Sentences with phrase «substantial minority»

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.

Lutheranism also prevailed in the Baltic countries south of Finland and won substantial minorities in Hungary and Transylvania, at the outset largely among German settlers.

Also, how replicable is this method in southern states like Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu or Andhra Pradesh, with substantial minority populations?

The extension will allow Pandora to instead explore interest expressed by a «strategic investor» who wants to make a «substantial minority investment in the company,» a brief announcement from Pandora explains.

Actelion R&D Unit to Spin Out into Standalone Company Based and Listed in Switzerland; New R&D Company to Continue Actelion's Successful Culture of Innovation and Johnson & Johnson to Hold Substantial Minority Interest

Ladd Hirsch and John Tancabel are accomplished Business Divorce attorneys who frequently represent majority owners and substantial minority investors in private Texas companies.

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

On Thursday, Pandora said it was exploring interest that had been expressed by an unnamed strategic investor in making a «substantial minority investment.»

Monogram Capital Partners acquired a substantial minority stake in Greek yogurt brand Ellenos this week, according to the firm.

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?

That number is declining (down from 44 % according to a 2011 survey), but it is still a substantial minority.

Of the 56 percent of GOP voters who think Trump would be a good or great president, a substantial minority of them (17 % of Republican registered voters overall) say they think Trump is not religious.

This form of state building seeks to enhance state capacity in a globalised world in order to extend the power and influence of a country's «substantial minorities».

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.

While most of the former UKIP voters from the 2015 general election went to the Conservatives in 2017, a substantial minority went to Labour.

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.

But a substantial minority — 35 % said they were motivated by the fact Labour «no longer represents people like me».

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.

However these figures also suggests that whichever side were to split from the Labour party would take a substantial minority of Labour's support with them.

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.

Your ignoring the fact a substantial minority in the Greens, for example, are clearly not for AV.

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.

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.

For a substantial minority though (around 20 to 30 per cent) the tics continue and for some become increasingly severe and resistant to treatment.

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.

«We're hoping that a substantial minority of the patients that are tested will actually have rare or uncommon cancers» so more can be learned about what genes fuel them, Lowy said.

«This is reassuring, but we should note that a substantial minority of people still experience sexual difficulties,» commentary author Weinfurt said.

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 meeting people online can have potential negative consequences:

A substantial minority of online daters have paid to use an online dating site or app, and «niche» sites for people with specific interests or backgrounds are popular with relatively large numbers of online daters:

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

In the past few years, its home - grown leadership team has overseen a striking rise in test scores, especially among its substantial minority population.

A team of scholars from the University of Houston — Sa Bui, Steven Craig, and Scott Imberman — studied programs in a large urban school district with a substantial minority and low - income population in the southwestern United States, where since 2007 all 5th - grade students have been tested for eligibility to participate in GT programming.

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.

«In all states, however, a substantial minority were dissatisfied with the lack of support in schools and the fact that their teaching, skills and experience were not recognised and rewarded adequately.»

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.

It is not always a pretty story: one of the revelations here is that TR was hated and feared by a substantial minority of his fellow citizens.

During my nine - year tenure as a bookseller, I've discovered that, for a substantial minority, common sense among authors is not as common as you might think.

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.

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

However, cats are a substantial minority of veterinary visitors.

But according to a person familiar with the board's deliberations but not authorized to discuss them, the vote was postponed several times by a substantial minority of trustees who were «turning over every unturned stone,» in the hope that they could stabilize the college's finances without charging undergraduate tuition.