But we are a small minority.

Christianity is a small minority in Mauritania.

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

Only a small minority of 25,000 Jews moved to Ottoman Palestine.

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

Only a small minority of states in Asia, for example, are true democracies.

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

A small minority cannot be allowed to veto the establishment of the Council.

Violent extremists have exploited these tensions in a small but potent minority of Muslims.

The relatively small turnout at his funeral confirmed that only a minority of Serbs considers him a national hero.

The mechanisms chosen have to take into account whether the persons belonging to the minority in question live dispersed or in compactly settled groups, whether the minority is small or large, or an old or a new minority.

Only a small minority exhibit populist tendencies that, if they gained power, could lead a society from democracy to dictatorship.

The winner would thus assume all the burdens of leadership with the support of only a small minority of the electorate.

The independent board members would constitute only a small minority, but their presence and professional expertise would give them disproportionate weight.

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.

Lebanese and Syrians form the Arab community on the island, and the Muslim minority among them make up a small percentage of the Muslim population.

If the opposite were true, there would be no search for consensus, but an adjustment to the particular interests of a small minority of countries.

In other words, we are faced with the challenge of complexity, which requires us to ensure that a small minority is not joined by greater forces.

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.

It is a civil war within Islam between a majority of normal people and a small minority who want to coerce others into a accepting a highly ideological and politicized version of their religion.

As a result, only a small minority of the global population has full, legally guaranteed access to existing social protection schemes leaving roughly 5.6 billion people worldwide vulnerable to various degrees.

Two central large scale studies (Ramirez, Thomas Collier) and two small indigenous and immigrant minority studies (Saskia Mohanty, Skutnabb Kangas) will be summarised.

Only a small minority of India s 753 million voters use social media with electoral districts of some two million people each, Twitter is of little help in political mobilization.

A parallel event on Minority Rights and NHRIs was organized by the NI and Minority Units, including minority fellows, during the sixteenth session of ICC.

While the small but growing minority who are connected participate in an increasingly active and complex global net culture, the unconnected majority does not.

Thus, small minority parties cannot easily enter the Bundestag and prevent the formation of stable majority governments as they could under the Weimar constitution.

But this is the view of only a small minority of leaders, notably former Prime Minister Abu Mazin and Muhammad Dahlan, who heads his own militia in the Gaza Strip.

That way, if a small minority of EU governments prove unable to ratify the treaty, it would not be torpedoed the way that its predecessor, the Constitutional Treaty, was in 2005.

The theory posits that a small minority, consisting of members of the economic elite and policy planning networks, holds the most power and that this power is independent of a state's democratic elections process.

Consider supporting the development of an international convention on minority rights and the establishment of a uniform definition of a minority

Christianity is a minority religion in Egypt.

Christianity in Azerbaijan is a minority religion.

Christianity in Mongolia is a minority religion.

Recommends the continued operation of the Minority Fellowship Programme and the further preparation of a minority profile and matrix

He's been christened the voice of a generation, and he's churning out classic songs at a seemingly impossible rate, but there's a small minority of dissenters, and they claim that Bob Dylan is stealing other people's songs.

There is a large Chinese minority in Namibia.

Christianity in the Comoros is a minority religion.

Children belonging to a minority or indigenous group

There are hundreds of small scale studies like this, from most continents, which show similar results, and the results agree with research on (autochthonous and immigrant) minority children.

Those who voted affirmatively were only a tiny minority.

They comprise a significant minority, loud and well organized.

Others apparently a minority have ruled to the contrary.

In certain villages in the northern Greek region of Macedonia, there was a very small number of persons who claimed to have a distinct ethnic and national Macedonian identity, and who wished to be recognized as a minority in Greece.

Minority influence, a form of social influence, takes place when a member of a minority group, like an individual, influences a majority to accept the minority's beliefs or behaviour.

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.