political minority

Is it unacceptable to be part of a political minority?

The treaty also granted certain rights for political minorities on either side of the border.

And only if it didn't mind handing over the power to tip the outcome to a political minority.

Political minorities are encouraged to fight for their views.

"The Senate is, after all, an institution that enshrines rights of a political minority.

Because, in truth, it is primarily for political minorities that liberties should be granted and defended.

These groups constantly faced opposition from a strong political minority of Orthodox Jews living in the city.

Religious sects, political minorities, philosophic groups - or just plain pioneers, out to make a fresh start.

Mr Gollnisch is in the wrong where the law is concerned because he is in the political minority.

While properly defending the rights of ethnic, religious and sexual minorities, we must also bear political minorities in mind.

This is primarily due to their belief that majority rule voting systems will erode the liberty of social and political minorities.

Some political minorities, secure in their indignation, veer toward the utopian or the doctrinaire.

On July 5, a new Consitution went into effect that guarantees new rights for political minorities.

Merits or qualifications making people suitable for a judicial post will no longer be relevant, but rather solely their affinity with a political minority.

The executive had a visible influence on the decisions of the judiciary, especially the Supreme Court, and displayed a certain contempt for political minorities.

No matter the social status, however, loyalist women were a part of a political minority, therefore lacking the support of neighbors and friends through hardship.

He said the provision also denied equal protection of the laws by discriminating against strikers and their families as "an unpopular political minority."

When a parliament considers that those in the political minority are legally wrong, we are no longer in a democracy but close to dictatorship.

The move has little to do with actually reducing abortion abroad and everything to do with obeisance to a militant political minority at home.

Hitler and his men persecuted and killed Jews and other ethnic, religious, and political minorities.

The death penalty is almost always imposed on disadvantaged individuals, belonging in some countries to economic or ethnic minorities, in others to political minorities.

"If we accept the discrimination that today they want to establish against religious minorities, tomorrow these same radical forces will turn against ethnic or political minorities."

But after three terms, he tired of being in the political minority, because in Albany it was nearly impossible for the minority to get any legislation through.

As the constitution implemented very strong protections for political minorities, most changes in legislation and state finances could be blocked by a qualified minority of one third.

By this time, the French-speaking majority of Lower Canada had become a political minority in a unified Canada.