noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a minority community (=people whose race, religion etc is different from most of the other people in the country)
▪ There should be better provision for the needs of minority communities.
a minority government (=that does not have enough politicians to control parliament)
▪ His party had gained only enough seats to form a minority government.
a minority group (=one whose members belong to a different race, religion etc from most other people in a country)
▪ Conditions for many minority groups have worsened.
a minority sport (=one that very few people do)
▪ Minority sports rarely feature on TV.
an ethnic minority (=a small ethnic group living within a much larger group)
▪ Ethnic minorities have tended to live together in the same areas of the city.
ethnic minority
▪ racial discrimination against doctors from ethnic minorities
minority government
minority leader
sizeable proportion/portion/minority (of sth)
▪ Part-time students make up a sizeable proportion of the college population.
tiny minority
▪ Bad teachers are a tiny minority.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ Project to meet the needs of black and minority ethnic groups were well represented, says the report.
▪ Jesse Jackson descended upon Hollywood to protest the almost total absence of black and minority nominees.
▪ A recent workshop explored black and minority ethnic groups' involvement with the charity.
▪ This leaves one important question: How does the Republican nominee get more of the black and minority vote?
▪ But black and ethnic minority subjects still have low priority in psychology.
▪ Authorities have had varying degrees of success consulting with black and minority ethnic groups over care plans.
▪ There are few black or ethnic minority women or men working in western psychology.
▪ In this section I shall use the term black or ethnic minority to refer to all non-white groups.
ethnic
▪ Logically such constructions should make ethnic minorities feel even more powerless than they actually are.
▪ They are democracies, have market economies and are making good-faith efforts to deal with ethnic minorities.
▪ The position of ethnic minorities with regard to the use of education services is predictable.
▪ Now, more than ever, the president will be a hostage to his own ethnic minority, the Zaghawa.
▪ Nevertheless, our results are important and suggest that discrimination does take place against ethnic minorities, apparently at shortlisting.
▪ These experiments show that at least one-third of landlords discriminate against ethnic minorities on grounds of skin colour.
▪ Mounting social tension was accompanied by the swift development of national consciousness among the Empire's ethnic minorities.
large
▪ Political consent can not be obtained in a community where a large minority deny the legitimacy of the state.
▪ However, the large nationality minorities in most of them have produced extensive nation-based struggles.
▪ They work in many clinics, health centres and surgeries where there are large ethnic minority communities.
▪ It also defies basic standards of fairness by discriminating against large numbers of minority students.
▪ Even before 1905 a large minority and probably even a majority of their members were drawn from the lower classes.
▪ A large minority favors formal separation.
▪ This same question, however, remains vexatious today for the many school districts with large minority populations.
▪ A large minority of bishops at a 1980 synod on the family, meanwhile, asked that the encyclical be reconsidered.
national
▪ Another vital area in terms of sensitive political control were the national minorities.
▪ The participating States welcome the international efforts to improve protection of the rights of persons belonging to national minorities.
▪ Minority rights National and ethnic minorities continued to assert their interests.
▪ The Centre maintains a documentary resources centre and has recently set up a national ethnic minority statistical database.
▪ The position of national minorities was also discussed.
▪ There were strong pressures from still further national minorities for a greater degree of control over their own affairs.
▪ New bodies emerged to represent and press the claims of the more assertive national minorities.
▪ In some countries, national and racial minorities meant that total population figures do not tell the whole story about military strength.
other
▪ But there is no specific protection for religious, children's, documentaries, science or other minority programmes.
▪ Blacks and certain other ethnic minority groups form the base of the stratification system.
▪ Citizenship needs to be developed by extending rights to women, blacks, and other minorities.
▪ Like many other minority organisations, we can refute their legitimacy in adopting this guise.
▪ An unholy alliance with other minorities to preserve ideological positions otherwise unacceptable to the electorate does not appeal as a noble enterprise.
racial
▪ A high-octane mix of racial minorities, a flair for riots and looting.
▪ And that is how racial minorities can actually benefit the most in politics.
▪ In some countries, national and racial minorities meant that total population figures do not tell the whole story about military strength.
▪ I think gay people have become a target group for people who no longer target racial minorities.
▪ Mead also said Heller, Ehrman encouraged him to promote the firm as a progressive company for racial minorities and gays.
▪ Diabetes affects older people and racial minorities disproportionately.
▪ Added to the general problem of urban unemployment was the high concentration of impoverished racial minorities and immigrants in inner-city neighborhoods.
religious
▪ After their sometimes brutal treatment of ethnic and religious minorities, the security forces may gain a freer rein.
▪ Harrassment of ethnic or religious minorities would result in various international sanctions.
▪ In addition, winners of 10 seats reserved for religious minorities have traditionally backed the largest party.
▪ Are, for example, all political, religious and minority groups equally acceptable?
▪ Yet letting it become law would represent a historic step backwards in a generations-long process of protecting religious minorities.
▪ The sympathetic and informed study of ethnic and religious minorities is crucial for the well-being of our multi-racial society.
significant
▪ Disability and age While the vast majority of older people are able to live independently, significant minorities experience considerable difficulties.
