — minority» understates the depth of feelings, at least in WNY.

«Previously, almost all neuroscience Ph.D. students at Karolinska were recruited from classes of students studying to become M.D.s,» says Olsen «but in the last 10 — 15 years this has changed so that now a small minority of the students we accept for our Ph.D. program are derived from the M.D. curriculum classes.»

Current standards for ultrasound evaluation of fetal growth may lead to misclassification of up to 15 percent of fetuses of minority mothers as being too small, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other institutions.

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.»

There is a small minority, including people like Gene Koprowski, marketing director at the Heartland Institute, which has consistently produced research challenging the science behind climate change, who have called into question the pope's wisdom in taking up the issue, even suggesting that he was inspired by «pagan remnants.»

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.

Priority will be given to members of historically underrepresented groups, such as scientists at small colleges, minorities, non-traditional students, and veterans, among others.

These studies, while illuminating, look at celiac disease only, which accounts for a small minority of people with a gluten intolerance.

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.

For example, it's not as easy to meet potential romantic partners at work or in the supermarket when you live in an area with a small minority population.

What a small but growing minority of Friday night moviegoers is beginning to discover is that there's a good chance the movie they might enjoy most at the multiplex is a doc.

Take a trifecta of movies about affluent Connecticut: Ang Lee's The Ice Storm looks back at how a souring of American innocence in the 1970s found its way into affluent suburbia, Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows explores the small town classism of the 1950s as it was happening, and Todd Haynes» Far From Heaven casts its eyes on the same period to illustrate the obstacles minorities and the LGBT community faced.

The higher the threshold — say, requiring a subgroup to represent at least 15 percent of the student body, as opposed to 5 or 10 percent — the lower the failure rate will be for schools with small percentages of disadvantaged minority students.

The opening of a charter school leads to small reductions in enrollment at nearby district schools, but does not change the percentage of students from underrepresented minority groups, special education students, or LEP students.

The same was true for those who scored at the top of the distribution in one year: A small minority stayed in the same rating band the following year, while most scores moved to other parts of the distribution.

A small minority of people seem to take some kind of gidy joy at the prospect of stopping people who are passionate about driving from driving their cars.