For this growing and vocal minority, the term is a chimera, another cliché to be paraded when self-styled community leaders and vote hungry politicians want to sound inclusive and civil.
Indian Americans are in fact a new "model minority". This term dates back to the 1960s, when East Asians--Americans of Chinese, Japanese and Korean descent--were noted for their advanced educations and high earnings.
Systematic assessment of the evidence codes of the GO terms used for the interaction filtering (BP8 and CC5) shows that a minority of terms are inferred from sequence or structural similarity (ISS) (see Additional file 4).
As noted earlier, the public shareholders were a "minority" in terms of voting power.
"There are experiences and issues that bond us together, and we understand that we are still deep in the minority in terms of being women," she said.
The most problematic minority, in terms of street crime and other forms of maladjustment, is the Moroccans — many of them Moroccan Berbers originally from remote villages in the Rif Mountains.
Assemblyman Joseph V. Doria, the Democratic minority leader, termed the $100 million in immediate rebates the "Son of Property Tax Relief Fund" and said neither the rebates nor the longer-term proposals of the Governor's commission would quiet the public furor over residents' heavy local tax burden.
Action sequences, a definite minority in terms of gameplay time spent, are competent but occasionally clumsy.
They are also a minority in terms of power and access to resources in many states across West Africa.
The former are often problematized in integration discourses, sometimes with explicit reference to the frequency of 'homeland' marriages, whilst the latter has been considered a model minority in terms of integration (e.g., Goodhart, 2013).
