minority

In a sentence

Six example sentences with minority, each labelled with its topic.

• The party's rural minority held only nine seats but could block any bill that needed a two thirds vote.

  Politics

• The island's Greek speaking minority kept its own schools and liturgy for four centuries under three different empires.

  History

• Mill argued that a minority whose views offend everyone else is exactly the case a free society must protect.

  Philosophy

• The treaty obliged each new state to let its linguistic minority run schools in its own language, a clause courts enforced twice.

  Law

• The novelist wrote in the language of a minority the national curriculum never taught, and translations arrived decades later.

  Literature

• Economists tracked wages for the region's ethnic minority and found the gap narrowed only in towns with a second employer.

  Economics

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