Sentences with phrase «substantial minorities of»

OK, you have every right not to personally identify with Britishness or a British identity: substantial minorities of different sizes in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as well as England may well agree with you.

It's worth pointing out that a substantial minority of Lib Dems are very keen on ideas such as Land Value Tax which would directly address many of the problems arising from asset inequality, in particular the fact that land owners can often make substantial gains in wealth as a result of public works funded out of the income and consumption taxes paid by those of substantially less wealth than themselves.

But there are powerful reasons for requiring such support, such as preventing constitutional provisions that are strongly opposed by a substantial minority of the country from being enacted, which would undermine the nation's allegiance toward the Constitution.

A substantial minority of the British public say they could never see themselves voting Ukip, a survey commissioned by ComRes for ITV News has found.

In short, a substantial minority of people who say they'll vote Labour don't seem to be very pro-Labour when you inquire further.

Today, spectacle - wearers seem to make up a substantial minority of children.

A substantial minority of those who died when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 were obese, a bit on the hairy side and would have suffered from headaches and a form of diabetes, according to Estelle Lazer, an archaeologist and physical anthropologist at the University of Sydney.

A substantial minority of people with celiac and gluten sensitivity react both to distilled vinegar and distilled alcohol that are originally derived from gluten, regardless of test results.

On the other hand, a substantial minority of these users agree that.

ELL students tended to make up either a majority or substantial minority of the student populations of these schools.

However, a substantial minority of Northern Ireland students each year sit GCSE exams set by English examination boards.

In general the teachers in this study viewed the district's new teacher - evaluation program more positively than negatively, although a substantial minority of teachers said that they would not recommend the evaluation program to other school districts, citing concerns ranging from fairness to feedback.

The primary reason why the average mutual fund expense ratio has come down in the past, albeit only slightly, is that a substantial minority of all individual investors has gotten smarter about excessive investment costs.

As it happens, AGW is a very highly politicised issue, deals with uncertain predictions based on computer models (rather than observations) and there is a substantial minority of experts, including some IPCC contributors who don't agree with this position.

That statistic, more than any other, shows how successful the forces of confusion have been: 85 % of Americans, apparently, can console themselves with the thought that a substantial minority of climate scientists doubts anthropogenic climate change.

Oh, by the way, we're not worried about the substantial minority of unmarried women who are disenfranchised.

The results can not therefore be generalised to the substantial minority of bulimic patients with comorbid «multi-impulsive» personality characteristics, 1 to patients with substance misuse, or to adolescents.

Not exact matches

It appears the airline is now preparing something far more substantial, with nearly 60 employees, plus consultants, working on the plan, which may launch with the minority support of a foreign airline.

[A] substantial majority of our page views are generated by a minority of our members,» the company admits in its S - 1.

However, when the substantial majority of over 60 per cent gets split among four other competing parties, the Conservatives — with a minority of the vote — could wind up forming the government.

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.

The report did not allege that the government of Pakistan supported discrimination, but it speculated that «the government's reticence in looking into incidents involving discrimination against minorities is a reflection of its fear of offending fundamentalist Muslims who wield substantial influence over their co-religionists.»

Or, instead, can we recognize that a substantial minority in our culture hold views they see as rooted in their scriptures and part of their faith, even though those views may not always be popularly accepted?

At the outset of the century its population was descended chiefly from immigrants from Great Britain and North Ireland, with substantial minorities from the Protestant portions of Germany and the Netherlands and slight contingents of Huguenots and Swedes.

Exclusion of young fathers in some ethnic minority families may be reinforced by cultural practices when female family members play a particularly substantial role in providing support to the mother during pregnancy and birth (Pollock et al, 2005)

Most women had little knowledge of the advantages and disadvantages of giving birth at home and in hospital, although there was substantial demand for further information, and a minority who were better informed than their peers.

Because Blair's project is to dismantle the Labour Party and the welfare state, he confronts not merely a small class struggle minority, but also substantial forces rooted in the traditional structures of the labour movement.

Turnout among minority voters and younger voters could affect the result in a district here or there, but an increase in suburban turnout or a substantial shift by suburban voters (especially suburban women) from the Republicans to the Democrats could have a much broader impact on the fight for control of the House.

