Sentences with phrase «years as minority»

Ohio Congressman - elect Steve Chabot was first elected as part of the GOP class of 1994, which helped give Republicans control of the House of Representatives after 40 years as the minority party.

Chairman Mills was first elected to the Legislature in 2005 and served seven years as Minority Leader.

George Pataki served in the state Assembly from 1987 through 2002 — the last four years as minority leader of the lower chamber.

Democrats in the state Senate gave Jennifer Shilling another two years as minority leader Tuesday, brushing aside a subpar performance at the ballot box that left Republicans with their largest majority in more than 40 years and uncertainty about whether Shilling will retain her own seat in the face of a recount.

Kolb said he's helped raise $ 18 million for the Republican Assembly Campaign Committee during his eight years as minority leader, and would make his case directly to party committee members around the state.

Not exact matches

For the last seven years he has served full - time as president of Cristo Rey Brooklyn HS, which educates minority students, mostly immigrants or first - generation Americans of modest means.

On Monday, JPMorgan Chase announced $ 2.2 million to support underserved and minority - owned businesses throughout the U.S. as part of the firm's three - year commitment from its Small Business Forward initiative.

It's a vocal minority that is gumming up the works, just as it did 20 years ago when Bill Clinton fought to pass NAFTA.

As the U.S. tracks toward having a minority majority population in the coming years, it is becoming clearer that a new normal is on the horizon.

By 2015, eight years into her tenure as the bank's chief human resources officer, women held two - fifths of those roles at RBC and visible minorities, 16 %.

As part of the arrangement that saw him relinquish Magna's reins last year, he insisted on receiving a controlling minority stake in Magna E-Car Systems, a nascent venture that's co-ordinating Magna's foray into electric vehicles.

«We will fight to defend them because they are about the health and economic security of America's working families, and we will not use Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security as an ATM machine for the Republicans to give tax breaks to their wealthy friends and corporate America,» House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at her year - end press conference, signaling that Democrats would not support cuts to Social Security and other entitlements.

The news comes as the first time in 37 years of the GSS, Americans in opposition to same sex relations were in the minority.

Diversity and entrepreneurship can be a very touchy subject as TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington found out last year when he commented publically on the relative lack of minority founders in Silicon Valley.

«As the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has emphasized, background checks have limited predictive value and can have a disparate impact on minority drivers,» Rogers wrote in a white paper on Uber that was published last year.

In addition, he's worked many years on Capitol Hill including as the Minority Staff Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

One might have thought the Martin government would remain in power for about as long as the two Pearson minorities — that is, nearly three years.

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.

The fact that none of these family offices reported targeting direct or co-investments above $ 5 million is also telling, as these California family offices unanimously prefer to make minority and small - to - middle - market deals, rather than executing some of the large deals that have been done by family offices and co-investment groups in recent years.

As a minority government for the past three years, the Conservatives could not govern with complete independence for fear of losing a vote of non-confidence in the House of Commons.

Twelve minority firms were honored as Regional Suppliers of the Year.

A uniquely designed year long program, created in partnership with McPherson Berry and MetLife as the title sponsor, EYE will provide the next generation of minority millennial entrepreneurs who will support the needs of corporate members, MBEs and additional stakeholders.

A significant development has been the persistently high rate of new firm formation in recent years as experienced women and minorities launch new firms at an accelerated pace.

The right to vote in this country for women and minorities would seem to be as obvious as the nose on your face, yet less than 100 years ago neither group enjoyed this right.

The charity said in a statement: «After years of calling for justice to be done to the victims of genocide in Iraq, the UN has at last heard a plea for the forgotten minorities such as Christians and Yazidis who have been erased from their homelands.

And countries from which a significant share of refugees in recent years have been persecuted religious minorities — such as Iran, where Christians and religious minorities have made up 95 percent of refugees in recent years — are blocked for at least 90 days and possibly longer.

«Blasphemy accusations in Pakistan are often used to settle petty vendettas and persecute minority groups,» said Kate Allen, UK Director of Amnesty International in December 2014, as part of a plea for the release of Mohammad Asghar, a 70 - year - old British Muslim grandfather also on death row.