▪ Even if you had different views, you felt you should not impose those views on a significant minority.
▪ However, there are a significant minority of male carers who must not be excluded.
▪ However, there was a significant minority of floating voters: on average about 20 percent of the electorate.
▪ A significant minority - 21 percent - think it is not very important for staff to receive their own personal copy.
▪ Increasing Skills Schools fail a significant minority of children.
▪ For a significant minority, Marxism remained a callous and abstract scheme.
sizeable
▪ It was noted that a sizeable minority of the Shop still wanted to fight for differentials.
▪ A sizeable minority said hardship was forcing them to give up education.
▪ Foreigners were small in number and for the most part temporary residents, but there were two sizeable minority groups in the country.
small
▪ Unfortunately, a small minority disagreed.
▪ However, there may be a small minority of residents who refuse to be kept clean.
▪ The main grounds appeared to be the danger which it might pose to the small Southern protestant minority by encouraging mixed marriages.
▪ Any doctrine of collegiality at all was bitterly resisted by a small minority.
▪ Small wonder that, by the time of the Boer War, the pacifists felt like a small and beleaguered minority.
▪ We are concerned about the small but persistent minority, particularly of young people, who re-offend while already on bail.
▪ Chapter 5 clearly demonstrates that demand for sport is heterogeneous, with many sports involving only a small minority of the population.
substantial
▪ A substantial minority, however, do not.
▪ While some thought that they did a good job, a substantial minority felt that they were a waste of time.
▪ Such a majority is likely, under the simple primary voting system, even on a substantial minority of primary votes.
▪ A substantial minority of shareholders is known to be opposed to a sale, feeling the company is worth at least £200 million.
▪ A substantial minority of Britain's population aged 65 + has never married.
▪ On the other hand, a substantial minority considered that infrastructural investment was a significant factor for location within an enterprise zone.
▪ In Chapter 8, issues arising from the presence in this country of substantial ethnic minorities will be discussed.
▪ A SUBSTANTIAL silent minority still holds the key to who wins the marginal seat of Darlington, according to a new poll.
tiny
▪ Two immediate sets of questions present themselves about this tiny, unhappy minority of women who are imprisoned.
▪ And how hard it is to train even this tiny minority!
▪ The $ 100, 000-plus cost of a Harvard or Yale undergraduate degree affects only a tiny minority.
▪ But it is only a tiny minority that is likely to move.
▪ For the sake of a tiny minority of possible abusers, the cyclist is being unreasonably inconvenienced.
▪ But, surprisingly, when individuals were asked whether they felt this about themselves only tiny minorities admitted to such a feeling.
▪ He was told only a tiny minority of extremists would object.
▪ In a tiny minority of cases mistakes have been made.
white
▪ It was necessary to acknowledge that the white minority had real fears about what would happen to them.
▪ Both Muzorewa and the white minority had to undergo severe pressure.
▪ The desire to recover it drove many black peasants to support the nationalist guerrillas in the war against white minority rule.
▪ At independence in 1980, the country was suffering from the limited coverage of the education system under the white minority regime.
▪ The white minority political domination has gone.
▪ The Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi is black but tolerant of the white minority.
▪ But, you know, the logic of the Alliance was first and foremost the struggle against white minority rule-apartheid.
■ NOUN
community
▪ Individual citizens and minority communities themselves need protection against the power of the state and against discrimination and unfair treatment.
▪ The minority community is by no means united behind census changes.
▪ Such support is particularly critical to the minority communities.
government
▪ In spite of only a short period of minority government the Labour Party in the 1920s had also developed some ambitious long-term policies.
▪ The following day Labor formed a minority government under Michael Field.
▪ Following the inconclusive election in February 1974, Harold Wilson formed a minority government dependent on Liberal support.
▪ After the election the Yukon Party began negotiations with a view to forming a minority government in the territory.
▪ Such a result would almost certainly put Mr Kinnock in Downing Street at the head of a minority government.
group
▪ It will Bteach real estate agents about the customs of minority groups.
▪ Then pick another minority group and do the same exercise again.
▪ Conditions for many minority groups have worsened.
▪ The proprietors have no desire to discriminate against any-one and in fact have several members of minority groups on their payroll.
▪ A family systems approach to work with minority groups must take account of all these factors.
▪ The factors have placed you in a minority group from which you can not possibly escape.
▪ Hacker believes that the position of women in society is analogous to that of minority groups such as immigrants and Blacks.
▪ This is particularly true when companies recruit young women and members of minority groups into nontraditional fields.
interest
▪ In all other cases they should be reported as minority interests. 44.
▪ If the subsidiary is less than 100 percent owned, a minority interest is shown.
▪ It is her treatment of the topic, she contends, that is bound to make her a minority interest.
▪ The minority interest represents subsidiary ownership held by stockholders other than the parent.
▪ The minority interest charge in the consolidated profit and loss account was £184,000.
▪ Time retains a minority interest in Omnimedia and will continue to distribute the magazine, which it had published since 1991.
