Sentence examples for pick minority from inspiring English sources

Those who defend practices like those of the Texas Department claim that they do not intentionally promote segregation but that developers pick minority and low-income communities for subsidized housing, not to purposely reinforce segregation, but because such communities are convenient for prospective tenants who live nearby.

Lawmakers, experts and activists who spoke with The Huffington Post identified a lack of infrastructure to recruit African-American candidates as a major problem, along with troubles raising money and convincing the party establishment and voters to pick minority candidates.

If Lennon has no claim to blackness and has simply chosen to identify as such, then he has erased the identities of those who cannot choose, adding himself to a growing number of white people who cherry-pick minority identities like costumes that can be discarded at will.

"Pick your minority group," he said.

A week later, the mayor said the city would take away the taxis of drivers who were caught refusing to pick up minority passengers.

Mr. Gilbert cited the problem of taxicab drivers who refuse to pick up minority passengers or those heading outside of Manhattan to illustrate the commission's dilemma.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani announced an undercover sting operation yesterday that will take away the cabs of drivers who refuse to pick up minority passengers.

"If there is no black or Latino on the Democratic ticket, I think there'll be a lot of pressure to pick a minority member for speaker," George Arzt, a veteran Democratic political consultant, said.

He said they had promised to resign their freeholders' seats if elected, so that, in a county where the party nomination is tantamount to election, he could pick two minority candidates to replace them.

NYCAL also allows plaintiff attorneys to effectively pick the minority of cases that will ultimately be set for trial but only after defendants have been forced to prepare for all of them, expending time and money obtaining documents and deposing witnesses.

When presented with the choice of whether they wanted a representative who would work with Paul Ryan or Pelosi, six in 10 picked the Speaker and three in 10 picked the minority leader.