Sentence examples for the minority from from inspiring English sources
"What I'm fearful of is that, knowing how this place works, that we might come down to some minor little fixes that still will not prevent the minority from stopping everything," Harkin said Wednesday.
In particular, he objects to Mr Reid's habit of "filling the tree", a procedural ruse that prevents the minority from offering amendments to bills.
During the past three sessions of Congress, the majority leader has resorted to an average of 129 cloture motions, a near doubling from the level when Democrats were in the minority from 2003 to 2007.
"In our representative democracy," said Edward C. Wallace, a lawyer and former City Council member, "the legislature and the courts exist to protect the fundamental liberties of the minority from tyranny of the majority.
The frequent flashes of rancor in the Senate paled in comparison with the relations in the House, where Democrats complained that the Republican majority exercised iron-fisted control and prevented the minority from representing the interests of their constituents.
The idea was that, under Hussein, nearly all Iraqis had suffered — not just the Kurds and the Shiites, but even the Sunnis, the minority from which Hussein had come.
The assembly of 502 delegates has divided along ethnic lines in the last few days, with the largest group, the Pashtuns, arrayed against the minorities from the north of the country.
The wrangling has aggravated underlying ethnic grievances, as the minorities from northern Afghanistan accused the Pashtuns of trying to impose their will, and the Pashtuns accused the northerners of spoiling the proceedings.
The minorities from outside Sylhet are mainly from Noakhali, Chittagong and Khulna, very few are from other divisions.
Saradzhyan surmises in a journal entry that the suicide attacks were aimed at stirring up ethnic rioting by Russian nationalists and the minorities from the Caucasus and Central Asia who are often the targets of police repression.
Few large-scale epidemiological studies have focused on the prevalence of hypertension, overweight/obesity and dyslipidemia among the minorities from the pasture area of Xinjiang in the last decade.
