Sentence examples for a powerless minority from inspiring English sources

This case, involving the literally vital interests of a powerless minority -- poor families without breadwinners -- is far removed from the area of business regulation, as the Court concedes.

The Republican machine flourished in Nassau and the Democratic organization withered, its members relegated to running hopeless races or occasionally winning office as part of a powerless minority.

Vodafone would still be a powerless minority owner and Verizon Communications would be back to resenting its partner sucking up dividends.

But sure enough, there were people in the audience insisting that Barney Frank, as part of a powerless minority in the House, nonetheless somehow caused the housing bubble and the whole crisis; years of careful, evidence-based refutations have made no impact at all on these people.

Such a nostalgia, the dream of recovering lost Muslim glory, contributed greatly to the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan in 1947: it was the other side of the quite real fear among Indian Muslims of being reduced to a powerless minority in a Hindu-majority country.

And the Christians in Ambon fear not just similar pogroms but an even greater influx of Muslim immigrants, in addition to those who have arrived in recent years, leaving them a powerless minority.There is resentment against the domination of trade by the incomers, a common complaint in parts of Indonesia that have received lots of migrants.

"Unfortunately, GB like America...where through sheer force of numbers, the invasion of our lands by subhumans will have us a distinctly powerless minority in just a couple of decades," another worried, "to rid a house of roaches, voting will not do...you have to exterminate".

By the end of World War II, Jews -- many of them merchants, doctors, factory workers -- were a distinct, powerless minority.

"Well, according to my definition of the word, a fascist is someone who tries to blame all the problems of the world on a single powerless minority," he says of the would-be demagogue and star of US reality TV series The Apprentice. "So in that sense, Trump is a fascist.

Some believe that she has made a political calculation not to risk domestic popularity for the sake of a hated and powerless minority; others regard her as lacking political skills.

"By punching downward, by attacking a powerless, disenfranchised minority with crude, vulgar drawings closer to graffiti than cartoons, Charlie wandered into the realm of hate speech," he added.