Sentence examples for a heavy minority from inspiring English sources

It doesn't sound like the men were protesting the specific arrest, as much as this just being the latest example of a religious-based persecution between the Shi'ites (a heavy minority, accounting for only about 10% of the Muslim population in the country) and the Saudi Arabian government.

Because some of those high schools have heavy minority populations, a minority presence in the university system is assured.

But the memberships of 1199 and District Council 37 have heavy minority representation, and Mr. Hevesi has drawn critical reactions from some black audiences in recent months, in part because of his public criticism of the Rev. Al Sharpton over the last four years.

He also voiced concern that some states were putting "early voting" places in upscale malls and planning to allocate voting booths according to the 2010 elections, when Republican turnout was strong, rather than the 2008 elections, when Democratic turnout was robust, with unusually large turnout among heavy minority and student populations.

During most of that time, the Justice Department's Voting Section, which consists of three dozen or so lawyers who are responsible for enforcing the Voting Rights Act, had insisted that states in the South draw some legislative districts with heavy minority populations, so that African-Americans could be assured of representation.

The original eight states were chosen in part because they had community- and church-based breast cancer awareness programs, heavy minority interest, and what Sandler pragmatically terms "good connections" in both public and private sectors.

"Recruitment at Ivy League colleges is only a small part of a broad campaign that has a heavy focus on minority recruitment.

But rallying them is proving a challenge for the 58-year-old former Republican, who is facing a tight race against incumbent Governor Rick Scott and needs a heavy turnout by minority and liberal voters to deliver a major political prize to the Democrats.

Industry has made an effort to widen the hiring pool, and these efforts seem to have yielded a more diverse, albeit bottom-heavy, minority workforce.

This has led the legal scholars Amanda Geller and Jeffrey Fagan to label the city's marijuana campaign "a racial tax" because it takes a heavy toll on minorities, while bringing little or nothing in the way of crime reduction.

But he added that "there is such a heavy bias against any minority point of view in cosmology that it may take a very long time for this to occur".