Sentence examples for minute minority from inspiring English sources

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While dispensing with grass-court tournaments altogether would be a pity, it has become something of an anomaly that the tournament that likes to think of itself as the premier event on the tennis calendar represents a form of the game that is played regularly by a minute minority of players.

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"You won't see a repetition of last week, taking us to the last minute," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif).

According to the minutes, a minority on the committee preferred announcing a schedule for asset sales, without necessarily waiting for the Fed to raise interest rates.

You could pay attention for a couple of minutes" Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer asks for order during debate over GOP tax bill on Senate floor.

The Guardian's minute-by-minute becomes a Minority Report with Wenger forced to swap Lions for Lambs.

African Americans spent more time in travel than whites (29.1 versus 20.6 minutes); other minorities did not differ.

Instead of elbowing out rivals in Khodorkovsky's uninhibited fashion -- on one occasion, Khodorkovsky reportedly moved a shareholder meeting to a new location secretly and at the last minute so that minority shareholders would not be present to vote against the dilution of their holdings -- Alekperov shared ownership with a larger pool of managers, bureaucrats, investors and workers.

Universities complain that given the minute pool of minority faculty, it is almost impossible to have a representative faculty.

And a few minutes ago, a minority in the United States Senate decided it wasn't worth it.

This past week, the phenomenon of public weeping took a decidedly political turn, with incoming House Speaker John Boehner crying on "60 Minutes" and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell fighting back tears on the Senate floor.

"This is all about a liberal agenda being crammed down the neck of Oklahoma and the rest of the country," Inhofe said, minutes after Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev).

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