Sentence examples for minority forces from inspiring English sources

In such a setting, the political initiative comes from social or minority forces, whereas governmental authorities are likely to be in a defensive position and want to defeat the proposals in a referendum vote.

In fact, each year, due to the need for tax changes to pass by a two-thirds vote in the state legislature, the Republican minority forces the Democrats to come up with more tax breaks for wealthy individuals and businesses.

Libraries and their supporters are a minority force in most communities; school administrations hold the edge in the power structure.

Whereas once upon a time working-class voters wielded considerable electoral power, they increasingly find themselves a minority force, suffering from Western democracies' move toward post-industrial and more highly educated economies, where the middle classes and graduates are dominant.

As a minority force they defended stubbornly and consistently all the civil rights which western democracy afforded them; as communists they defended equally stubbornly all the infringements of these rights in the "people's democracies".

But favouring a minority force over popular entities will strengthen anti-US sentiments – especially since liberals here are already labelled "pro-west" by many ordinary Egyptians; and in Egypt, the label has a negative connotation of treachery.

But an additional point should be made: even with the steps he proposes, a simple majority can impose its faith and mores on the minority, forcing a woman to carry a fetus to term, preventing gay couples from marrying, keeping me from physician-assisted dying if I want it.

He blamed it on an "ideologically-motivated minority forcing the pace.

Even now in the EU parliament, it and its allies will remain a minority force.

Yet the group's presence, even as a minority force, raises questions about the Syrian ceasefire's prospects, in Aleppo city and elsewhere.

But what the Assads did was turn Alawites into a minority force that would have to fight to its death in order to survive, hated and feared due to the practices of the police state.