The system is set up so that two are of the majority party and the third is of the minority party.
David McLetchie asked the first minister whether he would agree with the comments of the president of the National Association of Schoolmasters who say education for the majority is being seriously hampered by the bad behaviour of a minority.
Liberals like to boast that they are defenders of civil rights and constitutional freedoms, especially in protecting the rights of the minority against the majority.
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As Alex Boraine, who served as deputy to Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the commission, reminds us, the offer of forgiveness which formed the centrepiece of the commission was the outcome of compromise between white minority rulers and the unenfranchised black majority: the price of securing a peaceful transition, and in particular the co-operation of the apartheid security services.
And one of those groups, the majority minority Hispanics, will represent 30% of the U.S. population alone by 2050.
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"All children are at risk of drowning, but the majority of the children that the Josh Project serves are minority children, who we have found are more at risk, " Butts said.
What Madison failed to grasp is that in the very extended republic he was advocating, permanent majority faction gives way to temporary, transient factions of both the majority and minority varieties.
At this point the will of the majority must prevail unless the action specifically eliminates rights of the minority.
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Given there are thousands of self-published authors on the Kindle, this does emphasise that self-publishing is just as much of a power law venture as any other, with the majority of the earnings going to a minority of authors.
There the row was between the Muslim Hausa majority and the Christian minority over the appointment of a new Hausa emir for the town, and which community's cultural tradition should predominate.
Steve Shrubb, director of the NHS Confederation's Mental Health Network which represents the majority of mental health trusts, said tackling the over-representation of minority ethnic groups in mental health wards was the biggest challenge facing providers.
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Democracy not only means the rule of the majority, it also mandates respect for the minority.
The classic examples of this traditional minority-majority engagement are the black civil rights movement in the US in the 1960s and the labor movements in the West throughout the 20th century.
Smith has been in office since 2000 and has been both majority and minority leader of the state Senate.
However, Balotelli believes it is not fair that the majority of the supporters should suffer because of the behaviour of a minority.
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The interdisciplinary study would examine the experience of modern males, particularly those under 35, in a moment in history when they are the minority of college graduates, the majority of suicide victims, have shorter life spans and increasingly suffer psychological problems.
In the Senate, meanwhile, Democrats are threatening to make it harder for the Republican minority to obstruct the will of the majority.
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If the Democrat-controlled legislature fails to approve a budget by the necessary two-thirds majority (always possible, given the size of the Republican minority), or if the governor decides to veto the budget, the previous year's spending levels will automatically continue.
However, as you may have seen in our hands-on already, HTC's colorful cases for the One X should take care of some of the minority while also letting the majority protect their phones.
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Because last night, even though a majority of senators voted in favor of the American Jobs Act, a Republican minority got together as a group and blocked this jobs bill from passing the Senate.
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Mr Clarke said police work would continue to drive home the message that the "drunken behaviour of the minority" would not be allowed to "impact the lives of the decent majority of people who enjoy a sensible drink with family and friends".
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I'm hopeful that his experience as minority and majority leader of the Senate can help us forge a new partnership with the Congress, especially on foreign and national security policies.
That is, a minority may prevent the majority of taxpayers from financing the level of public services they desire.
Among the signatories of the letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell were: former National Security Advisor William P.
But right now, they are very concerned -- the Sunnis, for instance -- that this is simply sort of a rule of the majority with actually no concern for the minority.
"The majority would vote to overturn the president's veto on this, but enough of a minority wants to stay with the president's position on this that that veto is likely to be sustained, " said Robert Blendon, a professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health who helped design the poll.
The only reason why it might not pass the Senate is because a minority of Republicans, led by the Republican leader, would filibuster that bill -- a pretty stark indication of the state of things when a bill that has majority support is blocked by a minority, when that bill would avert the problem that we have confronting us with this imminent deadline.
Even in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, Christians who had once been in the majority were now a "marginalised minority", he added.
One compelling reason for change in the banking industry is that the evidence that a minority of banking consumer bore the brunt of these fees with the majority enjoying the benefit of free checking and debit cards.
This is because much of the internal strife between minority and majority populations within states today is financed and often directed from outside the country.
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