Sentences with phrase «year over minority»

The seven - term Democrat backed Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan for leader this year over Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

Not exact matches

The program has been an important one for thousands of minority entrepreneurs over the past few years.

Although several companies have launched the following four strategies over the last several years, they're still a minority and few of them are doing all four:

Flipkart's valuation by some of its minority investors over the past one year has ranged from $ 5.57 billion to $ 10 billion.

Over the past 16 years W Capital has pioneered this approach to minority investing, building an incredible portfolio, team and culture that I'm fortunate to be part of.»

Uber also has committed $ 3 million over the next three years to support organizations focused on underrepresented minorities and women in tech.

«Since Hughes became the Chief Purchasing Officer ten years ago, The Procter & Gamble has spent over twenty billion dollars with minority - owned suppliers,» said NMSDC president, Joset Wright - Lacy.

Against this backdrop, activist investment firm JCP Investment Management took up a significant minority stake in Fiesta over the past year, and JCP is now spearheading a shareholder group that is pushing for a boardroom shakeup.

-- the current price at 12,35 EUR is ~ 1/3 lower than the expired take - over offer from Deutsche Annington 6 weeks ago — although the share will be delisted by the end of the year, I do believe that a squeeze - out under Luxembourg law is very likely within the next 12 - 18 months close to the initial offer price (~ 50 % upside from current price)-- the downside is that following November, the stock will be unlisted and hard to sell and that for some reason the Acquirer Deutsche Annington will not squeeze out the remaining minorities

But, Prodromou notes, there hasn't been any appreciable improvement of the situation for Orthodox Christians (and other religious minorities) in Turkey over the last year:

This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

The country has long been considered a model of tolerance, but religious tensions in the past few years — including the demolition of 20 churches, protests over attacks on Christians by Islamist extremists, and a law requiring minority religious groups to collect signatures from local majority groups before building churches — highlight the country's increasing struggles to maintain harmony between its religious groups.

Sadly our culture has been destroyed by the French government over the years, as was the case for every European ethnic minority in the French territory.

He told Premier: «Some Pakistani government ministers and court lawyers have tried to deal with this [persecution in Pakistan] but actually one or two of them have been executed over the years, just because they stood up for a minority, i.e. for the Christians there.

But barring a substantial and unexpected cultural shift inside the Church over the next few years, churches who hold a traditional or complementarian view look set to become a shrinking minority.

Eshhad calculates that attacks on Christians accounted for about 89 % of all attacks against religious minorities in Egypt over the past year, 17 of which were committed by Islamic State or its north African affiliate, Wilayat Sinai.

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.

Evergreen Park, once an enclave of whites, has slowly integrated over the years, and it is now roughly 20 - percent 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 fans.

I'm pretty sure that running a small deficit would be acceptable, and I wonder if the minority owners can stretch out the losses over the years, rather than having to swallow the hit.

Related Article: Minority to quiz Foreign Minister over Libyan slave situation The North African country has for years been the gateway for Africans who are trying to get to Europe by sea.

In the face of a string of Tory reversals, all down to his opposition, Labour MPs from across the party — from Blairites to the soft left — have been won over by his leadership skills, despite the minority of plotters and the «mainstream media» who rudely reprinted all the things he's said over the years about the IRA, Hamas, Kosovo, Iran, Israel, etc..

«Despite significant progress over the last few years, the volume of business won by ethnic minority owned businesses in the UK remains small,» said Sara Todd, chair of Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) and executive director at Merck Sharp & Dohmminority owned businesses in the UK remains small,» said Sara Todd, chair of Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) and executive director at Merck Sharp & DohmMinority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) and executive director at Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD).

«Justice Atuguba has seniority over me because instead of continuing straight from the fourth year as we used to call it, of law school, to the fifth year which is the professional year or rather the final part of the professional course, I broke and went to do my master's so when I came back they — my first classmates — had already been called to the bar so I was called to the bar with Ato Dadzie and that younger generation,» she told parliament's Appointment Committee on Friday, 16 June when Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu asked her to clarify to the committee whether she or Justice Atuguba was senior to the other.

For the past 40 years, Sheldon Silver ruled over the 65th Assembly District, commonly referred to as a majority - minority district.

