Sentence examples for numerical minority from inspiring English sources

They account for most of the world's cultural diversity, despite being a numerical minority.

To participate gleefully, for example, is to be its standard bearer, even while being a numerical minority.

Now the Brooklyn borough president, Adams says officers and management must stop making assumptions about poor communities based on the "numerical minority" that commits most of the offences.

Trouble brewed between the numerical minority of native "East Bankers" and the relatively disenfranchised majority of Jordanians who are of Palestinian descent.

The question is whether whiteness, having arisen from a set of privileges accrued and institutionalized over centuries, can ever truly become a minority category, even if white people become a numerical minority.

Thus, the politics of immigration may have become like the politics of several other issues: the vital interests and passion of a numerical minority allows it to "own" the issue, because the group votes overwhelmingly, sometimes only, on that issue.

We outline a new explanation of discrimination against numerical minorities.

And Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter notes that numerical minorities in professional situations, such as a woman with a group of men, may feel pressured to laugh at jokes that demean the minority.

This leaves them with workplace relationships and general experiences that differ starkly from those of other numerical minorities, particularly women, but also from black men in female-dominated professions.

Numerical minorities positively influence creativity and divergent thinking in problem solving and decision-making.

As Robert Dahl of Yale taught us, we have what amounts to a system of (numerical) minorities' rule in this country.