Sentence examples for from a minority background from inspiring English sources

I was a bit surprised that somebody who represents a London constituency from a minority background would think Scandinavia is the way to go.

For all the scorn thrown at Hollande this week, his government is achieving parity – 20 men, 19 women (and seven are from a minority background).

Hamilton said the university had "a much more diverse community than you may be encouraged to believe from media stereotypes", with 20% of students from a minority background.

However, as with women, this proportion dropped off higher up the ranks, with only 11% of senior managers coming from a minority background.

53% of people from a minority background believed they had been treated differently because of their hair, clothes or appearance, compared with 29% of white people.

With minorities accounting for 13% of the population, only about 130 participants in a nationally representative poll of the same size would be from a minority background.

There is a good mix between centers with an average number of women from an ethnic minority background (BME) and centers with a high percentage of women from a BME background (St Jan Hospital Brussels and OLV hospital Aalst-site Asse).

The same goes for Baroness Warsi – one of the few senior Tories who is either a woman or from an ethnic minority background – when she held up a spoof newspaper slamming an "Eton mess" on ITV's The Agenda.

Nonetheless, as a prominent journalist from an ethnic minority background, he views diversifying as a necessary if not sufficient step and "the only hope" as new media, forcing broadcasters to follow their lead.

In some council wards, as many as 85% of the population come from a single minority background, and most of these high minority concentrations are deprived Pakistani or Bangladeshi heritage communities.

Adolescent adoptees from an ethnic minority background different from that of their adoptive parents can face unique challenges to their psychosocial adjustment that may include, for some, a sense of marginality and low self-esteem.