Even the minority who participated in workfare typically hold an assigned job less than two months.

Women and minorities held 27 percent of "executive management" positions in 2003, up from 20 percent in 2001.

Even that small total represents a big increase over the number of licenses - 40 - that minorities held in 1978.

Although most people of the world are not white, thereby making whites a minority, this minority often holds power in society.

Under the new plan, minorities hold a majority in only one district, but account for at least 28 percent in five other districts.

A small minority held that something concrete had indeed happened on October 22, but this event had been misinterpreted.

In many cases, the survey determined that minorities held more negative views of other minorities than do whites.

Prior to 1994, a white minority held complete political power under a system of racial segregation called apartheid.

A country where a small minority, defined by race, held all economic and political power.

In all three of these faiths today, a significant minority of people still hold to this approach.