The homosexual lobby has been very effective in aligning itself with minority groups, is prominently represented at the Holocaust memorial service [12] each year and has created an image of itself as a group of people under persecution.

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.

They may believe it is to their advantage to heighten polarization, thus constituting themselves as a minority bloc that can hold conservative politics hostage for years to come.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

People who think homosexuals should not have special legal entitlements as a minority group, parents who do not want their eight - year - olds instructed in the use of condoms, those who insist that abortion is very bad for unborn children and their mothers — bigots one and all.

In addition, our annual Christmas Party has been rebranded as an «End of Year Function», not because of a secularization of our company, but because the tiny Muslim minority threatened to boycott the event if it continued being referred to as a Christmas Party.

Mathematicians have calculated that within 100 years religion as we know it here in the states will only be practiced by a very small minority.

One thinks of the opposite extreme, as in a small minority of English schemes whereby First Confession, Confirmation and First Communion take place in a single year, in that order.

As compared with twenty years ago when religious interest was more largely funneled through nondenominational agencies, the churches are more active in making contacts with students and among a virile minority are securing a better response.

These facts along with the fact that for the first time a minority of young Britons now identify themselves as Christian means that if current trends continue, in the next 20 years or so there will be more Muslims in Britain than Christians.

As an extreme minority atheists have tortured and murdered more people in the last 100 years than were killed in all previous centuries.

In Hungary, as a phase of the revolutionary year of 1848, the Protestant minorities who had survived the persecution accompanying the Counter-Reformation were relieved of some of the legal disabilities from which they had suffered.

Never before, though, has this minority movement been able to dominate a medium to the virtual exclusion of other religious expressions as it has on television in recent years.

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.

Given the overwhelming evangelical ambience of the Sunbelt, however, and the safe assumption that the RCA must reflect that attitude in order to succeed in the area, it is not difficult to predict that what has been the dominant theological position of the church may very well in the next ten years become a minority one as the conservative evangelicalism of the new Sunbelt churches joins forces with the existing strength of that position in the midwest.

Throughout the years, San Joaquin Valley of California had seen a large influx of minorities who were accustomed to certain company profile meat products that were prevalent in the dishes of their home countries — such as pork feet, skin, ears, Golden Valley Industries www.goldenvalleyindustries.com snoots and tails; beef marrow bones; turkey necks Headquarters: Stockton, Calif. and smoked turkey parts — but were not readily availEmployees: 50 - 150 Specialty: Variety meats able in the mainstream American supermarket.

As a result of our supplier diversity program, in fiscal year 2014, we purchased 21 percent of our resources from diverse businesses (small businesses, women - owned businesses, minority - owned businesses and veteran - owned businesses).

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 fanAs 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 fanas a «tiny minority» of real Arsenal fans.

Just as there is nothing palatial about Selhurst Park, there was nothing regal about the Villans» performance yesterday nor was there anything noble about the behaviour of the minority of fans who showed a complete lack of respect for the minute's silence in memory of the ninety - six people who lost their lives at Hillsborough twenty - five years ago.

Just four years later, a group of concussion experts meeting in Zurich, adopted the minority position of the Prague experts, reaching a new consensus, one which considers concussions in sport as a single entity with a range of «modifying factors» instead of being classified as «simple» or «complex.»

I'm not saying that national breastfeeding month isn't a good thing, but as someone who is grouped with whites I don't have to fight tooth and nail for the same level of acceptance like «minorities» do when I choose to nurse a 2.5 year old in public.

Today, a growing minority — particularly among 9 - to 16 - year - olds — is interested in alternative or extreme sports such as Ultimate Frisbee, skateboarding and inline skating.

Heather, I live in Spain, I am a childbirth educator and gave birth at home here 3 years ago and just wanted to say that home - birth in this country is absolutely a tiny minority of the population, with the same kind of societal attitudes as North America, so this ad has created a big stir as you can imagine!!!