He publicly backed Caldwell and slammed the minority of supporters who had jeered him. |
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More recently, although still a minority concern, there has been a steady growth of interest in republicanism. |
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A minority of Ethiopian immigrants managed to open successful restaurants that feature Abyssinian cuisine. |
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Over the next few years, Latinos will be the biggest minority group in the United States. |
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French postwar technophilia and its concomitant minority strain of technophobia have generated a significant body of scholarly literature. |
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By scanting phonics, the city has actually put minority kids at double risk. |
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In reality, of the legions of aspiring writers, directors and producers, only the tiniest minority have benefited from Lottery largesse. |
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I don't deny that we all live in troubled times, whatever minority we come from. |
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Lee said that as an Aborigine, he could sympathize with the Hakka people's status as a minority group. |
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In this way, power was shifted out of the hands of the masses and into the hands of a minority elite of technocrats and upper-income businessmen. |
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What changed, he said, wasn't so much the behavior of the police, but the expectations of the poor, especially the minority youth. |
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We have wanted, on the Intelligence Committee, the minority party, to do a full investigation of detention, interrogation and rendition. |
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And I just want to say that I have bent over backwards to be fair to minority interests. |
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There is a Swedish-speaking minority of about 250,000 people, as well as smaller populations of Lapps and Gypsies. |
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The principal minority languages are Abkhazian, Armenian, Azeri, Ossetian, and Russian. |
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Well, it's hard to prove yet on a grand scale, in part because a relative minority of people shop online. |
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If a majority votes for the strike, they rightly expect the minority to abide by the decision. |
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This minority group has long been coded in U.S. popular culture as a threat, a people who keep their motives and means well hidden. |
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Cocaine and crack cocaine were used by only a small minority of women in each group. |
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In both, a small minority seeks tolerance of behaviour that causes in the majority anything from indifference through distaste to abhorrence. |
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Only a minority are cut into sawlog and made into high value furniture, flooring or building materials. |
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Throughout this period, there had always been a minority of rebels who challenged the rule of the clock. |
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Ethnic minority doctors reported being ridiculed or made fun of when they spoke in public or semi-public meetings. |
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The minority shareholder would not have been in a position in the arbitration proceedings to pursue oppression remedies. |
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There is official support of minority groups such as Russians, Koreans, and Tatars. |
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She is struggling to frame herself as being different from her minority party backers by hopping into welfare mums. |
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The goal of enshrining minority protections before majority rule is a worthy one. |
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Many refused full equality to adherents of minority religions until well into the century. |
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The Austrian company wanted a majority stake, while Mobiltel offered a minority stake. |
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This is the first report I have seen of Muqtada being considered the Mahdi, and it is possible, though I suspect it is a minority view. |
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However, a minority let their admiration and devotion to the great saint go a tad too far. |
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This minority government will last by being progressive and attentive to some of the opposition. |
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The page proofs were laid out a few weeks in advance, and the minority panel convened for the last time to review them. |
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Old alliances with organized labor and with other minority groups must be resuscitated. |
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Other Romance minority languages, though not official, have special recognition, such as the Astur-Leonese group and Aragonese in Aragon. |
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University of California regents repeal their ban on affirmative action, hoping to send a welcoming message to minority students. |
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The parent language of Ulster Scots, Lowland Scots has been classified a minority language. |
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In the British government the Russophiles were in a minority and in February 1909 Edward VII undertook a state visit to Berlin. |
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Suppose further that a minority of the Congressional representatives of the red states also supported the petitions. |
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In both cases, steps were being taken to redress the disadvantages of minority communities. |
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The royal dynasty he founded proved remarkably durable, surviving recurrent periods of minority rule in the 15th and 16th cents. |
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In both cases, 55 per cent of respondents said these were pushing their organisation to attract recruits from minority groups. |
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I myself incline to the minority view that science alone cannot assuage our craving for human contact. |
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The minority will be restricted to their rights under the articles, unless some further informal agreement outside the articles can be found. |
