Sentence examples for regional minorities from inspiring English sources
We never had to compromise to share power with regional minorities as Britain or Spain had to, inscribing rights to non-Castillian or non-English groups.
Many Shia leaders, however, have already signalled their dissatisfaction with the TAL, claiming that it gives too much power to regional minorities such as the Kurds.So far, it has taken Iraqi politicians three months to set up even a temporary government.
"I have great respect for the Muslim population of Syria," he told me, adding that he was very much aware of the small, hard-pressed Jewish minorities in places like Iran, and of other regional minorities like the Druze and the Alawites.On his watch, the religious-liberty debate will certainly not be platitudinous.
To nudge it along, Ms. Taubira, a pugnacious economist from French Guiana, is running in France's presidential elections on Sunday, not because she harbors any illusion of winning, but rather to draw attention to discrimination against women, blacks, gays and regional minorities.
Alevis, as well as members of the country's Shia, Christian and small regional minorities, have noted the HDP's pledge to release the country from the monopolistic understanding of the country as a Turkish Sunni nation, and from a president whose appetite for power is clearly undimmed.
Regional minority languages add many more to the total.
More generally, referendums can also support developments toward autonomy or even independence of regional "minority" populations.
In Europe, 55 million people, 10% of the EU's population, speak a regional, minority or endangered language.
Although Sami is not a national language of Finland like Finnish and Swedish, its status as a regional minority language is guaranteed by the Sami Language Act (2004).
The British Council's Language Rich Europe report examined how different European countries approached the teaching and use of regional, minority and foreign languages.
Language is an extremely important element of Neapolitan song, which is always written and performed in Neapolitan, the regional minority language of Campania.
