Impracticable, because it would condemn to inevitable Germanization the very strong Bohemian minorities living in German districts on the border.
A land that has a German head and a Slavonic body, in which minorities rule and majorities are made to obey, the homeland of a dozen races, every one of which is dissatisfied or jealous of some other race.
Certainly nothing very striking in the way of constructive work could reasonably be expected from the minorities of the Socialists and Labour men hitherto elected.
By the use of all these means, majorities in the interest of railroad companies are secured, or such strong minorities as will prevent unfriendly legislation.
Should self-discipline and self-criticism falter, militant minorities must urge and initiate those revolutionary changes which are necessary for the health and well-being of any ailing human community.
The purpose of these minorities has revolved around the provision of comforts and luxuries for the decision makers and their dependents and the increase of their wealth and power.
Education was resisted, industry discouraged, and the religious rights of minorities assailed by ignorant and fanatical mobs.
The Sauls are transformed into Pauls, and powerlessminorities into triumphing majorities.
It is the cumulative power given by Rowland Hill that secures that minorities will not be extinguished.
It does so in a great measure at present, though not so much so as I could wish, but every extension of the suffrage will tend to extinguish the minorities more and more.
Well, and what does Rowland Hill say about the minorities that ye care muckle for?
Justice to individuals and to unpopular minorities is a matter of far greater importance and far more difficult to secure than the regular payment of Ireland's contribution to Imperial expenditure.
Federalism would at lowest preserve a formal respect for justice, and if the system worked efficiently, would protect individuals and minorities from gross oppression at the hands of the Irish State Government.
That is to say, small minorities would become majorities, or great majorities would become small minorities, within an interval during which lesser changes were occurring elsewhere.
All Turks who have passed thence into Hither Asia have come in comparatively small detachments, as minorities to alien majorities.
The stories of the minorities of James II, James III, and James V read almost like repetitions of each other.
The frequent occurrence of royal minorities was at once a cause and a consequence of this condition of matters.
Each district returns three members, but to assure the representation ofminorities electors are permitted to vote for but two.
Through the revival of scrutin de liste, with a large department or a group of small ones as the electoral area, and with the device of representation of minorities added, (p.
There is in France a growing demand for the adoption of some scheme whereby minorities within the several departments shall become entitled to a proportionate voice in the Chamber at Paris.
But national egotism tending to the suppression of other nationalities or of minorities is, no less than individual egotism, a sin against the Creator of all peoples and races.
The first signals of revolutionary thinking lurk dimly among the oppressed minorities during intervals of disaster.
There is an implied contract that no part shall ever be preferred to the whole, and minorities shall always obey.
It was to receive the plaints of minorities and of individuals against the legislature, and to preserve the spirit of the organic institutions against the omnipotence of the national representatives.
We desire to lay before you this violation of the great fundamental principle of our Government for your serious consideration, knowing that minorities can be moved by principles as majorities are only by votes.
But we must not forget meanwhile, that the minorities of Britain are not altogether unrepresented.
Mill, Mr. Stapleton, and Mr. Hare have urged of late the right of minorities to be represented as well as majorities, and have offered plans for giving them a fair hearing.
This is a far better and more durable protection for minorities than any arrangement of numbers.
The importance of enterprise and pertinacity in the conduct of Parliamentary Opposition cannot be underrated when Ministers have to be harassed and minorities inflamed.
Since I am speaking on behalf of Professor Murray, I ought to remind you of the provisions of the Covenant for the protection of racial linguistic minorities, and minorities in different countries.
Dictatorship by small minorities is not a new political phenomenon.
During the interwar years, the new country's leaders were frequently preoccupied with meeting the demands of other ethnic minoritieswithin the republic, most notably the Sudeten Germans and the Ruthenians (Ukrainians).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minorities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