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Tripoli is home to many members of Lebanon's small Alawite minority population. |
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While Asian firms make up 30 percent of all minority companies, they account for 52 percent of all receipts from minority businesses. |
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In Turkey most people speak Turkish but there is a large Kurdish minority and traditionally there were many Armenian and Greek speakers. |
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There are also two indigenous minority groups in Japan, the Ainu and the Burakumin. |
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Vietnam's minority population consists of Chinese, Khmers, and a variety of highland ethnic groups. |
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Both argued that irrespective of the form of government, be it monarchy, aristocracy, or democracy, a relatively compact minority always ruled. |
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He added that it was only a minority of drinkers causing the violent and aggressive behaviour. |
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It was created as an arena for the representation and expression of minority opinion. |
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We hope that this collection will be an invitation to further scholarship in the intersections between minority literatures and social justice. |
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The ruling states that the man is a member of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar and had been involved in pro-democracy political activities. |
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Despite being aware of the dangers, a small minority of drivers don't listen to the advice. |
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There are also anti-Taliban fighters from the Hazara ethnic minority who control parts of the exquisite, ravaged Bamiyan valley. |
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And it's the lingua franca, not the minority language, however socially powerful, which eventually wins out in these circumstances. |
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And on Monday a group of 10 men belonging to God's Army, a Karen minority rebel group, broke into a hospital in the province. |
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Nearly 100,000 members of ethnic minority groups in Myanmar, mostly Karens, have fled to Thailand to escape the fighting in their country. |
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On the flip side, minority Rover drivers are idiot boy-racers who still can't figure out which vehicles get right of way at a roundabout. |
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Growing up in South Africa during apartheid, he has a clue about what it means to have minority groups in a society. |
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In one study, ethnic minority patients were treated with less analgesia and assigned lower pain ratings than Caucasian patients. |
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It is clear from the papers that the two jurors identified in this letter were themselves members of ethnic minority communities. |
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And without provisions to protect the rights of minority Kurds and Sunnis, the entire process could collapse. |
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Local leaders said the attack was an attempt by militants to fuel a civil war between the Shiites and the minority Sunnis. |
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He's too liberal on social issues and his name sends minority communities into a rage. |
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In addition, minority men are more likely to disapprove of racial profiling than their female counterparts. |
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Once you assign someone the status of minority racial group, normal rules no longer apply. |
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The minority institutions have been accused of harbouring anti-national elements and fostering anti-national culture without a shred of evidence. |
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At present the EU has a powerful lever to put pressure on candidate countries to pay more than lip service to demands for minority rights. |
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It says it wants 10 percent minority representation, and then they have to jigger the system to figure out how to reach that number. |
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He believed whatever choice, its impact would not be felt for long as the winners would rule with a minority balance of power. |
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He was presented as the quixotic radical, the gregarious populist, the lovable dissenter, the rare honest liberal, the minority of one. |
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To spend so much for the sake of legislating against a minority doing something they never did is, to my effete southern mind, perverse. |
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In each case the ruling elites were chosen from weak minority groups in order to make their power dependent on the colonial power. |
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The civilian minority ' empowered ' by you will require heavy US military protection to withstand retaliation. |
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The onset of acne is usually around puberty, but in a minority of cases it may also start in adulthood. |
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In Germany and Italy, these groups have constituted a permanent, minority left wing within the party. |
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One of them was an article authored by Mahatma Gandhi, discussing the minority question. |
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And we don't have a computer between us, so we couldn't join by e-mail as requested, which restricts the event to a minority of people. |
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Among socially anhedonic individuals, only a minority shows schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. |
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A minority bands together and feels a kinship, if only for a moment that is as long as a muttered wassup, man? |
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Only a tiny minority had a real political role in the res publica as a whole. |
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And yet, Anglo-Indians remain a distinct, albeit comparatively small, minority in contemporary India. |
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Many other minority groups experienced the same process of acceptance through Major League baseball. |
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Instead, they attempt to use tricks and minority manipulation to force public acceptance. |
