Sentences with phrase «voice is in the minority»

Even if that voice is in the minority — or so you may think.

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«They didn't have a voice or outlet, so they created satiric punk songs that put them on the map and gave them a voice about what it's like to be a practicing minority in a country where there's suspicion about their loyalties.

Matt Walsh is a minority voice that is practicing his free speech rights, but his being fired REPEATEDLY in the past 4 years shows that freedom of speech does include the right to call him a pompous ass.

Unfortunately, the minority voice in the communitiy tends to be incredibly vocal and, at times, hostile in the sole attempt to delude the general public into thinking that, if one is a scientist or intelligent, one does not believe in a God or subscribe to intellingent design theories.

«The voice of the oppressed minority» can be a rallying cry in order to be an empowerment and enabling to be an effective force in resisting oppression.

Their books may not be known to most of the general public interested in questions related to Jesus, the Gospels, or the early Christian church, but they do occupy a noteworthy niche as a (very) small but (often) loud minority voice.

get this) DO NOT allow religious voices to have dominance in the public sphere (politicians want their vote) DO ensure that the voices of religious minorities and those who have no faith are protected (again protected..

But while experience shows that the Catholics» answer to the fundamentalists lies in the base communities, only a minority of bishops have strongly pushed for them because of the Vatican's frequently voiced concern that they are too «horizontal» — meaning that they are a democratic influence on a hierarchical church — and liable to become involved in social and political issues.

But in the past fifty years, Christianity has been blamed, with some justification, for the Holocaust, for participating in colonial oppression, for arrogance in dealing with other communities of faith, for ecological destruction, for cruelty to animals, for oppression of women, for repression of the body and its sexuality, for suppressing the voices of minority groups and thus participating in their oppression, for the persecution of gays and Lesbians, and many other crimes.

Are many of the posters here proclaiming themselves to be the voice of God, standing in front of congregations they are tasked to teach, and calling for the death of an entire minority groAre many of the posters here proclaiming themselves to be the voice of God, standing in front of congregations they are tasked to teach, and calling for the death of an entire minority groare tasked to teach, and calling for the death of an entire minority group?

What steps are you (and possibly Sojourners as an organization) taking to be inclusive of female and minority voices in the main discussion sphere?

So a correction was found as the «70s dawned, the angry voices of the alienated minorities diminished, the bloody Vietnam war ended, the cities grew less hysterical, and the nation discovered that its institutions were strong enough to withstand the enormous challenge of corruption in the highest office of this land, finally expelling that corruption in a violent period of national purging.

The difference between the two rests, I believe, in the contrast between intentional, cohesive, conscience - shaping communities of identity and social solidarity, not only in Utah but in the Mormon minority communities around the country, and Evangelical communities that are too often influenced by raging pundits, talk radio, and TV shout - shows — and these voices sometimes drown out the pastor's.

With this filter in place, the next step is to diversify voices we listen to by reading ethnic minority authors who are communicating their assessments of the social constructs inside and outside of Evangelicalism.

That there was a minority in the German delegation we learned to be true, but the delegation always acted as a unit and the minority did not find a voice.

It is an interest shared by all the other minority voices in the country.

It was a minority of fans who had voiced their frustrations at their team's failure to mount a title challenge in recent years.

I know I'm in the minority by voicing that opinion but when I saw it live, I thought «damn, that's a pen.»

In addition to being the voice of Kaiser Permanente Northern California OB / GYN on Twitter and coauthor of My Pregnancy Pocket Guide, she mentors underrepresented minority women in medicine and is active in Physicians Medical Forum and Sinkler Miller Medical AssociatioIn addition to being the voice of Kaiser Permanente Northern California OB / GYN on Twitter and coauthor of My Pregnancy Pocket Guide, she mentors underrepresented minority women in medicine and is active in Physicians Medical Forum and Sinkler Miller Medical Associatioin medicine and is active in Physicians Medical Forum and Sinkler Miller Medical Associatioin Physicians Medical Forum and Sinkler Miller Medical Association.

The opinions and voices of the minorities in the group were mocked and belittled and unfortunately, we had to make the decision to moderate the mob as this post (and a number of others) devolved into ugliness.

The over-the-top negativity towards formula and all or nothing approach, are not, in my experience, at all just the voice of a tiny minority of advocates.

The government is charged vociferously with paying too much attention to faith groups (accused by left - liberal secularists of an unprincipled timidity on faith schools, being too open to faith engagement in third sector; and of being generally rather socially conservative; and, alternatively, by the right having a cynical multiculturalist approach to minority faiths as electoral blocs) and also of too little attention to faith (with some «competitive grievance» claims that Muslims are getting too much attention, by some claiming to speak for some other minority faiths and by some Christian voices; and traditionalists who think there is a secret project to do in every institution).

New legislation intended to give minority hairdressers a greater voice in the professional standards of their industry has been signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Community Voices Heard, a community activist organization started by single mothers on public assistance in NYC more than two decades ago, was at the forefront of the #NoCuts Coalition rally, along with U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, State Senator Marisol Alcantara (D - 31st Senate District), and the leaders of several dozen grassroots, civic and labor organizations.

