Sentence examples for constituting a minority from inspiring English sources

While constituting a minority, the relatively upscale wing clearly dominates party policy and provides the majority of the activists who run campaigns, serve as delegates to the convention and have become the core of the party's donor base.

Based on sequence analysis, partitiviruses were relatively rare, and occurred only in about 5%% of the Heterobasidion isolates analyzed, constituting a minority (about 28%%) of all virus-infected [double-stranded RNA (dsRNA -positive] isolates.

First, with many millions using the language in so many places (many of them rarely interacting with native speakers) and with native speakers constituting a minority of those who use it, people are less concerned about whether they sound convincingly American or British, or write with colloquial perfection.

In addition to constituting a minority of only 28% of researchers worldwide, women "also tend to have more limited access to funding than men and to be less represented in prestigious universities and among senior faculty, which puts them at a further disadvantage in high-impact publishing," the report observes.

Such an initial mutation is heteroplasmic with the mutated variant constituting a minority [ 10].

Overall, providers viewed contraceptive service demand in their communities to be low, with young people constituting a minority of their clientele.

Turnaround assignments actually now constitute a minority of its business.

SEVERAL times Mr. Straus restates that the serial and atonal composers constituted a minority, "hardly a position of dominance".

Radical Islamist parties constitute a minority: unlike in the shah's Iran, democratic forces outweigh the theocratic.

Additional refugees from Syria would constitute a minority of those that Obama proposes to admit over the next year.

In each contest to date where evangelicals have constituted a minority of the electorate, Mr. Romney has won.