Sentence examples for minor partners from inspiring English sources

The electoral system gives disproportionate power to minor partners in government.

The devaluation, he added, "kept open the option of a common regional currency" someday for the Mercosur countries, which include Paraguay and Uruguay as minor partners.

"Now for the first time we became a minor partner.

So far, the UK has only been a minor partner.

Sinn Féin will not go into coalition as a minor partner.

Redman is the leader of the National party, the minor partner in the WA's Coalition government.

EADS will own 80% of Airbus, leaving BAe as a minor partner with the remaining 20%.

"For Russia, it is difficult to become a minor partner," said Anatoli I. Utkin, director of international studies at the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies in Moscow.

A minor partner in Aqueduct Entertainment was the Rev. Floyd H. Flake, an influential Queens minister who did not often agree with Mr. Sharpton.

The party won only 21 seats, down from 41. Though the Liberal Party played an important role as a minor partner in recent coalitions, it is a newcomer to the political big league.

Mr. Flake's finances became a matter of public curiosity this year when he emerged as a minor partner in a bid to operate a casino at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens.