Sentences with phrase «way are in the minority»

Those who want it to stay that way are in the minority (some good people, wanting to protect the good of the past), but the structures are such that they are the ones who have the greatest power.

The few who have made money this way are in the minority.

Not exact matches

Because states would be drawn to maximize the number of the predominant political persuasion and minimize the number of those in the political minority, each state would have overwhelming consensus on political decisions, and relatively few people would have to be governed in a way they find objectionable.

But the former dominatrix says the very premise all of her trainings is based on — the idea that hidden power dynamics often impact minorities and women in unfair ways — seemed totally foreign to so many would - be students five years ago when she started teaching.

I hope that it does inspire a lot of people, any minority who's been preyed upon in this way to speak up and feel confident that they can speak up.»

Some individual schools also award aid this way, but they are in the overwhelming minority, Chany said.

Cook's announcement is certainly groundbreaking, but inclusion of all minorities in U.S. workplaces still has a long way to go.

The way fundraising works, unless you are in a very small minority of companies, you will unfortunately get a vast number of no's.

«These are good ways to transfer minority stock stakes to your children at levels that will trigger little or no tax liability,» explains Michael Mullaugh, an estate - settlement manager with Mellon Private Asset Management, in Pittsburgh.

For Big Food makers like Tyson, a minority stake is a way to see how a brand like Beyond Meat — which is already available in over 11,000 stores — develops without making too big of a financial commitment.

China has been criticized in many quarters for the way it uses its database, and facial recognition tech, in relation to ethnic minorities.

According to President Joset Wright - Lacy of NMSDC, «As we head into our 45th year of developing business opportunities for minority companies, we are very focused on finding new and meaningful ways to engage our members in our overall mission.

Diversity is a goal of many governments, as minority - and women - owned businesses provide unique perspectives and add to local economies in ways that traditional businesses often overlook.

«Much of the advice that minorities are often given around advancing and succeeding emphasizes the ways in which they may need to conform or assimilate — to see who's in power and emulate those models of power,» Roberts said.

Another way of calculating the proportional reduction in the content rule, is to consider the combined effect of the two thresholds. An auto part can qualify as TPP - made with just 30 % TPP content. A vehicle can qualify as TPP - made if 45 % of its content originate within the TPP — including auto parts which only had minority TPP content in the first place. This «double jeopardy» effect means that the theoretical minimum regional content for a finished vehicle to qualify for TPP trade preferences would be only 13.5 % (equal to 30 % of 45 %).

The same is true of gender and minority representation, since the expectations of the day, unfortunate as they were, didn't commonly include the belief held by many today that Parliament should look, think, and care about issues in broadly similar ways to the country at large.

It was a way to keep them in their place, willingly contribute their meager earning and enrich the minority lords and the church alongside.

Peers in the House of Lords are expected to vote later on an amendment which would pave the way for Britain to recognise Islamic State's treatment of Christians and other minorities as genocide.

By the way, essentually every minority group has been persecuted, throughout history, christians are not special in that regard.

There is, of course, always prejudice against minorities on the part of majorities; there are all kinds of ways to put minorities in an inferior position.

For example, a Heritage Foundation document titled «Time to Repeal Federal Death Taxes: The Nightmare of the American Dream» emphasizes stories that rarely, if ever, happen in real life: «Small - business owners, particularly minority owners, suffer anxious moments wondering whether the businesses they hope to hand down to their children will be destroyed by the death tax bill,... Women whose children are grown struggle to find ways to re-enter the work force without upsetting the family's estate tax avoidance plan.»

Freedom of religion is guaranteed by Article 29 of Indonesia's constitution, yet some regencies have adopted Shari'ah in a way that further marginalizes minority groups, said Syafi'i Anwar, executive director of the International Center for Islam and Pluralism.

Multiculturalism is frequently misappropriated, theologically distorted in a variety of ways ranging from «colorblindness» to romanticizing the lived experience of poor minorities.

In a true democracy, a doctrine of pluralism may be a way of safeguarding the rights of minorities; in a hierarchy, however, where authority proceeds from a Will not constituted by any part of the population, «pluralism» is often a code word for the project of giving political power the ascendancy over legitimate authoritIn a true democracy, a doctrine of pluralism may be a way of safeguarding the rights of minorities; in a hierarchy, however, where authority proceeds from a Will not constituted by any part of the population, «pluralism» is often a code word for the project of giving political power the ascendancy over legitimate authoritin a hierarchy, however, where authority proceeds from a Will not constituted by any part of the population, «pluralism» is often a code word for the project of giving political power the ascendancy over legitimate authority.

