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Minority in sentence

1023 examples of Minority in a sentence

First, in my country, I helped Tutsi refugees from Rwanda, where they were a minority, fight a war against the Hutu majority there.
It noted that “borrowers at risk of significant mortgage payment increases remained a small minority, concentrated mostly among higher-income households that were aware of the attendant risks,” and concluded that “indications are that credit and risk allocation mechanisms in the U.S. housing market have remained relatively efficient.”
Similarly, it wants to sow discord among European religious and minority communities themselves (the Sunni-Shia and Sunni-Alevi divide being two clear examples).
But this is the view of only a small minority of leaders, notably former Prime Minister Abu Mazin and Muhammad Dahlan, who heads his own militia in the Gaza Strip.
Disclosure standards improved throughout the Continent, as did laws to protect minority shareholders.
Likewise, its political and legal system is authoritarian, and its numerous minority problems remain unsolved.
All the while, Assad was describing the violence as the product of terrorists and Sunni extremists seeking dominion over minority Alawites, Druze, Kurds, Christians, and other groups.
In 1995, opinion polls showed that only a minority of the country felt “British,” while many groups – namely young people, ethnic minorities, Londoners, Scots, and Welsh – felt poorly represented.
White, English, working-class men over the age of 55 feel particularly excluded from the progressive version of patriotism, and fear becoming a minority in their “own” country.
A Republican minority in the Senate can still effectively limit her agenda by using the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to end a floor debate and bring a bill to a vote.
Gaining a few Indian computer specialists is a bad reason for allowing "green card" access, if only because such migrants are likely to remain a tiny minority of newcomers.
With the earlier pillars having collapsed, the emergence of a new one would bring about a situation where an increasingly integrated majority would be negotiating with a minority, thus perpetuating its isolation in the process.
Ordinarily, you might expect House Republicans to blink at this stage of the negotiations, but there is a hardline minority that actually appears to think that defaulting on government debt would not be a bad thing.
Those who voted affirmatively were only a tiny minority.
More importantly, they were members of a tiny minority that had been educated in the written heritage of Islam.
The unfolding crisis in Bangkok – where a political minority has taken to the streets to bring down Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s democratically elected government – is a case in point.
But the minority – which comprises up to two-fifths of the electorate – is at a loss.
At the same time, majorities should not view an electoral victory as a license to act without regard for minority concerns.
To this end, Thailand urgently needs a new social contract that allows elected representatives to do their jobs, without marginalizing the establishment-based minority.
But Europeans must admit that these individuals represent a small minority.
Moreover, India can claim a great deal of pride in the fact that the last two presidents were from minority populations – one from the lowest of castes (Harijan, formerly referred to as “untouchables”), and another one from the Muslim community.
American) control, thus any attempt at staging a coup, or stirring up trouble between Romanians and our sizeable Hungarian minority, can be prevented.
Two generations ago, only a small minority of the daughters of the elite received a university education.
Indeed, a substantial minority of young women in Egypt and other Arab countries have now spent their formative years thinking critically in mixed-gender environments, and even publicly challenging male professors in the classroom.
It is when the rewards of economic progress accrue mainly to the already wealthy that the disjunction between minority and majority cultural values becomes seriously destabilizing.
It would be free to adjust its border with one neighbor or come to the rescue of a Russian-speaking minority “held hostage” by another.
Economic growth without social justice merely prolongs the denial of decent living conditions to the majority of Africa’s people for the benefit of a tiny rich minority.
In a fractured country with few civil-society institutions and many ethnic and religious groups, will minority rights be protected?
But they are in the minority, and even they can have problems, because depreciation reduces the dollar value of their domestic assets, causing breaches in loan covenants and potentially impairing access to credit.
An independent Kurdistan could rouse Iran’s seven-million-strong Kurdish minority, while Iran’s Sunni minority (some 10% of the population) includes militant elements that could mobilize against the government.
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