Sentences with phrase «sought by minority»

Most commonly, these remedies are sought by minority shareholders when actions are taken or threatened that would unfairly hurt their interests.

Not exact matches

Oakland's decision to drive equity into the marijuana legislation assures minority ownership and seeks to compensate for discrimination against those affected by earlier laws.

Since Wall Street usually expresses its priorities by rewarding, through higher compensation, the behavior it seeks, the firms that are offering more money to women and ethnic minorities appear to be sending the message that they want to change what historically has been a white male dominated business.

The House Intelligence Committee late Saturday released a memo, drafted by the committee's minority of Democratic members and seeking to rebut a parallel memo released earlier this month by its Republican majority and chair Devin Nunes.

We seek situations characterized by large potential markets and unmet needs and invest with a flexible approach, including minority and majority stakes, through which we can provide sufficient capital to allow companies to grow over time.

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.

The city is a destination for an underground railroad operated by Mark Arabo, founder of the Minority Humanitarian Foundation, a nonprofit that seeks safe passage for Iraqi Christians fleeing ISIS.

Seek material that is authored and produced by racial and ethnic minorities.

Even before the American Revolution, «education became an instrument, deliberately used, by which dominant groups sought to recreate an ideal unity and minorities struggled to retain their group's identity.

Hindu nationalism, which is alive and well in India today, is concertedly engaged in the assignment of absorbing minorities into its ideology, Driven by the ideology of Hindutva — a term coined by V. D. Sarvarkar10 which has always advocated a comprehensive project involving the coming together of culture, society, and politics, it seeks to fuse all the distinct particularities and differences of religious minorities (Muslims and Christians) and ethnocultural minorities (Dalits and Adivasis) into its Brahmanic construction of an Indian nation.

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).

A minority — Zealots or Spirituals — sought to keep to the pattern enjoined by Francis.

They control the majority of the World's wealth and arguably are one of the most powerful blocks in the world, hardly a quality one would associate with a «minority» Perhaps the millions of non Christians who lost land or culture (not to mention millions of lives) as a result of Christian nations colonizing the World justifiably would call this headline atrocious as it simply is historically untrue if one looks at the World over the past 300 or so years and it ignores the reality of suffering brought forth by a particular religion that seeks to change all people to any one particular religion.

Though home birth is sought by only a minority of women, it is an option that is treasured and pursued tenaciously.

However, rather than seek to understand why the people of Oldham had so roundly rejected his party, Farage instead decided to suggest the result had been «bent» by ethnic minorities living in the area.

The minority will deliver to the GOP a petition signed by one - third of the Rules Committee members seeking a hearing on these bills.

Led by their leader, Honourable J. H. Mensah, the NPP Minority walked out of the House and boycotted the rest of the day's proceedings and that was the last that was heard in Parliament of «the Gwarzo affair» Nana Ato Dadzie and Kwamena Ahwoi stated that, they appreciate their time working under Rawlings and would never intentionally seek to discredit him in any way.

It is ironic that the Minority that sought to play politics with the project and embarrassed the Italian Prime Minister by claiming a collusion of fraud between ENI and the Mahama administration, are the Government today that has enjoyed the prestige of commissioning this all important project for Ghana.

«Leaders should play by the same rules as the citizens they seek to represent, and this bill simply helps New Yorkers see if their Presidential candidates pay taxes like the rest of us,» Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said.

Unless the reliefs sought by SERAP are granted, the EFCC will not investigate the Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara as well as the Deputy Speaker, Yussuff Lasun; the Minority Leader, Leo Ogor; and the Chief Whip, Hassan Ado for grave financial and economic crimes.»

Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos has made good on his pledge to seek to censure and discipline Sen. Kevin Parker in the absence of any effort to do so by Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson.

Here's quintessential Albany finger - pointing moment in which Senate Minority Leader Dean Shelos, while being grilled by reporters about whether he really is willing to risk a government shutdown, seeks to blame Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for the Capitol's dsysfunction, noting he's the longest - serving legislative leader still in office.

Osei Kyei Mensah - Bonsu says had the NDC chief scribe applied himself to the law he would have appreciated the motion filed by the minority which sought a bipartisan committee to investigate President Mahama over the Ford gate saga.

As far as it is concerned, territorial federalism can certainly ease tensions and calm down temporary crises through concessions from the majority nation to the minority nations (oftentimes temporary), but the logic inherent to the system will sooner or later lead the minority nations (which can not cease to be in a minority under territorial federalism) to ask for full national recognition, either by claiming multinational federalism or by seeking independence.

