Sentences with phrase «time as minority»

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For the last seven years he has served full - time as president of Cristo Rey Brooklyn HS, which educates minority students, mostly immigrants or first - generation Americans of modest means.

And we found that access to capital remains a huge challenge, especially for minority - owned businesses, which have loan denial rates three times as high as those of non-minority-owned firms.

«There is no certainty that any minority investment or strategic partnership will be agreed, or as to any terms, timing, or form of any such investment or partnership,» it said.

Others pointed out that this also highlights a point about racism, as black and minority ethnic (BME) people also have this done to them all the time.

But exclusive research published for the first time by Business Insider shows how ethnic minority politicians such as Abbott receive disproportionate amounts of that abuse.

During this time, MacLaren and de Pencier had become busy with new projects and decided to bring in Maclean Hunter, the country's largest magazine publisher, as minority shareholder.

The news comes as the first time in 37 years of the GSS, Americans in opposition to same sex relations were in the minority.

A fund that started out as an experimental bet on minority - owned small businesses in Detroit is about to get almost three times as big.

As the chart above illustrates, there is an interesting correlation between the seat - advantage a minority government holds over the official Opposition, and the length of time between general elections when the minority is in power.

Marceau presented the economic road map at a critical time for the minority PQ, which is widely expected to call a snap election in the coming weeks as polls suggest Marois is within striking distance of a majority mandate.

At this point in time fiduciaries may be among the minority in the profession, but there's one out there who will surely look out for your best interests without conflicts — and who is willing to sign a legal document stating as much.

As time goes on, people are starting to realise that the general consensus here is positive towards cryptocurrency and that as it stands, the RBI are the minoritAs time goes on, people are starting to realise that the general consensus here is positive towards cryptocurrency and that as it stands, the RBI are the minoritas it stands, the RBI are the minority.

If the minority chain has significant value we will make that value available for customers to hold or exchange for a period of time, as we did with Bitcoin Cash.

So as a member of the most oppressed minority group in the history of time, religion is the cause of 95 % of the evil in this world and I don't need it in my government.

the minority is usually viewed as second class by the majority all the time.

They are the persecuted minority in Egypt that are used as «whipping boys» every time there is a clash between the West and the Islamic countries.

When I used to attend (evangelical christian) church there was always a vocal strain of folks who wanted to think they were persecuted, they told made - up stories about christians being persecuted in various parts of the world (at the time a lot of them were set in the U.S.S.R.)... it was so obvious that they LOVED thinking of themselves as some small group of martyrs, that they NEEDED to imagine themselves to be a persecuted minority... holding on to some secret truth that the rest of the world had turned its back on.

At a time where more people in Britain identify as «No Religion'than identify with all religions combined, he's in a minority.

Christians and christian politics dominate this country, and it is time for minority's to be recognized as well!

Additionally, this is an education system that promotes inequality and therefore injustice: Schools in the United States are twice as likely to pair poor and minority students with brand - new teachers and almost four times more likely to suspend black students than white students.

When another saintly Benedict did finally emerge, this time upon the Chair of Peter, his cultural analysis echoed that of MacIntyre: «I would say that normally it is the creative minorities that determine the future, and in this sense the Catholic Church must understand itself as a creative minority,» suggested Pope Benedict XVI during an in - flight papal press conference in 2009.

That comparison proved prophetic, as Hendershott exposes the racial politics of abortion and the influence eugenics plays in abortion ideology» reinforced by the startling facts that black babies are aborted three times as often as white babies, and 78 percent of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics are in minority neighborhoods.

Soon we'll learn to transform our mind to the mind of Christ so that sinners flood our feet with tears (Luke 7:36 - 38); so that tax - collecting robbers want to spend time with us (Luke 19:1 - 10); so that we don't treat a Samaritan woman like a half - breed minority like the rest of society does (John 4:9, 27), or as a sexual obstacle to overcome as many Christian men in today's society do.

For a long time the system had been successfully digestive; it could cope with non-Protestants as impotent minorities.

In our own time, there are at least some efforts to include women, ethnic minorities, the homeless, and other previously repressed and excluded minorities as fully belonging to social and religious circles.

I am glad we are moving towards a time where nonbelievers and people of minority religions are feeling as free to speak their opinions as freely as the privileged «Christian» masses.

One seminary teacher tells of being at his greatest effectiveness during the days that he shared with his students the blow - by - blow account of his dealings with real estate people as he sold his house to a member of a minority group and tried, at the same time, to act responsibly toward his neighbors.

These facts along with the fact that for the first time a minority of young Britons now identify themselves as Christian means that if current trends continue, in the next 20 years or so there will be more Muslims in Britain than Christians.

Among the peoples bearing the Christian name, although they were still far from fully embodying the Gospel as set forth in the New Testament, Christianity more nearly approximated that goal than at any time since by the «conversion» of the Roman Empire it had ceased to be the faith of a persecuted minority and become a folk religion.

As a self - proclaimed persecuted minority, the sexual revolutionaries enjoy the greatest unchecked privilege of our time, that of identity victimhood, with a monopoly on the positive language of love and freedom.

My own hunch is that, so far as the Reformed churches are concerned, charismatics may continue as a small minority for some time to come, but the movement's principal effect on these churches has already been felt.

