Sentence examples for minority preferences from inspiring English sources

Clearly, mine are minority preferences.

Even affirmative action is viewed suspiciously; in one Gallup poll, 74% of blacks were opposed to minority preferences in hiring.

Part of the internal struggle on the court now may be over just how tightly it meant to draw a curtain over the general subject of minority preferences.

Black and Hispanic (but not Asian) enrollments have dropped markedly at University of California campuses with abandonment of minority preferences (Editorial Observer, April 12).

Most opinion polls suggest independence remains a minority preference.

It will not pass, but it will help keep Ms Cheney's party a minority preference among America's gays.

In fact, the Viacom deal gave the minority preference a bad odor, and when Newt Gingrich's new House majority seized on the issue as an example of the failure of affirmative action, relatively few white Democrats tried to preserve the benefit.

True, having the administration argue that the law is unconstitutional wouldn't guarantee that the Supreme Court would strike it down: in 1990, for example, the Supreme Court upheld a federal minority preference program even though the acting solicitor general (and future Supreme Court chief justice), John G. Roberts Jr., argued it was unconstitutional.

Like many Europeans, you risk being seduced by what is (for you) the exotic nature of Christian fundamentalism into believing that it is something other than a minority preference in America, and one whose number of adherents is almost certainly in decline.You are similarly credulous when you say that America is relatively "conservative about sex".

Even agencies that support minority preference may balk because the evidence for these programs is weak.

(Other surveys that frame the question in terms of giving minorities "preference" find less support).