A. in Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University, where he received the National Minority Leadership Fellowship from the Kellogg Foundation.
Israeli governments of whatever stripe have always preferred to treat their Arab citizens less in terms of what they are a national minority of Palestinian Arabs who stayed on their lands after the Jewish state was established in 1948 than in terms of the religion they espouse.
Over the weekend, the opposition Syrian National Council elected minority Kurdish activist Abdul Basit Sieda to unite dissidents seeking to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Under the Public Administration Law passed in Romania last year, if a national or ethnic minority makes up over 20% of the population of a given settlement, they have the right to street signs, schools, and official proceedings in their own language.
The lessons we learned took shape in the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, which has grown into a national model for producing minority students who earn advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering and math.
Today while similar movements continue to flourish, they are now being superseded by a new type of minority challenge to national majorities.
On the one hand, their local political leaders demand extraordinary communal rights, rights accorded neither to the national majority nor to other minority populations.
Mr. Carter is a minority owner in the National Basketball Association's Brooklyn Nets.
That wobbled along until 1998 when the coalition split, and the National Party carried on as a minority government.
For too long and to our unmitigated detriment Israelis have allowed a small unelected minority to dictate our national policies.
They put some of that cash to use last August when they became minority owners of the National Football League's Miami Dolphins.
Buddhism is the country's major religion, although according to the Thailand National Statistics Office there are also minority Christian and Islamic communities.
Irish talk radio programs have been afire with discussions about the propiority of making a 66 year-old self-made tycoon of global proportions (Quinn was termed the 164th richest man in the world by Forbes in 2008) a national scapegoat, as a substantial minority of the population (especially those in border counties near his own) and some his former job holders avow.
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Fidelity National Financial will retain a 15% minority ownership position in the personal lines business.
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In practice, these regions enjoy no more autonomy than do provinces, though the national party makes some token efforts toward minority representation.
The process is analogous to the Rooney rule in the National Football League where teams must interview minority candidates for head positions.
McCain and Republicans have worked to have a presence with the NAACP, the National Black Chamber of Commerce and other minority advocacy groups.
There is growing agreement that the poor school performance of many minority and disadvantaged children is a national disgrace.
That might also help him recover support among the highly entrepreneurial ethnic Chinese minority, who have deserted the National Front in droves.
He took the gamble that the Nats' influence as a minority partner in a government of national unity would be preserved by the loyalty of the old civil service, the army and the police.
Among the signatories of the letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell were: former National Security Advisor William P.
"Today's acknowledgement by the Obama administration that the IRS did in fact target conservative groups in the heat of last year's national election is not enough, " said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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One of the most basic causes of this continuous erosion of national power throughout the world is the transformation of minority-dominated enclaves within nation-states into ungovernable areas where state power is either not applied or applied in a haphazard and generally unconstructive manner.
Richard Winder, deputy national coordinator of NHS cancer screening programmes, said a minority of British women with the disease had mastectomies.
Under a power-sharing deal signed in August, the Tutsi minority will have 40% of government and national assembly posts, compared to 60% for Hutus.
As a result of the sale process, Verizon Wireless signed agreements with seven companies, including one national carrier, five rural or regional carriers and one minority-owned firm.
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The latest statistics -- which also count the national population younger than 5 as 49.7% minority in 2011, an increase from 49% in 2010 -- portend a future of a more racially diverse America, with new and growing populations playing more important roles politically and economically in years to come, analysts say.
With an acute shortage of people who can teach in minority languages, illiteracy is much higher than the national average.
In 1992, with the BJP's then-president in attendance, organized Hindu mobs destroyed the mosque--the first example of a national political party associating with a campaign of violence against a minority.
Try passing more voter ID laws, just months before a national election, designed to make it more difficult for members of minority communities to achieve proper identification so that they might cast their vote.
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