Sentence examples for leading ethnic from inspiring English sources

Schurz was America's leading ethnic politician, back when German-Americans were a substantial and self-conscious group, and he was a crusading liberal reformer.

Mr. Diallo is of the country's leading ethnic group, the Peul, which makes up nearly 40 percent of the population, and spent 11 years as a minister.

The police said the woman was apparently trying to kill Douglas Devananda, a government minister and leading ethnic Tamil politician, who has been a strident critic of the rebel Tamil Tigers.

Mr. Yenlong said the attackers were "hoodlums, Fulani herdsmen" — Muslims from a neighboring state, Bauchi, who were going after Christian members of Plateau's leading ethnic group, the Berom, in the villages of Ratt and Dogona Hauwa.

But differences between the country's leading ethnic groups were huge, illustrating a persistently worrying ethnic polarisation of politics.Of Kenya's five most populous groups, the Luo, who account for about 12% of the total, voted overwhelmingly yes en bloc, as requested by their undisputed leader, Raila Odinga, who hopes, under the new deal, to become the next president.

Although some Russians silently harbour resentment over the domination of the country's political and public life by a new Kazakh elite, the potentially explosive relations between the two leading ethnic groups were defused two years ago with the passing of a language law: Kazakh was declared the state language and Russian the language of common use.But the harmony may not last.

AT THE end of March, as a burst of fighting between Macedonian security forces and Albanian-nationalist rebels was dying down, the country's leading ethnic-Albanian politician, Arben Xhaferi, made a forecast: shooting would restart in four weeks unless progress were made towards righting his community's grievances.

I understand that tracking students into academic and general groups often was arbitrary and unsound, leading to ethnic divisions that were completely unjustified.

Hadzic was charged in 2004 by the tribunal in The Hague with leading the "ethnic cleansing" of Krajina, driving out Croats and other non-Serbs.

The Northern states that are challenging Sri Lanka in the UNHRC also believe that the Geneva process may help transform the socio-political condition of the minority communities in Sri Lanka leading to ethnic reconciliation.

The intervention prisons were geographically closer to the international airports and therefore may have included an over-representative number of non-national mothers and babies, leading to ethnic and language differences between the two groups.