Sentence examples for off the minority from inspiring English sources
Given the party's recent history of code words and writing off the minority vote, it will take more than break dancers on the convention stage to change this picture.
Members of the majority can not only turn off the minority's cellphones if they feel like it, they can also turn out the office lights.
The Sunnis are fighting to throw off the minority government's oppressive policies.
Experts warn that AQAP could use the growing chaos to reassert itself, and to link up with anxious Sunni Muslims to fend off the minority Houthis, who are Shiites, and who were previously concentrated in the country's north.
Why had Price's email and mobile been "switched off by one of the minority shareholders in the business"?
Earlier this month a federal district judge, Nelva Gonzales Ramos, struck down the law, slamming it as a cynical ploy on the part of Republicans to fend off the growing strength of the minority electorate in Texas by "suppressing the overwhelmingly Democratic votes of African Americans and Latinos".
In a joint e-mail, Beverly Karplus Hartline, CEOSE Report Subcommittee Chairperson, and Samuel L. Myers Jr., CEOSE Vice Chairperson, acknowledge these issues, and point to one spot where the minority-scientist pipeline is especially leaky: "There is a huge drop-off in the minority transition from Ph.D. production to faculty representation".
An internal contradiction within Islam sets off the majority against the extremist minority.
Historically, polls in New York City mayoral elections have been consistently off estimating the minority vote.
In this endeavor, Mr. Williams has assiduously avoided what in the Barry era came to be known as "the race card" -- harvesting the vote of the divided district's black working-class majority by playing off the affluent white minority.
Small groups of investors could control firms in which they owned just small stakes; cross-dealings between firms controlled this way could be used to siphon off the wealth of minority shareholders.Poland's new law also permits small investors to band together to challenge a company's activity or accounts.
