Sentence examples for minority agencies from inspiring English sources

A former aide recalled that Mr. Little believed the assessment system discriminated against the minority agencies.

Two other minority agencies, responsible for hundreds of children, were shuttered and their officials convicted of stealing money.

The official said what mattered most about minority agencies were their executive directors, and the values they espoused.

The idea of recruiting foster parents from the same neighborhoods as the children coming under their care had been a central aim of the city's new minority agencies.

By 1997, the city had come up with a reform plan that benefited the minority agencies that were in the city's poorest neighborhoods.

Had officials closed them, the city, whose foster children were almost entirely black and Latino, would have been left with just two minority agencies.

A senior city official, though, said that during Mr. Medina's tenure, the city indeed considered St. Christopher's a minority agency.

Mr. Medina and two former board members now say that the city had not formally regarded St. Christopher's as a minority agency, and that it was "open to question" whether it was fair to group it with the others.

About 12percentt of the professional staff members of the Directorate of Operations, the espionage arm where Mr. Sterling worked, are members of minorities, agency officials said.

Worse still, the unwillingness of DoD officials to answer the most basic questions is symptomatic of a simple fact – in their unswerving mission to defend an increasingly unpopular global system serving the interests of a tiny minority, security agencies have no qualms about painting the rest of us as potential terrorists.

The New York Times spent months examining the investment in minority-run agencies — what once seemed a bold and overdue shift in one of the most challenging areas of social policy.