Sentence examples for impoverished minority from inspiring English sources

Botswana became independent in 1966, and the government's eventual view was that the Bushmen were an impoverished minority living in rugged terrain that made them hard to help.

Peshawar has been the site of several attacks on Christians, a tiny and impoverished minority in Muslim-majority Pakistan, including the September 2013 suicide bomb attack on All Saints' church that killed 85 and wounded more than 100.

Hoy can move on from Olympic cycling safe in the knowledge that Birtish track racing - which he has lived through from its most impoverished, minority sport days right through to its world domination - is in a far better place now than when he first came in.

I have yet to see a culture where truly shared values were proclaimed by fiat from above rather than forged by struggle and through consensus from below, let alone one where the primary responsibilty for tolerance rests with the most impoverished minority group that faces the most intolerance.

Under current federal law, people convicted of selling 5 grams of crack — most often used in impoverished, minority areas — face the same five-year mandatory minimum sentence as offenders caught selling 500 grams of the powdered cocaine popular with more upscale users.

These seven neighborhoods are comprised of mostly impoverished, minority populations and due to disinvestment of other civic infrastructure the criminal justice system has become the only governmental representative.

Eager to prevent the students from becoming effective leaders of discontented groups of ethnic or impoverished minorities, Moi closed the universities temporarily when opposition was voiced.

The policy has attracted widespread criticism from those who say that it amounts to racism toward one of the European Union's most impoverished minorities, and that Mr. Sarkozy is playing to the far right before the 2012 presidential election to bolster his poor approval ratings.

• From outside the ring, or up on the American social mountaintop, shouldn't any significant abandonment of a dangerous and inherently exploitive sport as a preferred way up the economic ladder by African-Americans or other impoverished minorities be seen as progress?

These weak organisations struggling to offer some form of representation to impoverished minorities underrepresented in central, regional and local government and in many areas of the public and private sectors, are made to sound like the powerful lobbies and interest groups feared by the government and exerting great influence on its decisions.

Schools often promote common ideals of a capitalistic culture, and in doing so; present the impoverished, minorities, the disabled, and immigrants as inferior.