Minority
in example sentence
The order says that when the refugee program resumes, the Secretary of State shall, “to the extent permitted by law,” give priority to refugee claims on the basis of membership of a persecuted religious
minority
.
More example sentences with word minority
In Sri Lanka, a decades-long civil war between the Tamil
minority
and the Sinhala majority led to a bloody climax in 2009, after perhaps as many as 100,000 people had been killed since 1983.
Within that sphere, most of those nodes are not actionable, like the harshness of the terrain, and a very small
minority
are actual military actions.
And that all stems from the perception of atheists as some kind of weird, way-out
minority.
She clearly feels in a beleaguered
minority.
All example sentences