A majority of those who voted Remain think that Leave cheated (though a substantial minority think that the Remain campaign cheated too), and 45 % of Remainers think that if the referendum campaigns had followed the rules then Remain would have ended up winning.

«As Assembly Minority Leader, I was encouraged to hear the governor put forward priorities that fall in line with a number of Conference proposals, including: pension forfeitures for convicted officials, a Constitutional Convention, greater resources for our State Police and focus on public safety, tax relief for small businesses, tax credits for teachers, and a substantial investment in education.»

A «substantial minority» of long - term disability benefit claimants are being failed by an assessment system that is too often undermined by basic errors, insensitivity and ignorance about people's conditions, MPs have said.

All three programs support research training for educational institutions with a substantial population of underrepresented minority students, and their Web pages each contain a policy statement, supplemental instructions, frequently asked questions, and a list of participating institutions.

The percentage of doctorate holders in nonacademic S&E occupations who are underrepresented minorities increased from 4.4 percent in 1990 to 6.1 in 2005, a substantial increase if it were not over a very small base.18 Myers and Turner concluded that market forces such as wages play a more prominent role in affecting faculty representation in the short run than pipeline factors designed to increase the supply of minority faculty.19

[38] Although the results of the trials of cell therapy for PD were mixed, with only a minority of patients showing clear - cut and durable gains, researchers have subsequently gained substantial insight into the reasons underlying differential outcomes at different centers and amongst different protocols, and for the troubling dyskinesias that were suffered by some patients.

I was on the Foreign Language Film Award Committee, and I have no doubt that there must be a substantial boost in the number of minorities that serve on all of the committees.

Given the disparate performances among students from various cultural backgrounds, it may be worth inquiring as to whether differences between the United States and other countries are due to the presence of a substantial minority population within the United States.

However, this does not diminish the significance of the substantial increases in performance on the skills tested, especially for minority students.

In addition, much of this new spending went toward compensatory programs for minority and disadvantaged students, for whom there have been substantial score gains over time.

The group warned: «For a minority of children, the school lunchtime represents the only chance each day to eat something substantial.»

Minority students have been closing gaps with their white peers in recent years, but those gaps remain substantial: In 2013, 86.6 percent of white students graduated on time, compared with 75.2 percent of Hispanic students and 70.7 percent of black students, according to the annual GradNation report.

But the literature contains many examples of schools serving substantial portions of economically disadvantaged students and ethnic minorities that have raised student achievement in reading and math while delivering a well - rounded curriculum that includes the arts (Petersen, 2007).

The substantial majority of those left behind without such choices are relatively poor, inner city, and often minority children.

In fact, the high school completion rates of black students did not stall until the mid-1980s, diverging slightly from the overall trend, though the substantial graduation gap between whites and minorities has changed very little in the last 35 years (Heckman and LaFontaine 2010).

And there is substantial research to support it — I suggest you review 90-90-90 schools... these are schools that have 90 % minority populations, 90 % free and reduced lunch student populations, and 90 % of students reaching proficiency on standardized tests!

Unfortunately, 4 % growth in diluted EPS didn't keep abreast — a substantial portion of the (incremental) profit was earned in JVs, and dropped down into minorities.

-- Globe and Mail «Substantial minority» of Canadians will struggle if rates rise — Globe and Mail

The rot finally set in with the purchase of a 49.5 % stake in Picard, for almost $ 0.5 billion — investors didn't appreciate the diversification into a minority stake in a retail business which offered no real synergies, not to mention another substantial increase in leverage (albeit, mostly on a non - recourse / non-consolidated basis).

This release contains forward - looking information that involves substantial risks and uncertainties about the intention to file a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of a minority ownership stake in Pfizer's Animal Health business, including the anticipated timing of such a transaction and the potential benefits to Pfizer.

The vast majority of fliers will see a modest drop in the number of miles they earn each year, a small but heavy flying minority will see a substantial drop of 50,000 + miles, while another small minority of heavy spending fliers will see sizable increases in the number of miles earned.

And then there was Al Gore and IPCC, and before they knew it, the ACC group were flipped into «the Establishment», for a brief moment the wider public agreed with the tiny ACC minority view — which by that time was much more mature and had substantial interest and support as, if certainly not definitive, the best of the extant theories at that time.