In addition to the Polish majority, there was a significant Jewish minority in Warsaw.

The Chinese, estimated at about 15,000, are the only significant immigrant minority.

Immigration has brought Islam (4.9 ) and Eastern Orthodoxy (around 2 ) as sizeable minority religions.

A substantial minority of the population suffers from these diseases, which are often chronic, debilitating, and life threatening.

There is a growing mixed population, along with a significant Indo Caribbean or East Indian groups, a small European origin minority (descendants of French, British, and Irish colonists) and there are small numbers of Lebanese, Syrians and Asians.

In the east, there was a strong sense of being Bengali, and a sizeable Hindu minority continued to live in the province.

Where there is a large linguistic minority within the country, the language of the minority is sometimes also an official language of the State concerned.

Yemenite Jews once formed a sizable Jewish minority in Yemen with a distinct culture from other Jewish communities in the world.

They comprise a significant minority, loud and well organized.

A minority population which is almost totally neglected in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is the Roma population.

But we are a small minority.

Rights of the Batwa minority

There is hardly any national minority, however defined, that is not also an ethnic or linguistic minority.

The Iraqis had demonstrated once again their great courage and determination to take control of their country's future by turning out for the constitutional referendum in large numbers and by voting in the face of intimidation by a small but violent minority.

Christianity is a small minority in Mauritania.

Even in the first post WWII generation, only a minority of Americans a largely white, male minority found well paying stable jobs at large, unionized, capital intensive manufacturing companies like GM, GE, or AT T.

Christianity in the Comoros is a minority religion.

Unionists were in a minority on the island of Ireland as a whole, but in the northern province of Ulster they were a very large majority in County Antrim and County Down, small majorities in County Armagh and County Londonderry and a substantial minority in the rest of the province.

A small minority belong to the Finnish Orthodox Church (1.1 ).

He and his fellow dissidents were a tiny minority, too.

Andrew Fisher then formed another minority government 1908 09.

The Labor Party formed a minority government with the 3 independents.

The situation of the Terik minority was raised for the first time outside Kenya.

The Batwa minority remains marginalized within the Burundian society.

If most people still work a 40 hour week, a substantial and growing minority have had unwanted leisure thrust upon them in the form of unemployment, under employment, and forced withdrawal from the labor market.

The 2011 elections resulted in a minority Labour administration led by Carwyn Jones.

Early meetings of the Congress contained a minority of Muslims, mostly from the elite.

There is a small minority of about of Swedish speakers in the city.

Lebanon also has a Jewish population, estimated at less than 100.

Others apparently a minority have ruled to the contrary.

And the hated, treasonous religious minority was not Muslim, but Jewish.

However, a minority of Twitter users seemed to think this was a good idea.

It enjoys the status of an official minority language in Sweden.

Conservative leader Kåre Willoch formed a minority government after the election of 1981.

Women of minority groups may encounter similar problems in their own countries.

The 1923 Lausanne Convention had not recognized them as such and they therefore enjoyed the same rights and privileges as all citizens.

Also relevant will be whether it is a long established minority or a new minority composed of recent immigrants, whether or not they have obtained citizenship.

As Egypt was Arabized and Islamized, the Copts became a minority in their original homeland.

Only a minority of Ethiopians are born in hospitals most of them are born in rural households.

A small minority of Liberians of European descent reside in the country.

As a result, the resolution enjoys the support of only a minority of Member States.

The most numerous national minorities in BiH are the Roma.

In a minority of these, UNHCR determined status only for resettlement purposes.

In some societies, democracy is simply a way for the majority to repress the minority.

A tiny minority of such men might lash out in desperation.