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They were not a united minority mainly due to the fact that they suffered from such blows as being leaderless and economically dependent. |
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The rights of minority francophones and Acadians do not exist because of Qubec. |
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Minority issues or rather minority grievances are scattered all over the state. |
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For the minority who want conflict, they will get a forceful answer from the Ukrainian authorities. |
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The first is pretty lower class and accounts for the minority of returns. |
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The very rigorousness and severity of its religious and ethical code of conduct have contributed to its resilience and survival as a minority in all parts of India. |
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The larger the pro-secession minority becomes, the more the majority opposed to secession will believe that Hobbes was right. |
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How an antiquated understanding of race relations results in minority staffers getting the short shrift. |
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Latinos, the fastest growing minority group in America, are even more underrepresented in Congress. |
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And there was a time, prior to the one-two punch of Catwoman and Elektra, when superhero films were championed minority heroes. |
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The twin attacks in Quetta, he says, specifically targeted the local minority Shia community. |
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As I read the Times' story, the issue in the survey was whether minority group members should be admitted over whites with higher test scores and grades. |
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While he continued to enjoy the privilege of the whip he continued to represent and be seen as part of a minority opinion within the Conservative Party, Mr Morris said. |
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But he did about as much as one can while serving as Senate minority leader to co-opt Tea Party support. |
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The two major complaints minority communities have against the police seem at first glance paradoxical. |
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The minority of these future middle verbs form the aorist normally. |
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The advancement Project says these laws could potentially disenfranchise tens of thousands of minority voters. |
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In 1920, under a League of Nations mandate, the British ruthlessly crushed a Shi'ite uprising, installing members of the Sunni minority as rulers of Iraq. |
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The unofficial rules that had kept Democrats in the majority with a complacent Republican minority were changing. |
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Exactly 20 years ago, the sitting government in Rwanda commenced a genocide against minority Tutsi and moderate Hutu populations. |
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While debate rages over ever-increasing diagnosis rates of ADHD in children, a quiet minority has been slowly building. |
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There, many minority parents supported Tom Torklarson, who favored the education reform agenda. |
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To not give in to profiteers, paid-off politicians and an extreme minority who hate its government and way of life. |
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It was humiliating for the GOP majority to play the handmaiden to minority leader Nancy Pelosi. |
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Nothing burns me up more than to see a rich, white, educated defendant walk out of the courthouse on bail when a minority defendant who did the same thing is under the jail. |
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We have also acquired a controlling interest in the lexicons of both Armenian and Uzbeck, as well as a minority shareholding in several obscure Romance dialects. |
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A very substantial minority speaks a form of Persian called Tajik. |
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A minority still believed that it was possible and necessary to resist Germany, and refused to let anti-Communism blind them to the necessity for a Soviet alliance. |
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Razali is scheduled to hold a joint meeting with leaders of minority groups including the Shans, Kayins, Mons and Rakhines later in the day at his hotel. |
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But Palin, like McGovern, represents an avid, countercultural minority that overestimates its own appeal and overplays its hand. |
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Many of the unemployed youth who were recruited into the army as cannon fodder in its vicious war against the country's Tamil minority have deserted. |
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It excludes children and families of minority faiths and beliefs and creates a hostile environment for them. |
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The national media has been rooting for Haley, who would be the first woman and first ethnic minority governor of South Carolina. |
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And so scorning the whole idea of competition just because it can backfire in a tiny minority feels reflexive and unnecessary. |
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For the Caucasian minority in prison, white supremacy is still the sub-culture of choice. |
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While drug use has been found to reflect percentages similar to the entire population, drug dealing is often thought to be a lower-class minority phenomenon. |
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Netanyahu can no longer claim to be hobbled on the peace front by coalition politics and resistance from his minority parties. |
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Rushkoff seems here to be looking for the minority report, the one interpretation that satisfies his model. |
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The systemic redlining of minority and mixed-race neighborhoods economically depressed the market value of homes in those communities and fueled white flight to the suburbs. |
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Veterans are a small minority of the population, as well, serving the Greater whole. |
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Yet race politics has limited appeal to whites, and ultimately may not guarantee keeping many minority voters in check. |