▪ The consolidated balance sheet showed minority interests of £762,000 as at 30 November 1991 and £1,328,500 as at 30 November 1992.
▪ The project was to be administered by a joint private- and public-sector company in which the government had a minority interest.
language
▪ Publicity material will be made available in minority languages, in Braille and on tape.
▪ The Helpline will also give you details of the telephone advice services available in various ethnic minority languages.
▪ In Britain today there are over one hundred minority languages in everyday use.
leader
▪ Without the agreement of minority leaders, any new constitution will not be democratic.
▪ Many minority leaders as well as public officials in Phoenix give neighborhood development in minority neighborhoods priority over neighborhood integration.
party
▪ There are also 1,000-plus potential votes up for grabs due to the absence of the minority parties who fought the byelection.
▪ For eight years, he toiled in the House minority party.
▪ The presence of minority parties would also engender a diversity of opinions and ethnic backgrounds.
▪ At any rate, with spending caps plus the elimination of big donations, the minority parties had more of a chance.
▪ The administration's minority party has put off a decision whether to withdraw support for Prime Minister Albert Reynolds.
population
▪ The minority population is concentrated in a few regions or states.
▪ Of the ethnic minority population, 10.8 percent had been the victims of assault as opposed to 5.5 percent of whites.
▪ This same question, however, remains vexatious today for the many school districts with large minority populations.
▪ Nevertheless, this can be a difficult environment for black players, because the minority population is quite small.
report
▪ The conference adopted the minority report and family allowances were not discussed formally at an annual conference again until 1941.
▪ That approach was endorsed in a minority report but defeated by the General Assembly, 323 to 226.
▪ An influential minority report by Derek Senior advocated a map involving solely two-tier regional authorities, 35 in number.
▪ There was both a majority and a minority report, and the latter provided a well argued critique of the system.
▪ A minority report signed by several distinguished social scientists argued that there was.
▪ The minority report recommended that the social services should be developed first and accorded less priority to family allowances.
shareholder
▪ The provision would be reversed when profits attributable to the minority shareholders started to make good the losses that were made earlier.
▪ Among the most debated changes is one that would affect minority shareholder rights when a company is acquired.
▪ Disapplication requires a special resolution, ie a 75% majority, which the minority shareholder referred to could not block.
▪ A part disposal is occurring here - the effect is to increase the stake of the minority shareholders from 20% to 45%.
▪ A purchaser of shares may need to resort to petitioning the court to buy out minority shareholders.
▪ The matter was thrown into further confusion, however, when leave to appeal was granted to the minority shareholders.
▪ He claimed that Electronics' actions in withholding money due to Magnetics were prejudicial to the minority shareholders.
▪ As part of the rescue operation it left control of the banks with the minority shareholders.
stake
▪ It is unlikely, however, that any Western company will get more than a minority stake in Pilsner Urquell.
▪ Jaguar plunged 46p to 685p as General Motors confirmed it is in talks that could result in it taking a minority stake.
▪ The disposal of a minority stake would raise about £17 million.
▪ A strategic alliance may take the form of an outright acquisition, minority stake, joint venture or brand franchise.
▪ Assuming that shares are purchased, whether to acquire full control, majority holding or a minority stake?
student
▪ A drive to attract more ethnic minority students to Longlands College, Middlesbrough, is showing good results.
▪ Among minority students the figures were, predictably, much lower.
▪ Most central city schools serve primarily poor, working class and minority students.
▪ He saw it in the low number of minority students enrolled in honors classes.
▪ Too often minority students themselves are blamed for their failure.
▪ S.-born and minority students to consider careers in science and technology.
▪ Maybe a minority student has not had the same opportunities.
▪ Gross desperately pointed to the work of a lifetime to show that he was scarcely unsympathetic to the plight of minority students.
■ VERB
form
▪ The subject class is made up of the majority of the population whereas the ruling or dominant class forms a minority.
▪ After the election the Yukon Party began negotiations with a view to forming a minority government in the territory.
▪ Following the inconclusive election in February 1974, Harold Wilson formed a minority government dependent on Liberal support.
represent
▪ Former finance minister Boris Fyodorov, who represents minority investors, was reelected to the board.
▪ Parties representing ethnic minorities sat in parliament.
▪ Yet they represent the biggest minority group in Hong Kong.
▪ So the gunmen operating in the hills above Tetovo represent a minority.
▪ However, the very elderly still only represent a minority, approximately 1 percent of the total population.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ minority-owned businesses
▪ Both republics have sizable Serbian minorities.
▪ The law prevents job discrimination against minorities and women.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Assumptions are made that a minority person should be able to speak for all minority peo-ple.
▪ Pupils from ethnic minorities account for only 4 percent of the school roll.
▪ Sims said President Clinton remained committed to minority business, especially the 8a program.
▪ The second way of life is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority.
▪ This was a predominantly Protestant force which soon came to be regarded as repressive and bigoted by the Catholic minority.
▪ Unfortunately, a small minority disagreed.
▪ Unless the growing spirit of the movement could be harnessed coherently, mob rule would replace Unionist minority rule.