Sentence examples for minority to a from inspiring English sources

It will be difficult for Mr Harper to dismantle it without weakening his support in Quebec, where he needs to win seats to move from a minority to a majority government in the next federal election.

Since then, capitalising on the turmoil in the wake of the expulsion of Ali Abdullah al-Saleh in 2011 and disgruntlement among Yemenis at the slow pace of change, the Houthis have gone from a bullied minority to a powerful militia in control of an expanding chunk of the country.

From it you can glean a lot of emotional understanding of how a countercultural uprising became a serious civil-rights movement that over three decades has utterly transformed the status and standing of gays and lesbians, from a mostly despised and/or ignored minority to a mostly accepted, even mostly respected, segment of the citizenry.

"We've moved the whole argument on the European issue as a result of both analysis and political will from... when we were in the complete minority to a position where, although you may dispute the exact figure... something over 200 Conservative MPs generally agree with what I'm saying today," he said.

There are many other indicators that tell us that contrary to prophecies of doom, the South African miracle continues, quietly this time, without the glare of world publicity that accompanied what can now be termed the first miracle: the relatively peaceful transfer of power from a white minority to a black-dominated government.

Since then, the proportion of saying often or sometimes justified has moved from a substantial minority to a slight majority".

In November, Isis lost the city of Sinjar, the ancestral homeland of the Yazidi minority, to an offensive led by the Kurdish peshmerga and backed by US warplanes.

We will do these things, however, in a manner that restores and respects the time-honored right of the minority to an honest debate and a fair, open process.

The University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) tripled the number of STEM degrees it awarded to minorities, to a total of 132.

… Attempts by a loud and violent minority to deny a better future to a large and broad population are grave".

That would allow a minority to demand a vigorous debate.