Sentence examples for ethnic person from inspiring English sources

Looking for a short, fat or ethnic person is a waste of time.

"Every time an ethnic person comes on screen, 50,000 people change the channel".

During that era, my daylight hours were all crummy cubicle life in an office where I was the sole "ethnic person".

And yet there are pressures too from the wider society, which also seems to expect every successful ethnic person to pull his community up with him or at the very least, to "represent" and speak on behalf of it.

Today, the highest-paid actress on American television is Colombian Sofia Vergara – but, says Baccarin, "Ten years ago you would rarely see an ethnic person in any lead role, unless that role was explicitly ethnic – say, Jennifer Lopez playing a Hispanic character.

Mubenga's death is one of more than 500 since 1991 documented in a forthcoming Institute of Race Relations report, entitled Dying for Justice, in which a black or minority ethnic person has died as a result of interaction with police or prison or immigration officers or their private proxies.

Among those earning the top 24 salaries there was not a single ethnic minority person.

I would like all of the cabinet to commit to something pretty simple: to have an ethnic minority person as their shadow for a significant period of time so they can experience what politics is about.

Only 4% of doctors, 6% of barristers, 11% of journalists and 12% of solicitors come from working-class backgrounds; women earn 14% less than men; and only one in 16 top management positions are held by an ethnic minority person.

The British actor David Harewood has joined in a chorus of criticism over the lack of an Oscar nomination for a black or ethnic minority person by calling on those who attend next month's award ceremony to do so in "black face" in protest.

"If there is any allegation by any black or ethnic minority person against white police officers, they have gone in completely the opposite direction to the point where it is actually the white officers getting discriminated against.