Latinos, it's often noted, will become the dominant minority in the United States in the next several years.

Hispanics, at 29 percent, have become the dominant minority in the game.

The term market dominant minority has also been used.

Since independence in 1961, it has been plagued by tension between the dominant Tutsi minority and the Hutu majority.

The tension between a dominant minority and the larger majority, in democratic cases, often becomes central to national politics.

Other examples of dominant minorities that have been said to exist, or to have existed in the past include:

The official name of an autonomous prefecture includes the most dominant minority in that region, sometimes two, rarely three.

Here there is the military dictatorship, the civilian strongman or a permanently dominant minority.

The religious right - not to be confused with religious Americans in general - isn't a majority, or even a dominant minority.

That, he predicts, will provoke confrontations with blacks, the city's dominant minority.