The NPT review conference's campaign against Israel shows that the 222 organizations supporting Hamas are a reflection of the will of the majority - not a minority - of the nations of the world.
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.
But likewise, we must not fall into the politics of envy, where perhaps a different majority looks upon the assets of a minority and sees not private property, but a money pot ready to be tapped.
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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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The airlines are in an impossible situation here, and appear to be caving into political correctness: catering to the complaints of a vocal minority while ignoring the comfort of the majority.
They use their control over the public discourse to present the sentiments of the majority of Israelis as if they were the views of a small, fanatical minority.
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Democracy not only means the rule of the majority, it also mandates respect for the minority.
You should ask the Speaker of the House, the Majority Leader, the Senate Minority Leader, do they believe President Reagan was wrong when he said that back in 1985, saying essentially word for word what the President said today?
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.
That was one takeaway from a new spurt of violence between Buddhists and Muslims (mostly the former majority setting upon the latter minority) that this time came within 100 miles of Yangon (Rangoon).
Without these basic freedoms, free trade will hardly take shape, and will benefit the corrupt minority of officials and not the majority of the people, who live in poverty.
The court ruled that the wishes of the majority to ban same-sex marriage could not trample the constitutional-rights of the minority.
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Second, for all America's faith in capitalism, the economic calamity of 2008 helped the minority fool the majority into thinking that the crisis was caused by the private sector and that the state knew how to solve it.
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.
In other words, I wonder just how far along we would be as a society if the oppressive majority held all of the legislative and judicial power over the oppressed minority, essentially yanking the teeth out of Congress and the Supreme Court.
One of the commissions is examining the ways in which the Hindu minority of Jammu, and the Buddhist minority of Ladakh, can be protected from domination by the Muslim majority if the state is granted more autonomy.
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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