Sentences with phrase «speaking national minorities»

While other services are staffed almost exclusively from those who share the ethnic origins of the people to whom they broadcast, the Russian Service is recruited almost entirely from Russian - speaking national minorities of the Soviet Empire.»

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To claim that the lighting of a national Christmas tree each year makes this country «a Christian nation,» while its powerful systematically oppress the poor, turn away refugees, incite violence against religious and ethnic minorities, molest and harass women and girls and call them liars when they dare to speak up, is, in the words of the prophet Amos, sickening to God.

Speaking at a press conference on Thursday June 20 organized by the National Democratic Congress [NDC] to react to some comments made by President Akufo - Addo at a media encounter at the Flagstaff House in Accra, the minority leader said the NDC will resist the «blackmail witch - hunting» of the head of the election management body who was appointed by the past Mahama administration.

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.

In the Senate, Senate Majority Leader John J. Flanagan, who will outline the GOP's «Affordability Agenda» on Tuesday, welcomed his colleagues back, and Democratic Minority Leader Andrew Stewart - Cousins, seizing on a national conversation, spoke of the need to deal with issues of sexual harassment.

In the language of the federal law: «Where inability to speak and understand the English language excludes national origin minority group children from effective participation in the educational program offered by a school district, the district must take affirmative steps to rectify the language deficiency in order to open its instructional program to these students.»