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But what political price is there to pay for en masse targeting of politically unempowered minority groups? |
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Is an out-of-state, no-name bell maker like Bevin really going to knock off the Senate minority leader? |
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And until Government starts properly funding schools, they will always struggle to keep out this tiny minority who can cause such wholesale destruction. |
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Over the last few years, a vocal minority of local residents have raised objections to assignations by gay men in the Square in the middle of the night. |
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Democracy means majority rule, but it also means minority rights. |
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Plus, it enables smaller minority groups to share their own story on their own terms with millions of people across the country. |
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Although Indonesians, Nepalis, Pakistanis, and Thais are prominent in the SAR, the most significant minority group consists of Filipino domestic helpers. |
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Less common early psychiatric features were behavioural change, anergia, and poor performance, and a minority of cases exhibited pain as an early neurological feature. |
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It must nevertheless be recorded that a minority of physicists have found themselves unable to accept this view of Quantum Mechanics, so strongly advocated by Bohr. |
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And look, call me self-centered, but I can think of one minority they could start with. |
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You reap what you sow, and Republicans are paying the price for elevating a minority within their party. |
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Baboo believes that research on retention will prove an effective aid to help colleges and universities do a better job with their minority students. |
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The Sunni minority in Bahrain could not last without Saudi money and tanks. |
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Although Shias are a minority in Pakistan, the shops along the route were closed that day, a national holiday known as ashura. |
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A considerable minority even consider themselves atheists or agnostics. |
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He said they represented a minority opinion not reflected in the wider republican community which, time and again, had endorsed the strategy of the Sinn Fein leadership. |
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Today, the Republicans can call upon an array of minority senators, governors, and congressmen. |
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They became a minority in the state for the first time since early in its development. |
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But in a minority government scenario, the governor general might still be called upon to play a part. |
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And in all of this medley of extemporania, Nixon could count on the faithful support of the minority leader of the House, Mr. Gerald Ford. |
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The 2011 elections resulted in a minority Labour administration led by Carwyn Jones. |
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There are instances recorded where women participated both in warfare and in kingship, although they were in the minority in these areas. |
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Second, that the early settlers may have arrived in considerable numbers but represented a minority relative to the natives. |
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Apart from these, German, Yiddish and Romani are recognized minority languages in Scandinavia. |
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Norway has been a progressive country, which has adopted legislation and policies to support women's rights, minority rights and LGBT rights. |
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During his minority the nobles again attempted to seize power, but they were defeated by Charles' sister Anne of France. |
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She decreed in her will that her husband would be the regent during the minority of their child. |
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A small minority of critical scholars were slow to accept the latest translation. |
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The two sides had their geographical strongholds, such that minority elements were silenced or fled. |
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House minority whip... Gingrich has earned enmity in abundance for his junkyard-dog tactics. |
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There are some other minority languages of the Scottish people, such as Spanish, used by the population of Scots in Argentina. |
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Gaelic language is recognised as a minority Language by the European Union. |
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The SNP governed as a minority administration at Holyrood following the 2007 Scottish Parliament election. |
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In this case, the options for forming the Government are either a minority government or a coalition government. |
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Miliband's comments suggested to many that he was working towards forming a minority government. |
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At the same time, however, the Speaker is charged with protecting the interests of the minority by ensuring sufficient debate before a vote. |
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However MacDonald was still reliant on Liberal support to form a minority government. |
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However they lost 9 out of their 20 seats on the Brighton and Hove council, losing minority control. |
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Latinos have quickly become the largest ethnic minority in the United States. |
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Today, the mix of cereals and vegetables grown is similar to that of the UK as a whole, but only a minority of land is arable. |
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Wilson formed a minority government in March 1974 after the general election on 28 February ended in a hung parliament. |
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Those in the minority are asked to give the action they would have preferred. |
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The community is widely dispersed across the country and currently makes the lowest use of health services of all minority ethnic groups. |
