Sentence examples for minority nations from inspiring English sources

Recognising this permanent dominance in numbers, every generation has had to find a way to balance the power of the majority nation to impose its will with some protection for the minority nations.

The key claim made by minority nations is for self-government rights.

More specifically, federal arrangements can accommodate minority nations who aspire to self determination and the preservation of their culture, language or religion.

There is little retreat from recognizing the rights of minority nations and indigenous peoples; the retreat is restricted to immigrant multiculturalism.

Other group-differentiated rights are held by the group qua group rather by its members severally; such rights are properly called group rights, as in the case of indigenous groups and minority nations, who claim the right of self-determination.

All minority nations are threatened by cultural absorption.

In a way, Orgad generalizes the Quebecois constellation of an embattled minority nation, while wisely endorsing only the European solution of "national constitutionalism" for defining the not-to-be-compromised common core.

It's about what it's like being a young immigrant from a minority nation, growing up, finding yourself, in cities in the US, going back to Tehran.

This raises the interesting question whether "majority precedence" as the defining feature of majoritarian interculturalism is limited to the specific situation of Québec - a minority nation within a multinational state - or is generalizable to all nation-states in which there is a majority not wishing to be weakened or even extinguished by immigration.

The U.S. Census Bureau predicts that by 2043 the United States will be a majority minority nation with minorities comprising 57percentt of the population and blacks 14.7percentt.

The Census Bureauannounced last week that half the country's population growth since 2000 is due to Hispanics, another group understandably alienated from the G.O.P. Anyone who does the math knows that America is on track to become a white-minority nation in three to four decades.