Sentence examples for striking minority from inspiring English sources

Women remain a striking minority in top corporate echelons, even in fiercely egalitarian countries like Sweden or the increasing meritocracy of the United States.

Unsurprisingly, Britons were the most likely to say the EU should offer a good deal (56%), although a striking minority (16%) thought the EU should offer unattractive terms.

Lennon's last act of political activism was a statement in support of the striking minority sanitation workers in San Francisco on 5 December 1980.

The result is striking: Minorities accounted for 92 percent of the nation's population growth in the decade that ended in 2010, Mr. Frey calculated, a surge that has created a very different looking America from the one of the 1950s, when the TV characters Ozzie and Harriet were a national archetype.

Also striking is how minority neighborhoods lag in the recovery.

Analysis of these arrests produced a striking theme – the minority were locals.

He also helped engineer a striking increase in minority representation in the undergraduate student body, an affirmative-action effort he considered his greatest achievement.

More striking was the minority of evangelical churchgoers and even pastors who expressed ambivalence about the amendment or simply a desire to stay out of the debate.

The report revealed "striking disparities for minorities in mental health services".

High school graduation rates are at an all-time high, with the most striking gains for minorities and the poor.

7 8 Inequalities in access to care, receipt of treatment and mortality are particularly striking among ethnic minorities, the elderly and those with mental ill health in both the UK 9– 11 and the USA, 12– 14 where it is a governmental aspiration to remove such disparities.