Sobrino wrote that «under Governor Cuomo's leadership, there has been a dramatic increase in the participation of minority - and women - owned businesses in state contracting from 10 percent in 2011 to more than 20 percent over the past several years.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government should be apologizing to Ghanaians for its inability to fully implement the free secondary education policy as promised over the years, the Minority in Parliament has stated.

Many of Mr. Schneiderman's proposals have passed the Assembly in various forms over the years, only to founder in the State Senate, where they have enjoyed support from the Democratic minority but not the GOP majority.

Risk factors for prediabetes include having a large waist or being overweight; being of Black or South Asian origin; having a family history of the condition; and being over 40 years old, or over 25 if you're Black, Asian or from an ethnic minority group.

For over 47 years, we've been raising money for minority youth entering college.

«The failure to protect the progress that schools, teachers and young people from minority ethnic communities have made over recent years risks leaving another generation of young black and Asian people unable to maximise their potential and their contribution to society.

Ms Turnely continued: «In the face of the government's campaign to broaden access to universities, elite public schools have actually increased the number of pupils they send to Oxbridge over the last five years, whilst ethnic minority students are twice as likely to attend modern universities than traditional universities.»

A day after U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions» resignation over his contact with the Russian ambassador last year, Trump sniped back in a tweet that included a photo of the senator eating doughnuts with with Russian President Vladimir Putin and called for an investigation into their relationship.

On Wednesday, Schumer, a Democrat and the Senate Minority Leader, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, announced a two - year budget agreement that increases military and non-defense spending by $ 300 billion over the next two years and includes more than $ 80 billion in disaster relief.

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.

Popular commentary in the past year has focused on the Party's difficulty in winning the support of aspirational C2 voters, as well as the difficulty in winning larger numbers of ethnic minority voters over to the Conservatives.

Walden took over the campaign arm of House Republicans earlier this year, and said one of his priorities will be to reach out to minorities.

Schuler also took exception to data contained in state records that appear to show that LPCiminelli lags behind the other contractors in hiring minorities over the first year of the job.

(Democrats, in New York and elsewhere, have accused Republicans over the years of using ballot security to intimidate voters, particularly minority voters.)

The governor's office told the Observer that the MTA's utilization of so - called «minority and women - owned business enterprises» has increased by more than 60 percent during his time in office, resulting in more than $ 1 billion in contracts awarded to MWBEs over the past seven years — with more than $ 300 million in fiscal year 2015 - 2016 alone.

Over the past years, with the support of minorities waning within the Republican Party, the Reform Party has made moves to capture disenfranchised minority voters.

But in the state Senate, where Democrats are hobbled by a redistricting plan drawn by Senate Republican lawmakers (and signed off on by Cuomo) and the poor image of dysfunction and corruption from their time in control, the minority conference still holds out hope that the presidential election year will help put them over the top.

In New Zealand, over recent years, the largest party has typically formed a minority government loosely supported by a number of smaller parties.

At a time when rent - stabilized tenants in New York City are enjoying a freeze in their rents, another group of regulated tenants — the dwindling minority in rent - controlled apartments — is facing an increase of up to 9.6 percent over the next two years.

The Brooklyn native also is poised to take over as head of the party's caucus in the U.S. Senate Democrats next year following the retirement of Minority Leader Harry Reid after the election.

At a founding meeting of the pro-stadium Hudson Yards Coalition four years ago, Jerry I. Speyer, a developer and a minority owner of the Yankees, warned the group that building over the West Side railyards was folly because of community opposition, potential lawsuits and environmental regulations.

In all, the working group recommended 42 changes, though left out are some of the headline reforms the Assembly's Republican Minority hasn't been able to get approved over the past two years.

Cuomo has taken steps over the past year to move to the political left and shore up support, particularly with unions and minorities.

In Nevada, which has the only Democratic - held Senate seat being aggressively fought over this year, strategists in both parties say Republicans have an advantage in the race to succeed Harry Reid, the minority leader.

Addressing a press conference in Goaso on Tuesday, the Minority Spokesman on Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu - Afriyie Akoto, said government has over the years been implementing misguided policies and poor projects in the sector which employs about 60 % of the Ghanaian population.