Sentence examples for minority to take from inspiring English sources

And there will be another fight, in another constituency, where he will again rouse a vocal minority to take up his cause.

But the Brown campaign has suggested she listed herself as a minority to take unfair advantage of affirmative action programs — a charge that has stung Ms. Warren, who has published widely, received positive reviews from students and been recruited by various law schools, including Harvard.

Frustrated by Republican opposition on key bills and eager for concrete accomplishments to show voters, Democrats are focused on pushing the minority to take a stand on popular measures, including the jobs bill and House legislation aimed at repealing the health-insurance industry's decades-old antitrust exemption.

Then, once we had established that trust, we would allow the group that was in the minority to take the lead in the dialogue.

When Naqeebullah Mehsud was murdered last month by the Karachi police, the aspiring model's death prompted thousands of Pashtuns, Pakistan's biggest ethnic minority, to take to the streets to demand justice.

The Bloomberg administration countered that this year it recruited 61,000 fire department applicants, half of them minorities, to take a new test in January.

"The move toward eco-friendly development, and the jobs it creates," she said, "is an opportunity for blacks and other minorities to take more control of their destiny.

The attempt to reverse these misdeeds underlines the challenge facing conflict zones around the world, where ensuring the right of returning minorities to take possession of their homes is deemed essential to reconstruction in multiethnic countries like Rwanda and Iraq.

Similarly, does a laudatory biography, documentary drama or eulogy "endorse" the "terrorist" actions of Nelson Mandela or Gerry Adams in a way that might encourage disenfranchised minorities to take up arms, as they did?

He too credited part of his success to an outside program — the UCLA Vice Provost Initiative for Pre-College Scholars — that pushes African Americans like himself and other underrepresented minorities to take the rigorous coursework needed for acceptance to top universities.

She is the first woman from Greece's Muslim minority to have taken a case to the European court of human rights, disputing a ruling based on sharia law that stripped her of part of her inheritance.