The small districts were designed to answer concerns from many voters, including minority residents of Syracuse, that their voices would not be heard in a countywide government.

Jennifer Pozner, founder and executive director of Women In Media & News, emphasized that net neutrality was crucial to ensure that women and minorities could continue to make their voices heard outside the mainstream media through the power of online communities.

There's always the story of how the majority dominating the minority but that happens only in a partial or weak democracy because such a clear cut segregation of an issue happens only when a lot of the voices or actors are silenced.

Nevertheless, Stewart - Cousins believes that if Klein's conference is being elevated to a «consultation» role in the chamber despite being in the minority, then her mainline conference, too, should have a greater voice.

And while I sympathize with his frustrations regarding «the holes in his roads and in the county budget», for most in the community know that I, as a minority legislator, have been one of the most prominent voices in county government trying to stop financial missteps over the past few years.

«But that doesn't mean that we should be diminishing the voices of the millions of people that the minorities in both houses represent.»

It was engineered by minority members who voiced concern about speculation that he might not be able to hold on to the leadership in the wake of the AEG scandal and likely return to power of the Senate GOP.

It is difficult to find sincerity in the university's thinking that minorities can succeed and are welcome into the university community when no minority voices from the department can carry this message to the minority student population.

And it managed to do what so many strident voices have not been able to do: suggest a course of action to both sides, the minority and the majority (predators and prey in «Zootopia»), without alienating either.

Ashley Judd called for intersectionality in storytelling, followed by a powerful montage of diverse filmmakers explaining the necessity for minority voices; writer and star of The Big Sick, Kumail Nanjiani, remarked that if he was able to watch and be affected by films narrating straight white men all his life, then white men have no reason to feel out of place with BAME and female - led stories.

Lulled by the voice of Karen Carpenter singing «Yesterday Once More» on the station - wagon radio, she accidentally drives off and leaves her kids at a diner, and I'm reminded that it was the female characters in «Boardwalk Empire» (Kelly Macdonald as Margaret Schroeder Thompson; Gretchen Mol as Gillian Darmody), as well as the minority characters (Michael Kenneth Williams as Chalky White), who gave that show an accessibility and emotional depth it wouldn't have had if it were populated only with its endless parade white male mobsters.

«The changes we are witnessing are being driven by the powerful sound of new voices, of different voices, of our voices, joining together in a mighty chorus that is finally saying, «Time's up,»» said Judd, before introducing a montage of women and minority filmmakers talking about representation and intersectionality in cinema.

We would also like to engage the participation of the civil society and let their voices be heard, including those vulnerable and marginalized minorities, in the public environmental policy making processes.

There is a progressive minority of businesses that recognize and have designed workplaces that both make the best use of their workers» talents and give workers a voice in such decisions as job - ladder construction and hours of labor.

All of those voices qualify as «Black lives,» but, as educational minorities, they are denied their place in two major forums of Black thought.

For years, critics have voiced concern that low - income students and minorities were hurt the most by the drop in Bright Future dollars.

For antiracism education to be effective, school staffs need to ensure that student racial and ethnic characteristics are reflected in the teaching and support personnel, because an ethnically diverse teaching staff has the potential to enrich the school's teaching and learning, and to provide a voice for racial minority concerns (Solomon, 2002).

According to the Shanker Institute report, attrition is «the most significant impediment to increasing the diversity of the teacher workforce,» with minority teachers» strongest complaints related not to being concentrated in urban schools serving high poverty, high - need communities, but because of «a lack of collective voice in educational decisions and a lack of professional autonomy in the classroom.»

And incidentally, these publishing routes tend to have a keen interest in the midlist authors, niche genres, and minority voices traditional publishing is struggling to support.

The victim advocacy movement may yet regrow a bona fide humane movement rooted in representing «the voice of the voiceless,» as poet Etta Wheeler Wilcox put it in 1910, at a time when humane societies were the standard bearers for abused and exploited children as well as animals, and stood in opposition to slavers and the Ku Klux Klan, not in defense of the dogs the slavers and the KKK bred and used to intimidate racial and ethnic minorities, between staging fundraising dogfights.

The two systems are very close in terms of power, but the Xbox One offers minority report like Kinnect 2.0 with voice commands and Cable integration.

Because happy people are generally quiet people, this meant the majority of voices making themselves heard in Games Journalism's comments sections and forums were actually those from the negative minority.

But even you said «Because happy people are generally quiet people, this meant the majority of voices making themselves heard in Games Journalism's comments sections and forums were actually those from the negative minority.»

From the French Revolution to recent developments in Egypt, the ability for minority voices to spread ideas, concerns, and add to the social dialogue through artistic expression is a vital aspect of any democracy.

Silence is not an option when your government does not speak for you or when a country such as Cameroon has no art schools or museums; or when in South Africa hierarchies of apartheid and exclusion privileged only a minority to officially partake in art; or when in Ethiopia, the communist military junta which overthrew Haile Selassie in 1974 also undid his work as patron of the arts, turned the art school into a socialist realist propaganda machine and jailed or killed all dissident voices.

3) There is what I see as an anti-science, anti-Nasa, and related anti-government theme existing amongst some in the general population, and though these voices are for the moment, a minority, they can be a loud minority at times.