Sentence examples for minority determines from inspiring English sources
Yet as voter participation drops, a self-selected minority determines who runs the country, and policy increasingly reflects their interests.
Every weekend, the travelling public, law-abiding supporters and rail staff are distressed by anti-social and intimidating behaviour from a minority determined to cause trouble.
This has come under fire from a minority determined to defend the principle of the presumption of innocence and the rights of those indicted to a trial before an unprejudiced jury.
As with last week's Republican convention in Cleveland, the early days of the Democratic convention in this sweat-soaked city were marked by rowdy protests led by an insurgent minority determined to challenge the results of the primaries.
"The reasonable center does not express itself, and the militant minority — determined, with a vision, with political power — is working day and night to kill the two-state option.
It always bothered me a bit to hear visitors rave about the efficiency of Chinese authoritarianism, when there was so much they didn't see — how the government was poorly equipped to hear the demands of its people, how it was captive to the whims of a minority determined to hold on to power.
Even by the low standards of this campaign, it was a distressing moment and just what the nation's founders wanted to head off with the immortal words of the First Amendment: A presidential candidate cowed into defending his way of worshiping God by a powerful minority determined to impose its religious tenets as a test for holding public office.
Instead, they became a powerful minority determined to set the tone of society in the Holy City, and the leaders of American Jewry had to tread carefully to avoid antagonizing them.
You could call all of this the desperate act of a dying political party, but so far it looks more like the brilliant strategy of a powerful minority determined to prevail.
The Democratic Party legislative majority was also less effective because those Blue Dog Democrats were then immediately joined in their fiscal and social conservatism by a particularly virulent Republican minority in both Houses of Congress -- a minority determined to block Obama's policies and undermine his legitimacy by any means possible.
