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1023 examples of Minority in a sentence

Citizens are coarsened by the casual brutality meted out to a minority, and become inured to it.
So it resorted to the mass abduction, murder, rape, and enslavement of women, especially among the minority Yazidis.
Moreover, in the Pakistani province of Waziristan, three Sikhs, a minority in Pakistan, were abducted.
The only alternatives to a Jamaica coalition are a CDU/CSU minority government or a new election next spring, which would probably only strengthen the AfD’s position.
But, in comparing groups, it is permitted to use an individual’s status as member of an under-represented minority in his or her favor.
We cannot be pacifists when people around the world live in fear of mass murder because they belong to a particular ethnic or religious minority, believe in the “wrong” ideology, or live in vulnerable countries alongside revanchist powers.
It was not far-fetched to imagine a country in which a small Arab minority with full rights would exist among a Jewish majority.
But the Saudi dream of turning back the clock and to a minority Sunni-ruled Iraq made realistic diplomacy impossible.
A country should not be making fundamental, irreversible changes based on a razor-thin minority that might prevail only during a brief window of emotion.
Since ancient times, philosophers have tried to devise systems to try to balance the strengths of majority rule against the need to ensure that informed parties get a larger say in critical decisions, not to mention that minority voices are heard.
First, unlike hybrid tribunals in East Timor, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone, international judges are a minority.
According to Harvard’s Benjamin Friedman, prolonged periods of economic distress have been characterized also by public antipathy toward minority groups or foreign countries – attitudes that can help to fuel unrest, terrorism, or even war.
Bringing in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia would strengthen stability in the Baltic area, because the rules of the game would be crystal clear to everyone, both with regard to security and to human and minority rights.
But the adjournment did not come before a routine courtesy greeting to the visiting Speaker of Sri Lanka’s parliament was interrupted by Tamil MPs from a regional party, who rose to their feet to shout demands for his expulsion because of his government’s behavior towards that country’s Tamil minority.
It does not help when some of those trapped in the poor ghettos surrounding major cities – however small a minority – become tempted by violence and fall prey to terrorist recruiters.
Some of these ordinances grant new rights to the country’s 1.7 million Hungarian minority, as promised in the Romanian-Hungarian Treaty of 1996.
Ethnic minority students in Romania may now take university entrance exams in their native tongues and the Hungarian-language Bolyai university in Cluj, closed since the late 1950s, is to be reopened.
But criticism came not only from the enemies of minority rights.
When a “hot” issue like minority rights is at stake, the Ciorbea government cannot even rely on its own supporters.
As long as this attitude endures, any reform-minded government has little chance to mobilize enough parliamentary and public support to carry on its liberal policies toward the Hungarian minority.
True democrats rightly feel uncomfortable enhancing minority civil rights without parliament’s express consent.
Women still lag in leadership positions, holding only 5% of top corporate positions and a minority of positions in elected legislatures (just 16% in the US, for example, compared to 45% in Sweden).
Nor is it by any means certain that the human capital of the majority can be increased faster than that of the minority, who capture all of the educational advantages flowing from superior wealth, family conditions, and connections.
Investing in road infrastructure tends to be regressive in societies where only a minority own automobiles.
Alas, companies started robbing minority shareholders by all means possible.
By manipulating product prices, they transferred profits to enterprises with no minority shareholders.
A tiny minority of such men might lash out in desperation.
The minority is then bound by the agreement.
Resolving Kosovo’s status is also a necessity for the province’s Serb minority, who continue to live in uncertainty, not knowing whether to look to Belgrade or Pristina for protection of their rights.
Relations between Kosovo’s Albanian majority and Serb minority remain uneasy.
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