Sentence examples for small disadvantaged from inspiring English sources

Small disadvantaged businesses (generally minority-owned) hit a record level.

The inspector general investigated the contract — 90percentt of the agency's budget to provide advice and training to small disadvantaged businesses seeking to win government contracts — at the request of the House Small Business Committee.

This is a program intended to help small, disadvantaged businesses — particularly those owned by minorities — by providing business training coupled with opportunities for no-bid contracts set aside just for them.

As part of the wider USAid Forward reform, the agency says it will work to increase the number of contracts awarded to small, disadvantaged, and women-owned businesses in the US, and will take steps to engage more directly with small non-profits both in the US and abroad.

As recently as last week, the SBA suspended taking applications for the government's Small Disadvantaged Business contracting program.

That small, disadvantaged communities face greater compliance challenges highlights the need for appropriate regulatory measures and technical support.

Siblings had been cross-fostered to nests where they were either slightly larger (advantaged treatment) or slightly smaller (disadvantaged treatment) than their competitors.

Quartets of chicks had been taken from their natal nests soon after hatching, and cross-fostered, two to a nest where they were slightly larger than the other chicks (advantaged treatment), and the other two to a nest where they were slightly smaller (disadvantaged treatment).

President Bill Clinton appointed Mr. Neal in 1996 as director of the Pentagon office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, which helps minority-owned businesses obtain contracts.

Qualtec, says Nancy Tarrant, director of small and disadvantaged business utilization for the Navy, "is a big success story".

But let's be clear: If a voter initiative can deny LGBT people access to traditional representative democratic processes, then in California, any other small, historically disadvantaged minority group can also be denied the right of traditional representation.