But Iraq has been able to do little to halt the rebel group's activities because Iraq's central government must rely on its ethnic Kurdish minority, which populates the region where the guerrillas are active, to take a stand against them.
Its cost and its threat to nature preserves and endangered wildlife are causing concern, as is its potential disruption of the traditional way of life of the hill-tribe minorities that populate the mountains.
An activist in Damascus said that rebels shot down a Syrian warplane on Saturday that then crashed in the suburb of Jaramana, populated by minority Druze and Christians, where a deadly bombing last week enraged government supporters.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) — A Saudi soldier was fatally shot while patrolling an area populated by minority Shiite Muslims late on Friday, the Interior Ministry said Saturday, and one of the gunmen was killed in the shootout that followed.
They have been confined to their homes, relying mostly on escorted transport for occasional visits to other places populated by minority ethnicities, the report's author, Marek Antoni Nowicki of Poland, said in a foreword to the document.
In the recruitment process, there should be a deliberate plan to visit schools predominantly populated by minority students to inform and empower them to become teachers.
The party's sway in areas populated by minorities was mixed, winning one seat in the ethnic Shan areas but losing the other.
The coastal Syrian province of Tartus is heavily populated with minorities, mostly Christians and Alawites, the offshoot of Shiite Islam to which Mr. Assad belongs.
Though Westchester is far from homogenous -- it is home to more than 100 nationalities, and has A.T.M.'s that speak everything from Portuguese to Polish -- the truth is, housing patterns result in enclaves that are almost entirely white, and others that are largely populated by minorities.
The NYCLU argues that that the metal detectors tend to "criminalize" kids in schools mainly populated by minorities.
8. @mrsolodolo1010: I am not racist, but to me, it seems that a city that is highly populated with minorities, turns into a shithole.
