Sentences with phrase «small minority on»

Although the percentages of female junior faculty members in all of these categories are roughly double those of full professors — a promising trend — women remain a small minority on science and engineering faculties.

I was the only female aviator in my squadron and one of a small minority on my ship.

Thus, I, among a small minority on here, insist on citing these advanced metrics to prove how crucial Benzema is, despite his obvious decline in finishing and overall ability for instance.

Cut off for several months from his lecture course, which was now being given by someone else, he was already in less of a central position, an ex-member of a deputation that had failed in its object, and now in a small minority on a matter of policy.

Not exact matches

While there is a vocal minority who want gun laws in the U.K. relaxed, they do appear to be very small — all the mainstream political parties support strict gun laws, and much of the debate centers on whether the U.K., which already has some of the strictest gun laws in the entire world, needs more control.

Major is in the small minority, with others including Komal Sri - Kumar, president of Sri - Kumar Global Strategies, who wrote on Business Insider earlier this week that the 10 - year yield would slide below 2 % to 1.5 %.

On Monday, JPMorgan Chase announced $ 2.2 million to support underserved and minority - owned businesses throughout the U.S. as part of the firm's three - year commitment from its Small Business Forward initiative.

Professional investors take on dozens or even hundreds of projects, accepting that many will fail but also strategizing that a small minority will turn out to be outsize winners.

Start Small is a charity focused on underserved communities, and its first focus will be Ferguson, Missouri — now infamous for the racial unrest that followed the fatal shooting of Michael Brown and a long pattern of prejudicial police treatment of minorities — and is located outside Dorsey's hometown of St. Louis, Missouri.

A fund that started out as an experimental bet on minority - owned small businesses in Detroit is about to get almost three times as big.

Sure some people make money on tax liens, but it's the small minority and not an investment suited for someone who doesn't first have tens of thousands of dollars invested.

Participate in The Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County's procurement practices through its Small / Local / Minority / Women Business Enterprise Stakeholder Group Meetings to review and comment on the SWA's Disparity Study findings and recommendations and feedback on policy options.

The private sector will never raise salaries on their own, the natural state of unregulated capitalism is negotiated monopolies with massive serf labor pools and a small minority of owner - lords.

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..

So, are you assuming that the small minority of polygamist families are «all» on some kind of welfare..?

I do believe that there is a small (I'd love to see more data on this one too) minority who are born witch certain chromosome defects / disorders that will in fact dispose them towards homosexuality.

It's powerful how outlawed we can feel - the small minority who have sought God on the matter - and who will only do as HE says, not as a» church fellowship» demands.

Unfortunately, while some sad creatures continue to focus on a small minority religion in our country (maybe 10 million tops, depending on the study) while a crazy branch of the majority religion has decided it wants to force everyone in our same country to adhere to THEIR bizarre and restrictive beliefs.

A substantial number rejected two doctrines, somewhat fewer rejected three, and so on, with a small minority of modernists who rejected all of the traditional Christian beliefs.

Announcing the U-turn, the Department for Education said: «We want to ensure any future system of regulation that we may introduce appropriately targets the small minority of settings which may be exposing children to harmful practices, without causing undue burdens on the sector as a whole.

On the contrary it appears that not only are the New Breed a very small minority among parish ministers, but their numbers may now actually be declining.

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.

I understand your beliefs and you do not do so but you are a very small minority of the Christian cults that do try and impose their beliefs on the population as a whole.

This system, dependent on a small affluent minority using a disproportionate share of the World's natural resources, was fast depleting the base upon which it rested: nonrenewable resources.

Despotic capitalism, on the other hand, is characterized by control of the government by an individual or a relatively small group such as military junta, an aristocracy or elite class, or a minority political party.

Religion is so deep - seated a human interest that it can be snowed under but never completely stifled, and on every campus there is a nucleus of students — sometimes a good many, sometimes a small minority — who care about their faith.

So who should be the next director of Religious Life on a campus that is largely Christian with small but visible minorities of Jewish, Buddhist and Muslim students?

Concludes Matthew: «For Paul, same - sex desire did not characterize a small minority of people who were subject to special classification — and condemnation — on that basis.

In particular, it is a response to the threat against the family represented by secular society's accelerating movement towards accepting what were, only a generation ago, simply demands by a small minority of activists for the legalisation of what they insist on describing as homosexual «marriage».

Except in a few small islands in the Pacific, until 1914 the Christian communities which arose from missions from the West were small minorities, Christian enclaves in overwhelming non-Christian populations, dependent on continued infusions from Europe and America and regarded by the non-Christian neighbors as aliens, the religious phase of Western imperialism and colonialism.

The larger part of this process is carried on by the small minority of people in the developed countries, who consume by far the largest part of these and other resources.

«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.»

My own hunch is that, so far as the Reformed churches are concerned, charismatics may continue as a small minority for some time to come, but the movement's principal effect on these churches has already been felt.

Protest by fans a damp squid, its only a very small minority, if they leave there are plenty more on the waiting list for season tickets.

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.

If you read other posts on the site you will see that readers are aware that for a small minority bottle - feeding is a necessity, not a choice.

Germany imposed a 5 % threshold on its election process primarily to put a barrier in the way of efforts for small minority neo-Nazi parties to elect legislators.

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced on Long Island that she is co-sponsoring legislation designed to create more small business loans for women and minority entrepreneurs.

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.

The 40 - second video shows clips of House Minority Leader John Boehner and Illinois Republican Rep. Peter Roskam on Thursday morning touting their plan to help small businesses before flashing to coverage of the House voting to pass a $ 30 billion small business bill.

On Friday, March 9, 2018, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced that she is co-sponsoring legislation designed to create more small business loans for women and minority entrepreneurs.

The reason we haven't included Ryan on our Line is because being a member of the minority party in the House is a very small platform on which to make a national impact.

Yet he has his finger on the pulse of right - leaning residents, a small but often vociferous minority in this Democrat - dominated state.

Asked why the Brown did not accept the need for a secret ballot to take on his critics once and for all, Balls said the prime minister has «got more important things to do than be diverted by a very small minority of people who have been making difficulty time and time again over the last few days».

He said: «It is clear that the universities that recruit the vast majority of students from a small minority of society are missing out on a huge amount of talent.

There's no hard and fast rule on this, but in general, libertarians hold the rights of the minority above all else, noting that the individual is the smallest minority of them all.

How is a upstart ultra minority party going to build support when the simple act of making a choice on a candidate is going to upset half of its already small base?

The smaller parties would agree to vote for (or possibly abstain on) the Queen's Speech set out by the minority government.

Teachout says she's focused on listening to NY - 19 voters and accepting small - dollar donations, even as she will benefit from a fundraiser headlined by House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, opening herself up to criticism from the NRCC due to Hoyer's fondness for PAC cash.