Sentence examples for permanent minority from inspiring English sources
"Otherwise we will be a permanent minority party.
They now have a virtually permanent minority status there.
Either development, Perkins warned, would put "Republicans on the path to a permanent minority".
Was the specter of permanent minority status sufficient to outweigh their distaste for PR?
And I will not be a part of a permanent minority party".
The party finds itself in a desperate effort to rebuild and to avoid permanent minority status.
As in the Soviet Union, every piece of land in Ethiopia was inscribed as the ethnic homeland of a particular group, constitutionally dividing the population into a permanent majority alongside permanent minorities with little stake in the system.
They focus on immigrants merging into resident populations in the third generation and do not envisage permanent minorities.
Blacks, as a quasi-permanent minority, might insist upon a status different from that of voluntary immigrants who merge with the majority in a few generations.
And now, we are where we are because of Baucus' ridiculously naive notion that he could actually work with Republicans on health care, despite the fact that real health-care reform means near-permanent minority status for the GOP and a loss of untold millions for the party's well-heeled sponsors.
But jettisoning cultural conservatives in order to protect an unpopular economic agenda is just as likely to have the opposite effect — losing more in disaffection than it gains through outreach, and consigning G.O.P. elites to exactly the kind of purer-but-smaller, permanent-minority fate that their revolt is intended to escape.
