Sentence examples for tense minority from inspiring English sources

He called the suits a misguided "shortcut" for addressing the problems of France's tense minority neighborhoods, from which most French rappers hail.

All week, for instance, city officials have battled direct or implicit accusations that the police deliberately took a hands-off approach because of the department's tense relations with minority groups.

It was Chief Daryl Gates, whose tenure was marked by tense relations with minority communities, who took the first major step.

In the European Reformation, things became tense when a determined minority demanded reform, but in general it was those church and state officials who held power who first resorted to violence.

The downside of the Giuliani years could be linked to the mayor's personal qualities: his temper, his tense relations with the minority communities and his bullying of public officials who have crossed him.

Spurred by the kind of tense police encounters that minorities fear but that have been a feature of urban American life, the upheaval in Watts demonstrates the utility and futility of urban protest.

The local police have a long history of tense relations with immigrants and minorities, and the federal Justice Department is investigating whether officers have practiced discriminatory policing.

Things grew tenser after Mr. Reid became minority leader in 2005, but the hardening of party lines and Mr. Reid's fury were not fully visible until he became majority leader this year.

For years, relations between the police and many low-income and minority neighborhoods have been tense.

Relations between China's Han majority and its Uighur Muslim minority have been especially tense since ethnic riots in the western Xinjiang autonomous region in July — disturbances that left nearly 200 people dead, most of them Han.

I am not a minority student; however, the tense racial atmosphere at Smith has been weighing heavily in my decision to return or not to return to the college.