To believe that technology can be our savior was a minority opinion in the counterculture.

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If your actions are criticized, the leaderly thing to do is to answer the critics, engage them, but remember that nowadays a minority opinion can get attention that is way out of proportion to the actual influence of that particular group.

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The conservative opposition - which leads Julia Gillards minority coalition government in the opinion polls - has called the media inquiry a "naked attempt to intimidate the media".

BBC: Australia plans media inquiry after UK hacking scandal

In every test so far of activist opinion, the small minority which does the work of stuffing envelopes and knocking on doors has backed Mr Duncan Smith.

ECONOMIST: Tory leadership

Their leaders were learned and judicious men, a minority whose excellence derived not from popular opinion or emotion but from the Enlightenment and its pro-reason virtues.

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"A majority of people are of an opinion separate" from that of a minority, Larijani said.

CNN: Iran media: Council rejects claims of voting irregularities

Opinion polls consistently show that only a tiny minority of Corsicans want independence from France.

ECONOMIST: A referendum in Corsica

The opinion polls make particularly bad reading for the Labour Party and its minority government, led by Thorbjorn Jagland, who took over from Gro Harlem Brundtland as party leader and prime minister last October.

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This characterization of the minority party is common in the news media as well, and not just the conservative opinion journals.

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As the senior Justice in the minority, John Paul Stevens assigned the main dissent to Souter, who was working on the opinion when he announced his departure, on April 30th.

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