I found it very surprising and also refreshing to read your struggles with exercise and healthy eating because I suppose I had this dreamy ideal perception of you as someone who did everything ultra healthy the majority of the time with slacking the minority.

As usual at this time of year the long - suffering Arsenal supporters start protesting about Arsene Wenger's lack of trophies over the last decade, and just like every other season, Wenger and the Board just shrug it off as a «tiny minority» of real Arsenal fanAs usual at this time of year the long - suffering Arsenal supporters start protesting about Arsene Wenger's lack of trophies over the last decade, and just like every other season, Wenger and the Board just shrug it off as a «tiny minority» of real Arsenal fanas a «tiny minority» of real Arsenal fans.

Gibbs is an ok backup, but I have never understood that small minority of people who always big up Gibbs as if all he needs is more playing time.

nonny, dude iv done the whole «wait and see» and hav kept faith for a long time now, and so hav alot of other arsenal fans... this is the only blog i post on but i occasionally go read on others just to make sure im not being negative or overly critical, as i hav been often accused.im sorry to say at this moment you are the minority, ur waiting, hoping that things miraculously turn around and that their really isnt a problem.well their is, the fact that these players promised potential hasnt come to fruition isnt down to bad luck or wotever ur blaming it on....

But mothers in urban, poor and minority areas often face unique challenges as well: the sheer logistics of finding time to breastfeed, perhaps while juggling single motherhood and working a service job where it's difficult to find a private, clean place to use a breastpump, for example.

Prior to this discovery, in most western industrialized countries SIDS rates ranged between approximately 1.5 to 4 infants per 1000 live births (compared to industrialized counties in Asia, such as Japan, which has the lowest SIDS rates in the world,.05 infants per 1000 live births21) with enormous increases amongst minorities, especially impoverished indigenous peoples such as the Maori of New Zealand, the Cree of Northern Canada, and the Aborigines of Australia.19, 22,23 Native peoples in the United States demonstrated similar exponentially increased SIDS (or SUDI rates, see below), as much as two to seven the times the rates found amongst white Americans.13, 19 Despite significant declines among almost all cultural and / or ethnic groups, SIDS rates still remain the leading cause of death for infants between one month and one year of life in the United States and elsewhere.13

Given the centrality of slavery as the definitional opposite of freedom in Pettit's account of republicanism, his preference for a kind of institutional arrangement that has shown itself capable of repeatedly holding, at times against democratic majorities, that the state - mandated oppression of minorities is perfectly acceptable is odd.

«Near Neighbours might achieve the results that the Prevent agenda wanted to achieve while at the same time providing minorities protection under the wing of the Church of England,» as one Muslim worshipper told researchers.

His emergence as best performing minority MP makes it the first time that a representative of the Bolgatanga Central Constituency has been given such recognition.

«Mindful» that as a minority government «alliances» would be necessary to pass the next Budget, she said the time was right to «open a discussion about how responsible and progressive use of our tax powers could help build the kind of country we want to be».

We have warned time and time again that the policies and laws dreamt up to make things as unpleasant as possible for undocumented migrants, will also cause discrimination against migrants who are here legally, as well as against ethnic minority British citizens.

Headline figures can also disguise other complexities, such as the prevalence of unemployment amongst ethnic minorities, women, disabled people, young people, and people who have been unemployed for long periods of time.

Known for a time in Brooklyn as «the Mwalimu» («great teacher» in Swahili), Vann was the moving force behind a landmark 1982 Federal case that led to the expansion of minority representation in New York at the state and federal levels.

In the Senate, the motion may be offered at other times during consideration of a measure, and is not a prerogative of a member of the minority party; it may also be used as a means of offering an amendment.

As he mulls a potential challenge to Gov. Andrew Cuomo next fall, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb is casting himself as a more mature alternative to the hard - charging governor, suggesting he could work better with Cuomo's long - time frenemy and fellow Democrat, NYC Mayor Bill de BlasiAs he mulls a potential challenge to Gov. Andrew Cuomo next fall, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb is casting himself as a more mature alternative to the hard - charging governor, suggesting he could work better with Cuomo's long - time frenemy and fellow Democrat, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasias a more mature alternative to the hard - charging governor, suggesting he could work better with Cuomo's long - time frenemy and fellow Democrat, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.

«I believe that Governor Cuomo is not only working against the Democratic Party as the leader — who as the leader should be protecting and defending the party and its candidates — but I also believe that he is working against racial equality and minority opportunities by preventing Black and Hispanics from gaining positions of leadership in New York State,» Diaz wrote in his «What You Should Know» email at the time.

As reported by the Aspen Times, Bloomberg stated that government needs to remove firearms from young minority males.

In a statement they issued, the minority said that «we find it totally unjustifiable and unacceptable that the Deputy Minister would label the entire people of the three Northern Regions who he says he has lived with for 27 years, as unreasonable people, accomplished and persistent liars, people with a high propensity for perpetrating fraud, people who all the time use these fraudulent acts to steal money from the state.»

The New York Times» piece on Herbalife yesterday, which details how billionaire hedge fund manager William Ackman is waging a PR campaign to destroy the supplement company for his own profit, buries the role of three of the city's most prominent Latino politicians in a massive campaign to cast Herbalife as a pyramid scheme targeting minorities.