On July 20, 2006, the company announced that Jeff Bezos had acquired a minority stake via his personal investment company, Bezos Expeditions .

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

Support at stake

When Muslims form a minority, they have tended to co exist peacefully with other religions, but where their populations are substantial (as in Nigeria), they tend to assert themselves.

The hope is to agree on a new, more liberal constitution that will strengthen the rights of Turkey s largest ethnic minority and include substantial devolution of power to regional governments.

Humanity s Stake in Gaza

Some issues at stake

Sami's life was at stake.

Our security is at stake.

Our future is at stake.

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.

There's hundreds of billions of your aid dollars at stake, tens of millions of lives, or deaths, at stake, and, I'd argue, the security and future of you and your family is also at stake.

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.

Africa s Stake in the Climate Change Debate

There is simply too much at stake.

More is at stake than maritime interests.

There is simply too much at stake.

They had little personally at stake in high capacity utilization and low unemployment, but a great deal at stake in stable prices.

The Global Stake in China s Anti Corruption Reform

The fight against terrorism is also at stake.

In Gaza, mankind s basic morality is at stake.

We all have a stake in her success.

Indeed, a great deal is at stake here.

All parties have an important stake in it.

OMV acquired the stake held by Dogan Holding in Petrol Ofisi in late 2010, which further increased its stake in the company to 95.75 .

Libya s Jihadist Minority

Best practice suggests a substantial amount of pre control transaction disclosure, including the disclosure of the intention to acquire control and to take the company private and of associate squeeze out sell out rights relevant for minority shareholders.

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.

First, countries with a diminishing stake retain disproportionate power.

Finally, there is a profound moral issue at stake.

We all have a stake in space security today.

The credibility of the United Nations is at stake.

That is substantial.

What is at stake is food security for many parts of the world. What is at stake is the long term health of the world s oceans.

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.

So there is much at stake for the old continent.

More than the advancement of science is at stake here.

That risk is substantial.

This is substantial work.

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.