The republic is a very old form of government, but in the republics of Greece, Rome and Venice the powers of government were exercised by a class composed of a small minority of the people.
In all states where Direct Legislation is applied, it is said, so few persons actually vote that legislation is really determined by a small minority of the voters.
This custom of declaring successful the candidate receiving a plurality constitutes a defect in our representative system, since a plurality candidate may represent only a small minority of those actually voting.
Immigration is a pressing social problem, and it is likely that it will be even more pressing in the future.
Interview the officials of a trade union on the effect of Unrestricted immigration upon wages.
We are challenged to move, to do something, to present a reform program which will justify the rejection of socialism.
Classify the immigrant groups of your community on the basis of occupation.
Healy have always acted independently; and Mr. John Redmond was, at the time referred to, leader of only a small minority of the Irish Nationalists.
Yet this Parliament, representing only a small minorityof the inhabitants of Ireland, found its position of subordination intolerable.
France is, to my knowledge, the only country where a small minority group of Protestants publicly protested against the persecutions.
However, these liberals are only a small minority, hated by their upper-class fellows as time-servers and renegades, and sundered by an immense gulf from the ignorant masses.
The extremists were, after all, a small minority, and cool heads, both British and Indian, were seeking a way out of the impasse.
Against the King were arrayed the nobility, the church as represented by its official hierarchy, and the freemen of the realm, all together constituting but a small minority of the English people.
That such a small minority of the people should have the power under our constitutional arrangements to prevent reform, can hardly be reconciled with the general belief that in this country the majority rules.
There was, however, a small minority in the House that opposed the policy of prosecuting the representatives of the press.
Of course, that school never represented more than a small minority of thought and numbers.
Most happily, such a disordered opinion is shared only by a small minority.
If he were, as a small minority even of the rich already were, in sympathy with it though not of it, it would still have concerned him.
The new official Roman religion--certainly at the moment of the breakdown the religion of a small minority--almost or wholly disappeared in the Eastern pirate settlements.
The members of his Church, even in the districts where they were most numerous, were a small minority of the people.
The Established Church of Scotland was the Church of a small minority.
On that theory the States could confine the right of suffrage to a small minority, and make the State governments aristocratic, overthrowing their republican form.
We do not hold, and can not admit, that a small minority of the sex, however earnest and able, have any such right.
They are a small minority, with nothing to lose, and utterly unscrupulous, while all who will work with Sam Wood will work with anybody.
At first a small minority, usually regarded as fanatics, attack the interests in question.
Men forming a crowd cannot do without a master, whence it results that the votes of an assembly only represent, as a rule, the opinions of a small minority.
While for the vast majority of children in London and many other places attendance is compulsory up to the age of fourteen, exemption is possible at the age of twelve and thirteen for a small minority.
Philanthropic enterprise, whether represented by the religious bodies or lads' clubs, laments the lack of control over the boys, and frankly confesses its inability to deal satisfactorily with more than a small minority.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small minority" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
