Sentences with phrase «white white peers»

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Mr. Thiel has long stood out in Silicon Valley for his vocal libertarianism, but he drew heavy criticism from many tech - industry peers — including fellow Facebook board member Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix Inc. — when he backed Mr. Trump's presidential campaign and later served as an adviser on his White House transition team.

«In this system, female employees and employees of color are systematically undervalued compared to their male and white or Asian American peers,» the lawsuit says.

In an exchange with reporters between sessions at the U.S. trade representative's office across from the White House, Freeland said she and her peers are now down to the finest details on auto rules of origin.

His record since his conviction is similarly unblemished, and he continues to be held in high regard by his colleagues and peers,» the White House said in a statement.

And while these illnesses are consistent across demographic lines, people of color are more sensitive to the stigma of a diagnosis and are less likely to get the same level of care as their white peers.

In the white paper, it is described as a «free open source peer - to - peer electronic cash system that is completely decentralized».

In November 2008, a white paper was posted on the internet under the name Satoshi Nakamoto titled «Bitcoin: A Peer - to - Peer Electronic Cash System.»

The white paper outlined the concept for a peer - to - peer version of electronic cash that would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another, anonymously and without counterparty risk or intermediation from financial institutions.

On average, white male students graduate with about 33 % more debt than their white female peers.

Blockchain technology is the technological basis of Bitcoin, first described by its mysterious author Satoshi Nakamoto in his white paper «Bitcoin: A Peer - to - Peer Electronic Cash System», published in 2008.

«In this system, female employees and employees of color are systematically undervalued compared to their male and white or Asian American peers,» the lawsuit claims.

President Trump huddled Wednesday with Apple chief executive Tim Cook to discuss trade as the White House forges ahead with tariffs on China and other trade policies that have provoked sharp rebukes from the iPhone giant and its tech - industry peers.

The Washington Post's Tony Romm: «Trump huddled Wednesday with Apple chief executive Tim Cook to discuss trade as the White House forges ahead with tariffs on China and other trade policies that have provoked sharp rebukes from the iPhone giant and its tech - industry peers.

Anthony: I think it's important to note that this whole thing started about a decade ago with a white paper about a peer - to - peer, digital cash payment system, but over the past decade, people have realized that this underlying technology has a ton of applications, not just in financial services and payments, but in other industries such as health care, supply chain and so on.

Recent school safety proposals introduced after Parkland — like potentially arming some teachers and staff — also ignore that students of color, especially black students, are more likely to face discipline and punishment in schools than their white peers, and that many of these disparities could be exacerbated by recent proposals to arm teachers or increase school security.

They found similar disparities between 15 black executives and their white peers at the firm.

It was shortly after the housing crisis, when in October of 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto released an academic «White paper», titled, «Bitcoin: A Peer - to - Peer Electronic Cash System», to a small cryptographic community's web space.

Even as I was being chosen by my peers and coaches and teachers to be the captain of sports teams and academic clubs, even as I was embraced as a best friend and confidant, a very clear «Whites Only» sign still hung boldly over the «family room» in the white American house.

But a few began to feel uncomfortable about how their white middle - class peers viewed them.

Yet, in familiar American fashion, genuine white peer acceptance still seems to escape them.

The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism.

Western countries, especially America, may be targeted for critiques of overconsumption, but white students lead the charge and through it find camaraderie with their black, Hispanic, and Asian peers.

«Fewer than one in five African - American fourth graders is proficient in reading and Latino eighth graders are less than half as likely to be proficient in math as their white peers.»

Although Malcolm was an outstanding student and extremely popular among his peers, he dropped out of school when his white eighth grade English teacher discouraged him from becoming a lawyer and suggested carpentry as a more «realistic goal for a nigger.»

Late at night, splashing my face and neck, through sounds of water running I hear cruel cuts like pencil points fine sharpened snapping against a smooth white page.Quick rinsing, covered now and tense, all stiff, peering alarmed from broken privacy, I for a moment harden, with nor one clue, against....

