Sentence examples for of African background from inspiring English sources

In 2011, the French Federation of Football was accused of applying quotas in training schools in order to have fewer players of African background.

The one silver lining is that minorities, obviously, do not vote as a monolithic block; while only 6% of African background voted Tory, 24% of Indian background did.

Haile-Michael was one of 19 young people of African background who alleged they were assaulted, stopped and searched by police in Flemington and North Melbourne between 2005 and 2009.

In the original design the supporters were of African background, but now one is a mestizo, the other a mulatto (or "Creole," as the term is defined in Belize).

6 In March 2008, a schoolgirl of African background started to cough, and in June, she was diagnosed with sputum smear-positive TB.

Compared to Australian-born children of African background; African-born children were more likely to be referred for further dental care (adjusted PR 1.33, 95% CI [1.02 – 1.73]), although there was no statistically significant difference in caries prevalence.

Suggestions of an African or Sudanese gangs crisis are strongly disputed by Victoria police, who tell Guardian Australia that while young people of African backgrounds are overly represented in some high-harm crime, they only represent a small portion of offenders.

As mentioned previously, some MCH nurses reported difficulty engaging with clients of African backgrounds and felt that culturally specific training would be helpful.

Five men of North African background, three of them French citizens, were sentenced in Paris to prison terms of up to seven years for terrorism-related activities, including providing logistical support to the assassins of an Afghan warlord, Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was killed in 2001.

Kamel had grown up in the south of the country, in a family of North African background.

A young, working-class man of North African background, with a shaved head and wearing a parka and sneakers, speaks in thick banlieue slang on his cell phone, often with his back to us.