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Members of minority groups are prone to different treatment in the countries and societies in which they live. |
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Activists campaigning on a range of issues may use the language of minority rights, including student rights, consumer rights, and animal rights. |
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The minority status is conditioned not only by a clearly numerical relations but also by questions of political power. |
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Spain does not divide its nationals by ethnic group, although it does maintain an official notion of minority languages. |
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Icelandic is the official language of Iceland, and is spoken by a significant minority in the Faroe Islands. |
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Professional economists are expected to be familiar with these tools, while a minority specialize in econometrics and mathematical methods. |
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In the Canadian province of Quebec, for example, laws restrict the use of the minority English in education, on signs, and in the workplace. |
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However, its minority languages include Sorbian, Romani, Danish and North Frisian, which are officially recognised. |
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The FCNM provides certain rights and protections to a national minority with regard to their minority language. |
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In 2002 Cornish was officially recognised as a UK minority language and in 2005 it received limited Government funding. |
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Gypsies and Travellers have historically been Herefordshire's largest minority ethnic group. |
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Excluding regional minority languages, German is the only official language of. |
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The council is currently No Overall Control with the Labour Party leading a minority administration. |
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A small minority of Gurneyite Friends practice entirely unprogrammed worship. |
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In recent history, sustained meditation has been pursued by a minority of monks in Buddhist monasteries. |
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Long imitative paragraphs are the exception, often kept for final climactic sections in the minority of extended motets. |
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The majority group listens to the commercially produced styles while the subcultures find a minority style to transmit their own values. |
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However, the proposed changes were criticised by some for not going far enough, particularly to improve minority representation. |
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Yet it is unclear whether these political changes will be enough to reverse the decline of minority Romance languages. |
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Entities that are recognised by only a minority of the world's states usually reference the declarative doctrine to legitimise their claims. |
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These inequalities often occur on the lines of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or other minority status within countries. |
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A significant Protestant minority remained, most of it adhering to the Calvinist faith. |
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While piracy was predominantly a male occupation throughout history, a minority of pirates were female. |
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The official Liberals found themselves a tiny minority within a government committed to protectionism. |
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Instead a minority Labour government was formed under Harold Wilson but with no formal support from Thorpe. |
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She also played a key role as dowager-regent during the minority of her son. |
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As in 1852, Derby led a minority government, dependent on the division of its opponents for survival. |
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This was grudgingly agreed to by the House of Lords, with a minority of Conservatives joining with the opposition to pass it. |
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Northern Ireland is still part of the United Kingdom, but has a nationalist minority who would prefer to be part of a united Ireland. |
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In May 1929, a minority Labour government headed by Ramsay MacDonald came to office with Liberal support. |
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The Republic of Czechoslovakia was home to a substantial minority of Germans, who lived mostly in the Sudetenland. |
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Labour formed a minority government and went on to win a narrow majority in the October 1974 general election. |
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Anne preferred to retain a minority government rather than be dictated to by Parliament. |
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The problem might lie with a minority of officers, but it is still a significant problem, and a problem that needs to be addressed. |
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They were widely criticized as creating a hostile atmosphere for members of ethnic minority groups. |
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With their success in the 1923 general election, Labour were able to form their first minority government, led by Ramsay MacDonald. |
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The campaign for independence has also enjoyed support from a minority of trade unionists. |
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The 2007 election also saw Plaid Cymru's Mohammad Asghar become the first ethnic minority candidate elected to the Welsh Assembly. |
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The party pledges support for minority rights, migrants' rights, and eradicating poverty. |
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The Scottish Green Party agreed to support an SNP minority administration on a confidence and supply basis. |
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Jones opted to form a minority government as opposed to continuing the coalition, allowing Labour to govern alone. |
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Most minority ethnic groups experience greater material deprivation than the white majority but social participation is, on average, higher. |
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The first chairman and minority shareholder of the company became Lord Strathcona. |