Time has come to stop catering to a tiny minority of our population that for the most part live in insular ghetto like enclaves of fellow muslims and makes little attempt to be absorbed into the American way of life.

Let's be realistic, if you're not with the majority you are the minority and that can hurt you in many ways in the modern day (politically, economically, socially, etc) if your just trying to scratch out a decent living.

Moslems only behave that way when they are in the minority.

I keep hearing that there is a minority of the most brilliant scientists who are believers, so in a similar way, that doesn't seem logical, not to me.

Christians are not, in any meaningful way, a minority subject to hate.

In the argument of Protestant - Catholic - Jew, if the specific dogmatic elements of each faith were not important, then religion must have become simply one way a minority group could ease its way into the mainstream.

Only a small minority (5 %) of the national academy of sciences believes in a personal prayer answering god — the «Born Again» Christian world view is an antiquated backward way of thinking that only serves to hold back the progress of this country and the world.

The fact that without the Biblical Department Vanderbilt's student body included only a minority of Methodists could be construed in either of two contrary ways: either the University had failed to attract its native constituency, or it had been so academically successful that others were crowding in.

I don't know how much clearer I can be on that subject... culture and defunct tribal practices is what drives the minority in the Middle East to behave the way they do... NOT religion.

They are a minority constantly looking for any article about God and try to put their two cent in to prove that they are way more in this world.

The ironic and indirect ways of affirming and denying — God bless the Czar and keep him far, far away — modes of speaking that are so important for Jewish humanism, are found in Yiddish, a plastic language that hung like a long suspension bridge over the chasm that separated the world of an isolated, vulnerable religious minority from the dangerous Gentile - dominated majority culture.

Sunni Muslims are expressing their anger in the only way they know of: oppression of minority by violence and injustice.

The second questionable way in which minorities in the once mainline churches try to re-form the churches is by identifying true Christianity with the adoption of what are perceived as radical positions on various contemporary issues of personal and social ethics.

«My dream for IF: Gathering is to give women the depths of knowing God in an accessible way and to unleash them live out their purpose,» said Allen, who remembers being in the female minority when she attended Dallas Theological Seminary in the early 2000s.

In fact, only a minority of Christians» usually evangelical Protestants of a fundamentalist bent» say that all non-Christians are on their way to hell.

You Said ----» Also most Sikhs have a problem with so many checks or more checks than the rules dictate because they are a visible minority and it is based on a persons (airport security) opinion and ppl are generally bias, it's like dirty cop syndrome in a way.

Also most Sikhs have a problem with so many checks or more checks than the rules dictate because they are a visible minority and it is based on a persons (airport security) opinion and ppl are generally bias, it's like dirty cop syndrome in a way.

Good in theory, but now resulting in manufactured revenge accusations against minority communities where a blasphemy charge is hard to prove, frequently goes the way of the mob, is used to settle old grudges and I believe carries the death penalty.

«It's definitely true that in many ways, white evangelicals and black Protestants or black evangelicals, or evangelicals from other racial and ethnic minorities have a lot in common,» the Pew Research Center's associate director, Greg Smith, told NPR for its exploration of the true number of evangelical voters.

The Christian minority, CBN reports, is praying for Ahok as well as for Anies, who they hope will meet the standards his predecessor set and govern in a way that is fair to all Indonesians.

(How Christianity is to relate, as a minority faith, to pluralistic environments is one of the key topics to be taken up at this month's celebration of the 50th anniversary of Tambaram — the meeting in that city near Madras of the International Missionary Council which included the Third World in a way that anticipated the current influence of the «newer churches» in the World Council of Churches.)

The legalization of sod by way of minority Status is the secret to understanding why pro-sod activists adopted the strategy outlined in The Gay Agenda So I challenged to where this was wrong none of you have provided any proof that any of what you said is more than one quote on top of another.

Our recent social history has evolved in such a way, however, that obtaining equal rights for minorities is part of our combined morality.

At the same time, certain complaints recur: traditional curricula are rooted in precritical assumptions, serve academic guilds, pre-empt feminist or minority studies, and are built on unviable ways of relating theory and practice.

The true minority in our society are the elite and they got that way because of hard work and determination, therefore we as citizens must stop blaming them and blame ourselves.

To the extent we reject Christian morality, it is where it is outdated or mean spirited — such as in the way it seeks to curtail freedoms or oppose the rights of $ exual minorities.