Sentence examples for by minority rule from inspiring English sources

"We don't understand the system where a majority of workers vote for an outcome, a majority of bargaining units vote for an outcome, and the majority is held up by minority rule," said Mayor John DeStefano Jr. of New Haven, who was one of five big-city mayors to meet with the governor on Friday.

Liberia's heritage is one of minority rule by an oligarchy (the Americo-Liberians) that monopolized the political process for over a century and a quarter.

So, Trump shouldn't worry so much — minority rule by his party is still firmly in place.

In recent days, Mr. Mugabe has acknowledged his party's failure to inspire young blacks, who tired of his talk of revolution and flocked last year to an opposition party that promised to ease unemployment, even though it was partly financed by whites who once supported minority rule.

The response from the finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, is that you can't undo the damage caused by 300 years of white minority rule in a mere 18 years.

The Marikana story is not only a tragic incident where mineworkers senselessly lost their lives, but it is also developing into one of the worst cases of bungling by the prosecution since white minority rule ended in 1994.

The Senate has become paralyzed by the worst form of minority rule.

International involvement in the region increased, and by 1980 only South Africa and Namibia remained under minority rule.

"They feel white minority rule was replaced by black majority tyranny," Mr. Kruger said in a telephone interview after the hearing, which was conducted in Afrikaans.

As well as the 13 dead, another 27 soldiers were injured - the highest number of casualties suffered by South Africa's army since white minority rule ended in 1994.

In pre-independence Zimbabwe, for instance, protectionist conservation alienated white farmers from wildlife and became an important political tool in the hands of black nationalists by highlighting the injustice of white minority rule.