Skelos had his minority counsel's office draw up a resolution that seeks to strip Parker of his leadership post (majority whip) and its lulu ($ 12,500), which has been quietly restored to him by Sampson in recent months despite the fact that Parker's felony assault case is still pending.

On the claim by the Minority Spokesperson on Trade and Industry that sought to suggest that there was no need for the FACTORY to have been revamped because it is located in a coastal community, Mr Kwesi Dawood thanked him for that information and responded that he will bring it to the notice of coastal dwellers whiles maintaining that the new Komenda Sugar Factory is farther away from the sea than the one built by Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.

At 10 a.m., Sen. Diane Savino will hold a hearing to examine issues faced by minority and women - owned businesses seeking credit and capital.

It's not only the churches but other minority religious groups which are seeking to run schools and to be funded by the public purse to do so.

Despite the electoral setback suffered by her party, Pelosi sought to continue leading the House Democratic Caucus in the position of Minority Leader, the office she held prior to becoming Speaker.

Conservative campaigning sought to highlight what they described as the dangers of a minority Labour administration supported by the SNP.

A large section of the Tory party is sick of coalition and some Conservatives would prefer go it alone in a minority government, seeking support for votes on a case - by - case basis and daring the other parties to bring them down.

Under Quinn's leadership, the Council passed legislation that expanded the number of minority - and women - owned businesses and enterprises that can participate in city contracts, a disclosure law to clamp down on pregnancy service centers operated by anti-choice groups that trick women seeking reproductive health services and legislation that levies penalties on drivers who promote prostitution.

Insulting UKIP in this way looks like a real case of pot and kettle in membership terms, but only the tory party may be seeking to make racism a party policy by imposing candidates from ethnic minorities on constituencies.

Still, Long said anyone seeking his party's nod should attend his annual Albany conference in January, where he is anticipating appearances by other potential candidates: businessman Harry Wilson, Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb, state Sen. John DeFrancisco and Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro.

He was accused by some minority MPs of seeking to bribe them to enable him sail through his vetting with ease.

The dire consequences of voter apathy is that a minority rules since politicians seek out people who are likely to vote and policies are made by the will of this minority number of voters.

My guess is that being a minority government would actually be a net positive for Labour, relative to a tiny majority, because if Labour need to seek the support of the smaller parties on a case by case basis they can't do anything spectacularly unpopular or asinine.

But the plan would be contingent on the state Senate Democratic minority — which is upset about having been frozen out of the negotiations — providing the bulk of the votes to pass legislation pertaining to the pay raise and other issues sought by the governor, something they have been refusing to do, the source say.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is known for its scholarly involvement in fields like oceanography and the weather, but one program seeks to increase minority participation in the marine, environmental, and atmospheric sciences by offering internships and academic courses in these fields.

By aggressively seeking out minority candidates, diversity - oriented companies have learned to overcome the fact that most minority candidates are not found within traditional hiring networks.

I could also point out that someone working in academia or industry who is embittered by knowing that their choice of career was made by seeking to placate an advisor could do more to discourage other women and minorities from entering scientific careers.

Farrell (Phone Booth, Minority Report) is the real star, playing a potential leading recruit sought by the CIA for employment.

Washington — Statewide anti-busing initiatives in Washington and California were racially motivated and thus violated the equal - protection rights of minorities, the U.S. Supreme Court was told last week by lawyers seeking to have the statutes declared unconstitutional.

In their apology for the American school, David Berliner and Gene Glass seek to reassure Americans by trying to isolate the problem to minority groups or those of low income.

Amy Wilkins of the Education Trust, an advocacy group that seeks to close the achievement gap, said she is concerned that plans submitted by Indiana and Oklahoma don't do enough to hold schools accountable for educating Latino, African American and other minority children.

The board also has worked to promote academic excellence by expanding STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education; promoting computer literacy, particularly among girls and minority students; and seeking alternative disciplinary practices to reduce the disproportionate suspension and expulsion of minority students.

Liberals divided Finally, because alternative certification has been sought by racial minority groups advocating for education reform, the issue has divided political liberals into uncomfortable camps.

In this project, we seek to understand minority and female underrepresentation in advanced STEM courses in high school by investigating whether school counselors exhibit racial or gender bias during the course assignment process.

CPER - funded groups seek to improve education for all students by building the power of low - income and minority communities to influence educational policies at the local and state levels.

But a few years ago, the Fairfax school system eliminated another program, known as Quest, which sought to spark interest in TJ by taking minority students to the campus several times a month for science and math programs.