The vast majority of the population in the Altamira area are Mestizos and integrated Indians.
The majority of the population in every one of Mexico's 100 poorest municipalities is of indigenous descent, says Mr Abreu.
Infrastructure minister David Cretney said a limit could not be easily enforced and was not supported by the majority of the population.
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The majority of the population here appears to favour seeing Milosevic tried in Serbia first and then eventually at the War Crimes Tribunal.
While the tight wallets of the majority of the population are cause for concern, the spending of the wealthy may contribute to the overall economic recovery.
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Shiites, who represent the majority of the population in Iraq, want direct elections, but coalition officials say that can't be pulled off in the few months before the political handover at the end of June.
In the case of Peru, the vast majority of the population has already rejected the verdict and many supporters or independents that recognize Fujimori's achievements have gone to the streets to express their frustration with the sentence.
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By then, England was the first country in the world where the majority of the population would be living in cities (albeit riddled with tuberculosis, for which a winter visit to the Alps in due course became de rigueur).
But its booming economy of recent years has increased the purchasing power of its population and moved an estimated 20 million out of poverty, with the majority of the population now in the middle class for the first time ever.
"I think the majority of the population think that if somebody has got a foetus that, if born, will have a severe disability they should have the right to choose whether or not to continue with that pregnancy, " she said.
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The majority of the population here will never have the means to travel to international museums to view paintings and sculptors by the masters and Mr. Slim has provided a venue, with free admission, for all those interested in the art world to have these pieces within easy reach.
Northwestern Europe's new social and economic structure consigned the vast majority of the population to miserably impoverished lives.
This service is ideal for regions of the world where a large majority of the population may not have bank accounts or where international wires are cost-prohibitive.
Fewer than a quarter of Indonesians, Turks, Pakistanis and Jordanians, and a tenth of Moroccans, support the war on terror. (The survey was completed before the May 16th terrorist attack in Casablanca.) By contrast, in seven of the Muslim countries surveyed, a majority of the population imagined that America might become a military threat to their country.
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The decline of the US economy for the majority of the American working population is an important issue.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan from solemnly intoning that the real task is get the Net into the hands of that majority of the world's population that hasn't never even made a telephone call.
Respondents were asked about the difficulty of finding a job as a Moroccan compared to the experience of those from the majority native population.
Far from intending to threaten the religious or civil liberties of the majority Christian population (which remains vastly superior in numbers), the goal was to create a common framework of laws but otherwise leave everyone to their own devices.
But the real fault line in Iraq is between the Shia majority (roughly 60% of the population) and the Sunnis (about 20%).
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Since the economy is a shambles, and a majority of the population, according to various polls, want either confederation with Serbia or independence, Montenegro faces growing pressure at home to push for a split.
Minorities comprised the majority population in 11% of the nation's 3, 143 counties.
Almost six million Poles, including the majority of the country's large Jewish population, died during the devastating six-year conflict.
However, this history has less meaning for younger Kuwaitis, who make up a majority of the population.
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Nationwide, nonwhites are expected to become a majority of the population within a generation, and schools are at the cutting edge of that historic shift.
Though not a majority of the population, they have organized to defeat school budgets that increase taxes and to elect members of their own communities to the board.
An opinion poll released Wednesday by polling group Ifop and Le Monde newspaper found 65% of those surveyed support equal marriage rights for same-sex couples -- a clear majority of the population.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Voters in Diyala province -- the district north of Baghdad with a majority Sunni Arab population -- are backing the country's draft constitution, according to early figures released from last week's referendum on the law.
They feel they are being done down by a compact between the majority Shia Arabs (about 60% of the population, especially concentrated in the south of the country) and the Kurds (around 20%, based mainly in the north).
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