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1023 examples of Minority in a sentence

Mbeki is culpable, not for having initially entertained a view held by a tiny minority of scientists, but for having clung to this view without allowing it to be tested in fair and open debate among experts.
Islam’s European HopeMADRID – Mohamed Merah’s killing spree in and around Toulouse in March, like the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the 2005 suicide attacks in London’s Underground, has highlighted once again the dilemmas that Europe faces with regard to its growing Muslim minority.
Any religious minority in quest of a place in the European project would do well to reflect on that theological shift.
There is a clear status benefit to the minority; no obvious harm is being done to the majority; and the long-term consequences are unfathomable.
In the US, President-elect Barack Obama seems to have the charisma to create this, and his status as the first minority president marks a major historical transition that might have great positive psychological impact in the US and around the world.
He would show them how the Jewish state, created by Holocaust survivors and now led by one, would come to the rescue of a Christian minority threatened with destruction.
The UN’s Human Rights Council would not have dared to put Russia in the dock for razing Grozny, Chechnya’s capital, or China for brutally suppressing the people of Tibet and the Muslim Uighur minority.
Some people – so far still a minority – are fascinated by this new knowledge, and take the results for granted.
In the east, there was a strong sense of being Bengali, and a sizeable Hindu minority continued to live in the province.
But it is Kazakhstan’s strong secular tradition, inherited from its Soviet past, and a very large European Christian minority (approximately 40% of its 15.2 million people) that make it a society that the West needs to encourage, given the Islamic arc of instability upon which it sits.
Mill thought that there is a big minority of people who tend to seek higher pleasures and that to be active in democratic politics is one of such pleasure.
In particular, there is a growing danger of Sunni retaliation against the Alawite minority, which comprises 12% of the population, but controls the government, the economy, and the army.
Only a small minority of states in Asia, for example, are true democracies.
Spearheaded by this minority, the scientific revolution swept through Europe and, later, spread to the rest of the world.
The independent board members would constitute only a small minority, but their presence and professional expertise would give them disproportionate weight.
The cultural rights of the large Kurdish minority, including the right to use their own language, had advanced greatly.
By supporting Shia forces beyond its borders – particularly Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s minority Alawite regime, as well as some of the worst of the Shia militias in Iraq – Iran has aroused the Arab world against it and empowered Sunni Arab extremists.
In Asia, the persecution of the Muslim Rohingya minority in Myanmar has contributed to a recent increase in the number of refugees.
Arm some of these manufactured minority structures so that they can demand autonomy at the barrel of a gun, and you get the kind of chaos the Kremlin can use to reassert its control.
The test for Viktor Yushchenko and his Orange revolutionaries, as it was for Lithuania’s democrats in 1990-91, is to show that democracy does not mean that the majority suppresses any minority.
Despair not only for the victims of violence, but for the cynicism of those politicians, such as Gujarat's Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who seek to justify lawlessness, violence and even murder of minority members by the majority Hindus.
Moreover, it has been noted for tolerance: not only Muslims, but of Parsees (a minority community from Persia who practice Zorastrianism).
Portraying US companies as innocent victims of Chinese pressure is certainly at odds with my own experience as an active participant in Morgan Stanley’s joint venture with the China Construction Bank (and a few small minority investors) to establish China International Capital Corporation in 1995.
Those who advocate violence are a minority in Pakistan, and will not stand in the way of our people’s betterment.
Being the minority, they can gain de jure political power only by introducing a non-democratic system.
In previous centuries, Western economic growth was characterized by a comparatively insignificant minority having unfettered access to resources, and was thus built on fueling consumption.
But these companies remain in the minority.
In other words, we are faced with the challenge of complexity, which requires us to ensure that a small minority is not joined by greater forces.
Libya’s new government allowed me access to civil-society actors – including journalists, academics, writers, activists, and representatives of minority groups – who were off limits to US diplomats under Qaddafi’s regime.
The 1848 uprisings around Europe were substantially a protest against voting laws that limited voting to only a minority of men: property holders or aristocrats.
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