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Privatization advanced, nationalists were constrained, relations with our big Hungarian minority improved, the country stood with the West during the Kosovo war.
One sign that he actually will institute reform will be demonstrated by whether or not the PDSR governs alone or in coalition with a centrist/liberal party or with the Hungarian minority party.
Trump, by contrast, has appealed primarily to the minority that elected him.
Likewise, launching initial public offerings on European stock exchanges has strengthened Russian corporations’ governance, social responsibility, and treatment of minority shareholders.
As a result, the strategies employed by McDonald’s and other brands could affect the health of immigrants and minority groups more than that of other segments of the US population.
Even as fast-food chains have become a lightning rod for criticism on the topic of obesity, they continue to attract consumers within America’s tight-knit minority communities, particularly among their young people, who are less likely to reach their full potential if they are burdened by health problems associated with obesity.
And, as US marketing campaigns focus on first-generation consumers – those raised on Big Macs abroad, without knowledge of the associated health risks – some members of minority groups now spend a substantial portion of their disposable income at fast-food restaurants.
This otherwise successful minority group must not become mired in the consequences of an unhealthy diet, especially at a time when the majority of the population is more aware than ever of the dangers.
Chronic pain is difficult to treat; even the most effective medications provide only modest relief to a minority of patients.
Political survival is one reason: when in a minority, the option of pressing for an Islamic state, with all its undemocratic potential is closed.
Rather than leading rich-country savers to invest their money in poor countries out of greed, liberalization of capital flows has led poor-country savers to park their money in rich countries out of fear – fear of political instability, macreconomic disturbances, and deficient institutions (especially those that protect the rights of bondholders and minority shareholders).
The knowledge that one’s country terrorized a minority to the point that its members had to flee, or that a substantial share of one’s forebears arrived in defeat and panic, is not exactly an inspiring source of national identity.
Or should the new states be delineated according to local ethnic identities, giving minority groups a sense of ownership of at least part of the country?
The opposition parties have gained wide support for their position, with Nepal's largest media organizations, key civil-society leaders, minority activists, and women's groups all opposing the ruling coalition's effort to railroad a constitution through the Constituent Assembly.
India, too, supports an inclusive approach, having recognized from its own experience of managing diversity the importance of providing minority groups with a sense of security.
Put all of this together, and it is like slamming a door in the face of young minority men looking for work.
France has simply failed to incorporate minority citizens – many of them third-generation immigrants who have been educated for twenty years in assimilationist public schools.
However, so long as second- and third-generation minority citizens are taught that the only acceptable cultural identity is French, but are not in fact accepted as French – indeed, are blocked from enjoying the full rights of French citizenship – the Republican model will fuel alienation rather than democratic integration.
Democracy entails not only majority rule, but also minority rights.
Such “revisionists” were a distinct minority, which is a good thing, as there is no reason to believe that the Soviets and Communism were a benign force.
NEW YORK – The centenary of the genocide carried out by the Ottoman government against its minority Armenian population in their historic homeland, which lies in present-day Turkey, will be observed on April 24.
In Israel, an Israeli Arab-Palestinian minority has full citizenship, even if much remains to be done to afford it full social and economic equality.
It is possible that in the Palestinian state there would be a small Jewish minority, consisting of West Bank settlers whose attachment to the Biblical homeland is so intense that they would be willing to live under Palestinian control – provided that the Palestinians would grant them Palestinian citizenship.
In the parliament, a vocal but fragmented minority of critics, cranks, and bigots is likely to push the center-right and center-left groups, which still have a combined majority, to club together even more closely.
It will also undercut the credibility of the liberal order, which was founded on tolerance for diversity and minority groups.
Syria has many minorities whose numbers are too small to secure representation through the ballot box, and thus need to be protected by other means, such as political arrangements and institutions aimed explicitly at guaranteeing minority rights.
The first pillar of democracy may be majority rule, but it is a hollow – and unstable – achievement if the second pillar, minority rights, is not also put in place.
In addition to economic populism, a significant minority of the population also feels threatened by cultural changes related to race, culture, and ethnicity, even though much of this is not new.
The Kurds in CommandEAST LANSING, MICHIGAN – In a remarkable change of fortune, Turkey’s long-marginalized Kurdish minority is poised to play a pivotal role in the country’s politics.
For the first time in the Republic’s history, 365 landholdings and buildings belonging to the minority communities were legally registered under their name.
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