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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Libya s Jihadist Minority

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Women and minority members

Minority Rights Group International

Today, France s black minority is trying to organize itself along the lines of the Jewish minority.

Majority influence refers to the majority trying to produce conformity on the minority, while minority influence is converting the majority to adopt the thinking of the minority group.

That process should be an interaction between the persons belonging to the minority themselves, between the minority and the State, and between the minority and the wider national society.

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

The right to contacts has three facets, permitting intra minority contacts, inter minority contacts, and transfrontier contacts.

Rights of the Batwa minority

Girls from ethnic minority backgrounds

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.

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.

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

In 1961, 69 of the women minority group never attended school, compared to 30 of the male minority group.

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

Efforts have been made to increase minority employment in the revenue raising institutions and make them more accessible to minority communities.

As to the participation of the so called Macedonian minority, through its Rainbow Association, in Greek political life, she said that it had increased by a very small percentage in recent years following the parliamentary elections.