Sentences with phrase «small minority population»

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.

I just started working on my Ph.D. in engineering in a town with a very small minority population, and I feel extremely isolated and alone.

But auditors — and Children's Centre staff themselves — felt they needed to do more to identify and provide outreach services to families with high levels of need, and the NAO found that «less progress was being made in improving services for fathers, parents of children with disabilities, and for ethnic minorities in areas with smaller minority populations».

Even with these small minority populations, the conflict generated in these cities over efforts to move students to achieve economic balance in the schools was considerable.

Not exact matches

Detroit also has the fourth - largest number of minority - owned small businesses among American cities, though it ranks only 23rd by population.

man people are so stupid and ignorant these days, maybe a minority of Muslims who act violently make you believe that, but those guys are a very small fraction of the whole Muslim population.

So if your minority makes up 49 % of the population they will potentially never get elected unless they are clustered together in one small area.

The projects were also marked by rigid racial discrimination, with Boston's relatively small African - American population housed in separate and unequal projects in minority neighborhoods.

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.

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

This wild confusion is present in the minds of a small but financially powerful minority, though a much larger part of the population has a tendency to hold rigid ideas about the kinds of economic institutions in other nations with which we should cooperate.

LIke the tiny mormon population (loud, but still small) of 11 million (not sure if they are counting the ones they baptize AFTER they die) we're listening to the LOUD minority.

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.

Sometimes it's tough to be such a small minority (Mormons are 2 % of the population nationally; less than 1 % where I live), but it's also very freeing.

This type of homeschooling may seem like a small minority of the population, a Duggar - ish aberration from the norm.

You mentioned that maybe it's to protect the Hareidi clientele??? Just wanted to point out that in Modiin, the population is mixed, but a very small minority of Hareidi....

When they target / speak to small segments of the population like gays, minorities and immigrants they can become marginalized.

The constant repetition of that lie by a small minority of idiots among the Remain camp may have led these sick individuals to think that 52 per cent of the population quietly agreed with them.

But AFSCME, the state's largest AFL - CIO union, said Malloy can not expect «a small minority of the population to resolve Connecticut's fiscal challenges.»

The researchers, who reported their findings online in Small Business Economics, also found that counties with larger minority population tended to grow more slowly over the period they studied — from 2000 to 2007.

«However, restricting the investigation to a small minority of the deaf population means the results can't be applied to all deaf people.»

Repairing IR1 improves EBNA - LP levels and the quality of transformation by the B95 - 8 BAC.IMPORTANCE Epstein - Barr virus (EBV) infects the majority of the world population, but only causes illness in a small minority.

However, this will only make up a very small minority of the population and most typical lifters will fall somewhere within that 20 - 40 pound range.

When you start interracial dating, that takes you into being an even smaller minority of our small population.

There had, indeed, been earlier signals: evidence of weak achievement by the country's small but growing immigrant and minority populations, as well as boys lagging way behind girls.

In sum, the sources cited above suggest that significant levels of nonparticipation were restricted in 2015 to a minority of states and, except for New York, Colorado, and Rhode Island, to relatively small subsets of their eligible test - taking populations.

Before the second world war, a very small minority of the population in Western societies went to universities.

While many believe that gifted LGBTQ students are a small minority of the overall school population, according to an emerging body of research (Friedrichs, 1997; Treat, 2008), the population of gay, lesbian, and bisexual students may be much higher than previously realized.

However, these changes only effected a small minority of the population - primarily the wealthy and powerful.

Slave owners comprised only a small minority of the white population; in 1860 there were around 350,000 slave owners, that is, about 1.3 per cent of the country's whites.

However, such conversions would be beneficial only to a small minority of the investor population, and conversions require years to break - even on the taxes paid at the outset.

Juicy Excerpt: Taleb writes: «It suffices for an intransigent minority — a certain type of intransigent minorities — to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to submit to their preferences.

Sadly, a small minority of breeders do a really good job of it, which contributes significantly to the population of under - socialized dogs in our world.

Hardcore deniers are less than 10 % of the population; those active on blogs like this one are an even smaller minority.

-- a small minority of the population ARE sociopaths, and the rest of us ARE N'T.

By contrast, the number of utterly ignorant bloggers, blog commenters, hack journalists and so on who regard themselves as being better qualified than the experts is just about beyond counting (though still, fortunately, a small minority of the population as a whole).

The visible minority population was relatively small — four per cent of the total population — with black, Arab and Chinese people making up the three largest communities within this group.

Investigators have used it as the criterion for diagnosis of behavior disturbance against which to gauge the validity of both screening instruments27 and psychological interview measures.28 The published Spanish version of the CBCL used in this study has been found to have good internal consistency and concurrent validity in Spanish - speaking populations.29 The CBCL was chosen as the standard of comparison to avoid basing the calculation of PSC validity on a small subset of the data as done in previous studies using structured interviews as the standard24,30 - 32 and because the CBCL has been widely used as the criterion standard in previous PSC research in both middle - class30, 33 - 35 and low - income minority populations.8

Broad demographic studies of the flexible and ill - defined «fatherless homes» populations, which indicate complex and multi-causated reasons for the (actually small) negative outcomes suffered by a minority of children in these «single mother home» groups are twisted, baselessly, into the political rhetoric that children «need» or «benefit» from having two parents.

While Muslims have been in Australia since before white «Christian» settlement, and although they are the third largest religious group (after Christians and Buddhists), comprising 2.1 per cent of the population, they remain a very small minority against whom high levels of negativity exist.

Until recently, the majority of RCTs have been conducted with middle class Caucasian adolescents, with a smaller percentage including ethnic minorities who reside in impoverished populations in the Western world.

The study sample was found to be representative of the general population of the United Kingdom at the start of data collection, except for a smaller proportion of mothers from ethnic minorities compared to the study location (4.1 % vs. 7.6 %), a higher proportion of married or cohabiting mothers, and a greater number of owner - occupier families (Boyd et al. 2013).