Sentence examples for of their minority from inspiring English sources

Rivals have cleaved to the positions of their minority constituencies.

This is partly because the Shias, ever mindful of their minority status, retreated.

Sunni Arab politicians were generally pleased with the turnout of members of their minority, which largely boycotted January's elections.

But Southerners were made more conscious of their minority position and more aware of their vulnerability to a Northern majority as long as they remained in the union.

Because of their minority position as observers of the Jewish Sabbath, the Adventist church has, from its beginnings, staunchly defended the wall of separation between religion and state.

How can Wesleyan be justified in admitting weaker academic students only because of their minority status or because admissions officers can relate to an applicant's case?

Two weeks later, after the Democrats were painted into the partisan corner, the Senate defied its tradition of getting two-thirds' support before debating the budget, allowing 19 Republicans to take out that pesky Rainy Day Fund provision and to vote out a budget over the objection of their minority-party brethren.

All have had to find special ways to recognise the needs of their minorities.

More broadly, since the breakup of the Ottoman Empire and the end of European colonial rule, many of the great polyglot cities of the Levant and North Africa have been shorn of their minorities.

The most reasonable strategy would seem to be to do more to ensure that states respect the human rights of their minorities and to encourage intrastate autonomy agreements rather than giving up on the idea of multinational states.

Recently, there seems to be an attitude in the media that Indians are an okay minority to joke about, perhaps because of their model minority status.