Sentences with phrase «independence was in the minority»

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Two such schools of thought have been North American process theology based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and liberation theology which originated in the struggles of Third World peoples for economic, political, and social independence but now has broadened to include the aspiration of minority groups (e.g., women and blacks) even within affluent First World countries.

Those in favour of independence had been in the minority throughout the 20th century.

When they declared their independence from a Democratic caucus that was already dispirited and in the minority, the Senate barely blinked.

As far as it is concerned, territorial federalism can certainly ease tensions and calm down temporary crises through concessions from the majority nation to the minority nations (oftentimes temporary), but the logic inherent to the system will sooner or later lead the minority nations (which can not cease to be in a minority under territorial federalism) to ask for full national recognition, either by claiming multinational federalism or by seeking independence.

As a young man, Jiménez found kindred spirits in like - minded men and women who were committed to the causes of liberation and independence for Puerto Rico — and sought freedom from what they perceived to be the racist and discriminatory treatment minority residents faced in major urban centers such as Chicago and New York.

While seeking independence, Southern Rhodesia's white minority was strongly opposed to black participation in government.

The minority Sikh community — one which had played a disproportionately large role in both the subcontinent's independence struggle and the Indian Army before and after»47 — was set upon in a manner that left one former MP, the Sikh historian Khushwant Singh, to state that «for the first time I understood what words like pogrom, holocaust and genocide really meant».

Staying out late in adolescence is an accepted sign of growing independence, but this study finds that there is a small minority of 15 year olds — seven per cent of boys and five per cent of girls - who regularly stay out late without their parents knowing where they are.

The same position that only two years ago County Legislator and Minority Leader Frank Sparaco referred to in a series of Rockland County Times articles as being a no - show job paid off as political patronage to former Chair of the Independence Party Marsha Coopersmith, is now going to the law firm of Sparaco's close friend and lawyer Jay Savino, albeit at about half the price and on an annual per diem basis.

Open Letter To: New York State Majority Leader John Flanagan New York State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal.

There is no denying the fact that even after almost seven years of independence, political and acute economic exigencies have forced several minority groups from Western Balkan states especially Kosovo to seek refuge in Europe.

We are the proud minority that operates with independence in the most transparent residential mortgage channel today.