Sentence examples for settler minority from inspiring English sources

But the majority is powerless in the face of the relentless settler minority.

The single-minded resolution of the settler minority has prevailed over the apathy and lack of direction of the Israeli majority.

Half a century later, in 1965, another colony with close links to the British military, Rhodesia, unilaterally declared independence as a way of preserving the dominance of its white settler minority, many of whom were former servicemen.

Struggling to explain why he could not abandon the idea of a French Algeria — or, at a minimum, of some decent compromise that would insure majority rule while protecting the rights of the "settler" minority — he ended with the weak-sounding formula that he could not abandon his mother, which made it seem merely a question of blood.

Security Council Resolutions 216 and 217, adopted in the days following Smith's declaration, denounced UDI as an illegitimate "usurpation of power by a racist settler minority", and called on nations not to entertain diplomatic or economic relations.

Security Council Resolution 217, following on 20 November, condemned UDI as an illegitimate "usurpation of power by a racist settler minority", and called on nations neither to recognise what it deemed "this illegal authority" nor to entertain diplomatic or economic relations with it.

Reconstruction also ensured that settler minorities would prevail over the black majority.

Tensions remain between the white settler populations of these countries and their indigenous minorities, and between white settler minorities and indigenous majorities in South Africa and Zimbabwe.

This is our final phase of implementing the ideals of the liberation struggle, which started with the attainment of political independence in 1980, which was followed by the indigenisation of the land that was largely owned by the minority settler white community for nearly a century.

They cannot protect their subjects from the occupying power or its citizens, the half-million settlers, a substantial minority of whom are violent racists acknowledging no law other than their own, not even that of the State of Israel.

Although the settlers are a tiny minority of the Israeli population they have become the tail that wags the dog.