Sentences with phrase «with powerful minorities»

At the moment the political machine just seems to flow with powerful minorities or public opinion (influenced often by the media).

Not exact matches

The latter is very powerful and has given us our present level of technology with all of its comforts, but these advances were created by a small minority.

This wild confusion is present in the minds of a small but financially powerful minority, though a much larger part of the population has a tendency to hold rigid ideas about the kinds of economic institutions in other nations with which we should cooperate.

They control the majority of the World's wealth and arguably are one of the most powerful blocks in the world, hardly a quality one would associate with a «minority» Perhaps the millions of non Christians who lost land or culture (not to mention millions of lives) as a result of Christian nations colonizing the World justifiably would call this headline atrocious as it simply is historically untrue if one looks at the World over the past 300 or so years and it ignores the reality of suffering brought forth by a particular religion that seeks to change all people to any one particular religion.

With the right circumstances of social discourse, education, media coverage, and so on - powerful or interested minorities make people believe or support one thing or the other, and they vote accordingly.

About 25 Wall Street executives, many of them hedge fund managers, sat down for a private meeting Thursday afternoon with two of the most powerful Republican lawmakers in Congress: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and John Cornyn, the senior senator from Texas who runs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, one of the primary fundraising arms of the Republican Party.

«As promised, House Minority Leader John Boehner, along with Reps. Aaron Schock (R - IL) and Peter Roskam (R - IL), huddled this morning with representatives of the most powerful conservative business and trade groups in the country to field policy ideas and build a legislative agenda ahead of the November elections, when Republicans could retake the House.

With Sen. Harry Reid retiring at the end of this year, his lieutenant, Sen. Charles Schumer will serve as Senate Democratic Minority Leader, becoming the most powerful Democrat in Congress.

Like punk's appropriation of West Indian reggae, the white B - boys with their hip - hop and baggy jeans and the young girls curled up with copies of «The Diary of Anne Frank,» the new X-Men made sense of mainstream teen alienation by appropriating the experiences of minority groups coping with much more powerful and genuine forms of discrimination.

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.

It was a leftist flourish - standing with the Third World, standing against the powerful Christians and with the downtrodden minorities, etc., etc..