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Tamil language is taught in Canada and South Africa for the local Tamil minority populations. |
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For the first time and thereafter, Lords Spiritual formed a minority in the House of Lords. |
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Complete rejection, and uncritical acceptance, of this movement are both minority positions among New Zealand Brethren today. |
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Turkic languages include Azerbaijani and Turkish, in addition to the languages of minority nations in Russia. |
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Multilingualism and the protection of regional and minority languages are recognised political goals in Europe today. |
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Female artists were distinctly a minority amongst the male dominated environment of the Young British Artists. |
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Freeness allowed the creativity of unsigned contemporary British ethnic minority artists to be heard. |
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Olympic Handball is a minority sport in Ireland despite it being the second most popular team sport in Europe. |
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Other smaller minority languages include Mandaic, Shabaki, Armenian, Circassian and Persian. |
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A number of ethnic minority groups in southern Ethiopia also adhere to various traditional faiths. |
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Additionally, Omotic languages are spoken by ethnic minority groups inhabiting the southern regions. |
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Additionally, Omotic languages are spoken by Omotic ethnic minority groups inhabiting the southern regions. |
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Only a minority of Ethiopians are born in hospitals, while most are born in rural households. |
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Polish people make up the largest minority group by a considerable margin, and still form the bulk of the foreign workforce. |
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Though now minority religions, Hinduism and Buddhism remain defining influences in Indonesian culture. |
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However, it is true that in a small minority of cases, women hunt the same kind of quarry as men, sometimes doing so alongside men. |
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The general election of 1892 resulted in a minority Liberal government with Gladstone as Prime Minister. |
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The House of Lords judged that the minority continuing after the 1900 union were entitled to all the assets. |
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The minority of the Free Church of Scotland who continued outside the union of 1900, retained the title the Free Church of Scotland. |
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However, a minority in the Free Church Assembly protested, and threatened to test its legality in the courts. |
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However, a minority of the original Free Church remained outside this new union. |
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The protesting and dissenting minority at once claimed to be the legitimate Free Church. |
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When the government is formed by a coalition, the Deputy First Minister is usually the leader of the minority partner. |
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He was later appointed Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth in the Cabinet of the minority SNP government. |
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After the hung result led the Conservatives to seek DUP support for a minority government, this rhetoric was mocked by opponents. |
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The Scottish National Party formed a minority government as a result of the election. |
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Most of the participating nations were from Europe and South America, with a small minority from North America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. |
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The majority of the community speaks English, with a minority of residents speaking both English and Gaelic. |
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King John also died that year, and he also left an underage heir in King Henry III with a minority government set up in England. |
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In 1220, Llywelyn induced the minority government of King Henry to acknowledge Dafydd as his heir. |
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The Labour party was split on home rule for Wales with a vocal minority opposed. |
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Washington's first term in office directed attention to poor and previously neglected minority neighborhoods. |
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After the Eastern European people, the Welsh people represents a significant minority there. |
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Supporters of Breton and other minority languages continue to argue for their recognition, education in public schools and place in public life. |
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When the former states of North and South Yemen were established, most resident minority groups departed. |
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However, outside of a few municipalities, these organisations were a minority and fell easily to Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War. |
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The language is used both as an official language and as a minority language in various European countries. |
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Other minority groups have formed organizations to support fellow birders and these include the Gay birders and the Disabled Birders Association. |
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After the Schleswig referendum in 1920 a number of Danes remained as a minority within German territories. |
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This committee recommended that the Frisian language would receive legal status as a minority language. |
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North Frisian is a minority language of Germany, spoken by about 10,000 people in North Frisia. |
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It is protected as a minority language and has become an official language in the Nordfriesland district and on Heligoland island. |
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This may explain why negative attitudes toward Nynorsk persist, as is seen with many minority languages. |
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The Finland Swedish minority is concentrated in the coastal areas and archipelagos of southern and western Finland. |
