Sentence examples for selected minority from inspiring English sources

Unlike remedial programs, which by their nature seek to remedy past wrongs and move beyond race-based preference, respondents' pursuit of a critical mass of selected minority students would justify such a policy in perpetuity.

He took a more oblique approach that attacked the law school program not so much for its premise as for how it works in practice, dismissing it as "a carefully managed program designed to ensure proportionate representation of applicants from selected minority groups".

The law school has offered no explanation for its actual admissions practices and, unexplained, we are bound to conclude that the law school has managed its admissions program, not to achieve a "critical mass," but to extend offers of admission to members of selected minority groups in proportion to their statistical representation in the applicant pool.

"In many cases, it means that the homosexual feels that he is almost a selected minority specially chosen and persecuted, and he sees within the wider community, for good or evil, more permissive attitudes".

4 These numbers are particularly sobering considering that they reflect the outcomes of a selected minority (<30%) of older patients with AML who were deemed "fit" to receive intensive therapy, and therefore, had a better prognosis.

Above all, they have been careful to select minority candidates.Ms Brown, the latest martyr on the filibuster rack, is a sharecropper's daughter who grew up in the segregated south, worked her way through law school in California, and is now on the California Supreme Court.

Instead, the top three factors selected by minority students were all career related (6 = True of Me): Career Opportunities (6.52), Job Security (6.30), and Salary Opportunities (6.29).

Ten clinical centers, out of a total of 40 throughout the United States, were selected as minority recruitment centers on the basis of their history of interaction with and access to large numbers of women from certain population subgroups.

Multiple births, low birth weight, and selected ethnic minority children, including American Indians, were oversampled.

Such variants may have been positively selected from minority variants undetected in the pretreatment sample or could represent superinfection during treatment.

An in-school questionnaire was administered to a nationally representative sample of students in grades 7 through 12, plus selected oversampled minority groups, stratified by age and sex, during the 1994 1995 school year in 132 schools.