Hushed to a sort of humming pax, My peers on kneelers proved they weren't too proud To flood the pews with something close to love — And sparge the solemn nave with grade - school titters When schadenfreude saw its perfect chance: Lace sleeves grew from his chasuble; the host Rose pale amidst the tabernacle's glitters, White ghost on gold.

They do join gospel choirs and (like their white peers) take part in fundamentalist movements, but these involvements call for action, not for reflection.

The blanket of white that greeted me was an unexpected shock as I peered through the kitchen...

Doby wasn't just the second black major leaguer; he was the first in the American League, meaning that, like Robinson, he took the field among all white peers.

The mass audience will not be able to relate to him, to assemble an image of him, to measure him against his peers as they do the white player.

The tall se √ ± ora, dressed in slacks and a sport shirt and missing absolutely nothing as she peered through a pair of white - rimmed sunglasses, led the way carefully into a shady glade and up a cliff to the edge of a small natural pool.

When we make our children aware of our experiences with racists, we scare them and deprive them of their innocence and opportunity to forge a resentment - free relationship with their white peers.

Dylan White peers into his crystal football in an attempt to figure out what the future may hold for the Red Devils in seasons to come with their new men at...

She also has white felt wings and little legs with striped tights, and she loves to dance (finger puppets with legs have so much more «life» than those without them), but she also is so cute peering out from the Christmas tree amidst sparkling white lights... An adorable decoration to ti

Currently crossbench peer Lord Hylton, who sports a long white Santa style beard, is competing at the top of the poll with Labour backbencher Ian Murray who only stopped shaving in the summer.

The small group of attendees, which included a mix of long - time supporters and curious onlookers, spent the evening sipping free glasses of red and white wine — presumably courtesy of Mr. Spitzer — as reporters and tabloid photographers peered in at them through floor - to - ceiling window glass outside.

CM Eric Ulrich of CD 32 in Queens, covering Howard Beach and the western (white) end of the Rockaways, is popular in his district and well - regarded by his peers.

In Syracuse, black and multiracial students slightly outperformed their white peers when it came to graduation rates.

Many of them already find the odds stacked against them: the poor white boys who struggle through school; the young black men who are twice as likely to be unemployed as their peers; the children growing up in the poorest neighbourhoods.

Blair's second Queen's speech was dominated by the question of Lords reform, mention of which by the monarch resulted in «an unprecedented ripple of disapproval from peers, calls of «Shame» mingling with «Hear, hears» from assembled MPs», as Michael White reported.

The remaining hereditary peers would be removed, but the white paper leaves open whether they would be removed at one stroke or allowed a gradual removal by «natural wastage».

The white paper calls for 20 % of peers to be elected by the public and the axing of the 92 hereditary peers.

The most recent state testing data showed that the percent of Erie County black students considered proficient in English was 31 percentage points lower than their white peers, compared to a 20 - point gap statewide.

In the UK, Sebastian (now Lord) Coe went from leading track - and - field athlete to Conservative politician and life peer in the House of Lords, while former Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell was once known as «the fastest white man on the planet» and held the British 100m record.

«THE STUDY FOUND THAT BLACK AND LATINO STUDENTS HAVE HALF THE NUMBER OF ADVANCED PLACEMENT CLASSES compared to their white and Asian peers, according to data from 353 high schools in the 2011 - 2012 academic year.

Standardized test results for the last school year showed slight growth at the state and local levels in both English and math, and a slight narrowing of the gap between black and Hispanic public school students and their white peers.

Paul White - the Conservative peer Lord Hanningfield - is accused of «dishonestly» submitting claims «for expenses to which he knew he was not entitled» - including overnight stays in London.

On January 12, AAAS responded to a Request for Information by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on public access to peer - reviewed publications resulting from federally - funded research.

When Nadeau entered the looming white building and peered into the barracks, she saw children piled onto rows of Army - style bunk beds — and among them, adults who had seeded the outbreak and were crowded out of their own quarters.

Yet the report notes that a longitudinal survey of freshmen finds «underrepresented minorities aspire to major in STEM in college at the same rate as their white and Asian - American peers, and have done so since the last 1980s.»