Sentences with phrase «things about minorities»

It's basically suggesting that the EU says some nice things about minorities and throws a bit of money in their direction.

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Before you oil the squeaky wheel, here are some things to keep in mind about the vocal minority — those online customers, trolls and / or community members who have big mouths, but don't actually represent the sentiments of the group.

what's funny is that if these things were said about any other minority, something would have been done about it.

Minority Christians and white evangelical Christians «have a very personal view of God, a God that is very active in their daily lives and very concerned about the things that matter to them,» Jones said.

The dreadful things that we now know about were still, though none of us knew it then, going on in many Irish schools (though the numbers given in the report indicate that they were in a minority).

I find liberal atheists far more likely to coddle issues involving foreign minorities, suddenly telling everyone to be «tolerant» of things like Islam, all the while spewing rhetoric and filth about Christianity.

So as a Christian, I'm now a «hated minority» because people have stopped putting up with Christians saying offensive things about other people?

The greatest thing about Wimbledon is that they are an object lesson that there is an alternative; that football doesn't have to belong to stupid people making stupid decisions for the benefit of a selfish and self - serving minority.

ShareThe thing about being a person of color and of a minority is that the chances of you getting a doll that looks like you is pretty remote.

I'm well aware that my point of view is in the minority and not the politically - correct thing to say these days, but I know there are other women who feel this same way about pregnancy weight gain / loss... you've emailed me for goodness sakes!

In the Senate's traditional winner - takes - all system, the majority had a habit of starving the minority when it came to things like office supplies (ask Sen. Eric Schneiderman about this next time you see him) and access to the in - house video equipment.

Among those unhappy with the way things went down was Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, who said in a statement issued at about 1:30 a.m. that the extraordinary session had been «nothing to celebrate.»

In the face of a string of Tory reversals, all down to his opposition, Labour MPs from across the party — from Blairites to the soft left — have been won over by his leadership skills, despite the minority of plotters and the «mainstream media» who rudely reprinted all the things he's said over the years about the IRA, Hamas, Kosovo, Iran, Israel, etc..

As senate minority leader since 2007, John was a highly qualified state - government - experienced social moderate and fiscal conservative who was intimately knowledgeable about the inner workings of our state legislature and eminently qualified to get things done.

The survey of 1,035 minority voters completed earlier this week found nine in ten believed the UK was now multicultural and about that many believe it's a good thing.

Also, at one point, former NYC Council Minority Leader Tom Ognibene, a well - known Queens Republican, was meeting with and saying nice things about GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino.

«We certainly consider what the minority is saying, how the press will report it... that's the great thing about democracy, no one acts in a vacuum or without some accountability.»

«For years we've been scouring the literature,» said lead author Steven Alvarado, assistant professor of sociology, «and we haven't found anything about how or if MESA is effective on the things it wants to be effective for: increasing the STEM engagement outcomes of minority and other underrepresented students.»

«The most interesting thing about the study is there's a group of non-angry people — a minority — who lose their job and feel humiliated.

Past research shows minority students can be helped by being prompted to think about things they care about like sports, friends, or religion.

«Part of being black in this country, or being a minority in this country, is about feeling like we're perceiving things that we're told we're not perceiving,» said Peele.

I think I may be in the minority when I say that I liked Mark Wahlberg in The Big Hit... Don't know whether that's a good thing to come to mind while thinking about this video game adaptation movie.

What about the question that proved the pitfall of standardized testing when it asked urban, minority students to respond to a question about a «deck» when it turns out that not a single student knew what a «deck» was, although all knew that the porch was the thing that is attached to nearly every house in Bridgeport.

Some agents are happy about this post (in the minority), because they understand the modern day client, the way things are progressing with technology, and realize they need to step up their game to provide value to the transaction.

We have recently partnered up with Large Minority, a company that offers these amazing adventure challenges around the world (think: tuk - tuk driving across a country) and one of the things we love about them is their dedication to giving back to local communities from every person that joins their challenges.

I'm sure that you know something about that; there've been things in the paper, particularly about feminist groups, those representing minority interests, whatever --

In particular, he basically admitted that his was a minority viewpoint within the climate science community but mumbled various things about Thomas Kuhn and how hard it is to overturn an established paradigm... and something about public choice theory.]

The Star's Catherine Porter distills down the case for any Canadian who cares about the environment: «The only thing worse for the environment than a Harper minority is a Harper majority.»

As you suggest, we may be talking about 3 different things: (1) selling and closing — which only a minority can do without help / training, (2) creating a «client - focused culture» at our firms in which everyone is on board and (3) creating a «marketing culture», which also involves everyone.

You are right about one thing, though, no; it is not enough for me nor for the significant proportion of minority lawyers who have to contend with prejudice and racism at the Bar and with colleagues like you, who love to try to invalidate the experiences that they have on an almost daily basis.

He was later caught out in a silly matter concerning a sex worker whom he had recruited as a partner and this very considerable and able business man was brought low, but he turned his disadvantage and his humiliation into a positive thing, he wrote this book The Glass Closet it is book about why it is in the interest of employers to reach out to everybody, to reach out to women, to reach out to minorities, to reach out to minorities on the grounds of gender, on the grounds of race, on the grounds of sexuality and he makes the point as the CEO of one of the 500 biggest corporation in the world this I in the interest of the shareholders, in the interest of the business and it also in the interest of the employees and those who work with them.

One of the things progressive legal academics love to angst about is the relationship between minority rights and the courts.

Women and minorities in legal tech are writing thought - provoking articles that answer real questions about ethics and impact, among other things.

Though a vocal minority is still crying foul about the price of VR, the reality is that things have changed quite a bit for consumer VR in two years.