Sentence examples for volatile minority from inspiring English sources

Saudi Arabia's Shias are a potentially volatile minority living in some of its most oil-rich regions: little wonder that the twin notions of federalism and democracy being talked about in Iraq have long been anathema to the House of Saud.And its surprising new friendsAnd yet, in spite of everything, the American experiment in Iraq might yet succeed.

The fervour of the ideologue manqué makes no room for the sober fact that almost every nation-state harbours a disaffected and volatile minority, whose size varies constantly in inverse relation to the alertness, tact and wisdom of the majority population.

Already there have been well-meaning pleas not to engage in the kind of behaviour England's volatile travelling minority shouldn't have been given the chance to engage in in the first place.

Mr Hu, the region's party chief, reacted with a display of might reminiscent of the tactics often used in other, far more volatile, ethnic-minority regions.

But other, more pragmatic White House staffers warn the President to stay away from a volatile and socially undesirable minority.

And Qui Nguyen's "Bike Wreck" harnesses the volatile anger of ethnic minorities being squeezed out of a Manhattan increasingly accommodating only to entitled trust-fund kids and Wall Street vipers.

However, there were other patterns of change for a minority of volatiles compounds.

For Mr. Cameron, 44, who leads a potentially volatile coalition between his Conservatives and a minority bloc of Liberal Democrats, coming down on Mr. Fox's side of the cabinet tensions over the cuts proved a bruising experience.

Mr. Putin has said the law was needed to protect the rights of minorities in regions like the volatile North Caucasus republics where elections could provoke ethnic strife.

Latakia is inhabited by a potentially volatile mix of Sunni Muslims, Christians and the minority Alawites who constitute Assad's core support.

Minorities also seemed more vulnerable to volatile housing prices.