Sentence examples for ruling minority from inspiring English sources

One is a ruling minority of the healthy few who rely on vegetable gardens, personal trainers and spa getaways to stay fit.

They are right to worry that Mr. Assad's murderous behavior could destabilize the region by fomenting all-out civil war between Syria's ruling minority Alawites, a Shiite subgroup, and the majority Sunnis.

Had Akbar persecuted his non-Muslim subjects, his empire would not have survived; the Muslims were a small, ruling minority in India, a region which never had religious uniformity.

It has since descended into a civil war with sectarian overtones that pits Mr. Assad's ruling minority Alawite group, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, against opposition forces drawn mostly from the country's Sunni majority.

The antipathy between Shiites and Sunnis, now quiescent in the face of a common occupying power, existed even before 1638, when the Sunni Ottoman Turks took control of Mesopotamia and made the Sunnis a ruling minority -- a position they maintained until last week.

There is a deep split in Bahrain between the Sunni Muslim ruling minority and the Shia Muslim majority, who say they are discriminated against.

This has embittered what started as peaceful uprisings in Bahrain and Syria, where ruling minorities have used brute force and sectarian fear-mongering to maintain control.

The sporting sanctions against apartheid South Africa certainly (and properly) caused the ruling white minority considerable pain.

Each state was organized into a pattern of lordships by the ruling Christian minority.

Natal remained pro-British throughout the war on account of the British origins of its ruling white minority.

French fascists were strong defenders of the French empire in Indochina and North Africa, and during the interwar period they attracted considerable support among the ruling European minority (colons) in Algeria.