"I see this conflict as being between the majority of human beings and the interests of some groups who are not human at all.
Alavi argues, repeatedly, that since the mullahs seized political power in Iran in 1979, the relationship between the majority of Iranians, which is pro-west and pro-democracy, and the hard-line ruling minority, is one of tension and confrontation.
There followed the schism between the majority of Muslims, who became known as Sunni, and those who followed Ali, who became known as Shi'at Ali, the partisans of Ali.
In recent years, the law regarding military enlistment has become an emblem of the growing schism between the majority of Israelis — who serve in the army — and the ultra-Orthodox Jewish minority — who don't.
It means that at some point there will have to be a showdown between the majority of fighters who want a Syrian democracy and the small minority who want an emirate on the path to a global 'caliphate'caliphate
The technique was effective to visually discriminate between the majority of Fusarium species and/or isolates tested in pure culture, while a further sequencing step permitted to distinguish between the few species showing similar migration patterns.
Beyond the Internet crackdown, there are other disturbing signs that the age and thought gap between the majority of India's citizens and their aging leaders is stifling India's teeming youth.
While immigration is contentious in the Sierra Club, there is an older, more profound division between the majority of the board members and the insurgents who have worked for years to make the group more militant and activist, with a greater orientation toward the grass-roots volunteers (front page, March 16).
Yet when the war of independence ended, Ireland was partitioned, the province of Northern Ireland established and an even more bloody civil war was fought between the majority of those who backed that Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and the diehards who opposed it.
Matthias was careful to distinguish between the majority of Israelis and those behind recent attacks on churches, but echoed a concern among many Christian leaders here that not enough was being done by the Israeli authorities to crack down on the extremist settlers most often linked to the attacks.
I can't tell the difference between the majority of the parties.