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There is a lobby for recognising the Zeelandic regional language under the European charter for minority languages. |
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For example, in Quebec, the Ashkenazic majority has adopted English, while the Sephardic minority uses French as its primary language. |
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In February 2009, the Labour group resigned and the Liberal Democrats took office with a minority administration. |
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Most North Americans and Europeans favor sweet, subacid apples, but tart apples have a strong minority following. |
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The vicissitudes of its later growth were rooted in its minority status in a situation of international tension. |
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A minority of Native Americans live in land units called Indian reservations. |
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If no majority is formed, a minority government can be formed if support from other parties during confidence and supply votes is assured. |
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Many sites have large quantities of flat stones apparently used as flooring, with only a minority decorated. |
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However, in reality the southern Africans have always been in a minority within the African elephant range states. |
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Many projects aim to prevent or slow this loss by revitalizing endangered languages and promoting education and literacy in minority languages. |
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A substantial minority of today's Ossetians are followers of the traditional Ossetian religion. |
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There are also several minority sports clubs, including four cricket clubs. |
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Estonia also had an important Swedish minority which persisted for about 650 years on the coast and isles. |
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The Longobards were a small minority compared to the roughly four million people in Italy at the time. |
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Baltic Finns are also significant minority groups in neighbouring countries of Sweden, Norway and Russia. |
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The Finnish language has official status as one of five minority languages in Sweden. |
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German is spoken by a minority in Southern Jutland and their cultural and language rights are protected by the government. |
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The right to use sign language is set in the Finnish Language Act and in Sweden the Swedish sign language is an official minority language. |
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Ethnogenesis can be promoted to include or exclude any ethnic minority living within a certain country. |
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During the Great Patriotic War, some minority languages were banned, and their speakers accused of collaborating with the enemy. |
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Further minority languages have traditionally been spoken by regional population groups in various parts of the country. |
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Some of the immigrants from Albania are from the Greek minority in Albania centred on the region of Northern Epirus. |
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The minority languages Slovene, Croatian and Hungarian are spoken and officially recognized. |
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However, many nation states accept specific minorities as being part of the nation, and the term national minority is often used in this sense. |
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Examples are people of Baltic and Scandinavian descent, who assimilated into the minority of the Baltic Germans. |
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Tensions between the new administration and the ethnic German minority arose in the Polish Corridor. |
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During the social and economic tensions of the Great Depression, some had begun to feel aggrieved with their minority status. |
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Students in ethnic minority areas score consistently lower in standardised national and international tests. |
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The north is the chief destination for trekking and adventure travel with its diverse ethnic minority groups and forested mountains. |
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The largest of Thailand's minority languages is the Lao dialect of Isan spoken in the northeastern provinces. |
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The reason for this are to be found in the polysectarian nature of Lebanon with the largest sect being a minority of the total population. |
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A very small minority of Saudi citizens are Shia Muslims, and there is also a large foreign workforce. |
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Most amateurs work at visible wavelengths, but a small minority experiment with wavelengths outside the visible spectrum. |
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Sierra Leone has a significant minority of the Krio people, who are descendants of freed African American and West Indian slaves. |
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Other minority ethnic groups are the Kuranko, who are related to the Mandingo, and are largely Muslims. |
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Since independence Namibia has successfully completed the transition from white minority apartheid rule to parliamentary democracy. |
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Among the majority of Latin speakers lived a large minority of Greek traders and slaves. |
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The society said it expected to have ethnic minority members in the future. |
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There is also Chitty Village for the minority Chitty people which houses the Chitty Museum. |
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Most are of Armenian background, as well as a sizable minority of Assyrians. |
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A minority of Marshallese have some recent Asian ancestry, mainly Japanese. |
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They also form the largest minority group in China without an autonomous region. |
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According to the Euromosaic study, some regional or minority languages spoken within the EU do not have official recognition at EU level. |
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