Sentence examples for relegated to the minority from inspiring English sources

"They'll get something done," predicted former Senator John B. Breaux of Louisiana, a Democrat who was relegated to the minority by that Republican Revolution.

With New York expected to lose at least one seat in Congress because of population shifts nationwide, and Republicans facing the prospect of being further relegated to the minority if they do not pick up seats in the Senate, the fight promises to be especially fierce.

With Firefox still relegated to the minority (though significant minority), does Chrome have a real chance?

On closely divided cases with competing visions of the Constitution, Roberts could effectively be relegated to the minority.

In the election of 1932, considered the country's third critical election, Republican incumbent President Herbert Hoover was overwhelmingly defeated by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Republicans were relegated to the status of a minority party.

Gregson's statement lays out how he would address "how poetry has suffered, in recent decades, a catastrophic loss of cultural prestige and popularity", and how "it is being relegated to the status of a geeky, minority pursuit".

The GOP establishment never seems to learn that going along with big-government policies is exactly what gets Republicans thrown out of office and relegated to the status of the powerless minority that they were for the better part of 50 years, from the New Deal until the election of Reagan in 1980.