Crossword clues for minorities
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Minority \Mi*nor"i*ty\, n.; pl. Minorities. [Cf. F. minorit['e]. See Minor, a. & n.]
The state of being a minor, or under age.
State of being less or small. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Browne.The smaller number; -- opposed to majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.
Those members of a legislature that belong to the political party which is in the minority in that institution; as, the bill will pass even if the minority are strongly opposed.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of minority English)
Wikipedia
In Lebanese politics Minorities ( ’Aqaliyāt) is a term that includes six different Christian sects; Syriac Orthodox, Syriac Catholics, Latin Catholics, Assyrians, Chaldeans and Copts. 1 of the 128 seats in the national parliament is allocated to Minorities (all seats in the Lebanese parliament are allocated to different confessional groups). The Minorities' seat is elected from Beirut III electoral district, an electoral district with a large Sunni Muslim majority (65.25% of the registered voters).
According to data released by the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities in 2011 (not an official census as such), there were 42,715 registered Minorities voters (1.28% of all registered voters in the country). Electoral districts with significant Minorities populations were Beirut I 10,063 voters (11.0% of the registered voters in the electoral district, overwhelmingly Syriac Catholics), Beirut III 8,181 voters (3.18%), Metn 7,802 voters (4.56%), Zahle 7,225 voters (4.51%) and Beirut II 3,529 voters (3.44%). In the capital Beirut (all three districts combined) Minorities represented 4.83% of the registered voters.
Usage examples of "minorities".
Because the Crispus Society, the NAACP, the Urban League were still for going slowly, for the minorities bill, outspoken against the activist outfits like the Turnerites, we thought that was the heavy majority of Negro opinion.
I think you’ll see most of them are behind you when the minorities bill becomes operative.
This was the Minorities Rehabilitation Bill that the Senate and House had passed, and that was now in his hands awaiting his signature.
What will the seven billion dollars of taxpayers’ money do for minorities, not for the economy?
This bill may rehabilitate the minorities financially, but it won’t raise them up to full equality.
Doug, you’ve said it, there’s good in the minorities bill and there’s bad.
I don’t have to worry if I’ve done a disservice to minorities or expediently helped them endure the near future.
To date, his slowness in signing the Minorities Rehabilitation Program Bill was not unexpected, but part of his pattern.
No, it was not unexpected that Dilman, conscious that the minorities bill was T.
Dilman was doing their bidding, whatever his secret qualms, on the Minorities Rehabilitation Bill, but was reminding them that although he must do what he was being told to do, he still would not allow himself to be held in utter contempt.
Besides”—Talley smoothed the typescript almost lovingly where it lay on the table—“it was such a damn beautiful bit of rhetoric, would have kicked the whole minorities program off in high.
It is with pride in my fellow citizens, and with the greatest confidence in our future well-being and security, that I endorse the Minorities Rehabilitation Program approved by our Congress, and that I put my name to it before all of you.
Before rendering my decision, I felt it necessary to discuss briefly with you, the people, certain aspects of the bill, of this Minorities Rehabilitation Program.
We will have given our minorities not civil rights, not equality, but a giant payoff to end their clamor.
Addressing you then, not as one who is prejudiced by white or black demands, not as one heeding majority or minority wishes, but rather addressing you as one who has come to believe that any travail or sacrifice is worthwhile if it will strengthen the foundation of a stronger, totally democratic United States of America that can stand before the world unashamed, indeed, proud, for having practiced those noble ideas upon which it was founded, I hereby notify my former colleagues in Congress, and my fellow citizens everywhere, that I cannot and shall not sign the Minorities Rehabilitation Program into law.