One of his big decisions, however, has constituted more than a simple stir.
By contrast, Hispanic voters have never constituted more than the one-fifth of the electorate.
The ethnic Germans of the Sudetenland constituted more than 22percentt of Czechoslovakia's population before the war.
He said the deals already examined constituted more than 70percentt of the AOL division's advertising and electronic commerce revenue in that period.
African-Americans constituted more than eleven per cent of the population of Texas but just 4.5percentnt of the university population.
But Republicans constituted more than 60percentt of the electorate in the primary, and Mr. Bush took the votes of two-thirds of them.
The result, as James Riley notes, is "a landscape constituted more actively by what is missing than by what is present".
In the early 21st century Roman Catholics constituted more than one-sixth of the world's population, many of them in Latin America and Africa.
That figure then constituted more than 7% of the total; perhaps 8,000 more are thought to have been taken elsewhere that year.
The number of African Americans in St . Louisalso dropped, but at a much slower rate, and by 2000 blacks constituted more than half of the city's residents.
Anointed by the Belgians as their administrators and collaborators in Rwanda and Burundi, the Tutsis, who never constituted more than 18percentt of the population, were presented with a poisoned chalice combining ethnic elitism with economic favoritism.
