Sentence examples for vigorous minority from inspiring English sources

Because New York is not a winner-take-all state, that would mean a vigorous minority would appear at the national convention.

This agent had always been the favored cause, but a vigorous minority of biologists and historians have argued the Black Death differed from modern cases of plague studied in India, and therefore must have had a different cause.

Hence there is a need to encourage good, intelligent religious discourse over the opposite kind.Perhaps but British Christians still have some thinking to do about which corner they want to fight: is it that of an old institution defending its privileges, or that of a vigorous minority challenging the mainstream?

Such parties, while vigorous guardians of minority rights, lack the power to make policy on issues, like crime and affirmative action, that preoccupy whites.

35th District, Westchester: State Senator Nicholas Spano, a Republican first elected in 1986, is facing a vigorous rematch this year against Thomas Abinanti, minority leader of the Westchester County Legislature.

Black officers also have complaints over what they see as unequal outcomes of the department's disciplinary and assignment policies, and the lack of access by minority officers to vigorous union representation -- all similar to complaints among black officers in New York.

That would allow a minority to demand a vigorous debate.

Mr. Bush's outreach to members of minorities has been especially vigorous lately; earlier this week, he spoke to a convention of black law enforcement officers.

And government critics say the ruling party has deliberately played down those killings, hoping to distract the public with vigorous rhetorical attacks on Zimbabwe's white minority, who dominate the economy but make up less than 2percentt of the population.

This may sound slightly odd coming from a legislator who, as minority leader, gained a reputation for vigorous use of procedural powers to achieve substantive political ends.

He often voted in the minority on various safety questions, advocated more vigorous safety improvements, and was regarded with deep suspicion by the nuclear industry.