Sentences with phrase «powerful minority»

At the moment the political machine just seems to flow with powerful minorities or public opinion (influenced often by the media).

If you want to stay relevant and reach hungry and increasingly powerful minority customer groups, the time to start serving them is now.

This wild confusion is present in the minds of a small but financially powerful minority, though a much larger part of the population has a tendency to hold rigid ideas about the kinds of economic institutions in other nations with which we should cooperate.

Sixty - three MSPs will also support a much more experienced and powerful minority administration than the 47 SNP representatives elected back in 2007, but a couple of aspects of the Nationalists» election campaign have created potential problems for the future.

It is strikes me as the height of arrogance to assume that while we fight for the interests of everyone, only a tiny but powerful minority stands opposed in the name of selfishness.

Currently, the larger ecosystem is mostly a powerless silent majority that is watching events unfold, while remaining hopeful that the vocal and more powerful minority is going to lead the market in the right direction.

However, nothing precludes that unelected bodies run amok or side with powerful minorities.

The progress of liberal Islamic ideas is impeded in East Pakistan today by the presence of a powerful minority of the Hindus, the existence of communist fifth columnists, and, above all, by the hold of the conservative ulama, who are wedded to medieval scholastic notions about Islam.

However, in the «light» that has been shed on American values by a very vocal and powerful minority, and the consequent rush of the masses to «step into the light», that can be the only natural consequence of recent events.

The goal of the event was to show to religious Americans that atheism was a powerful minority in American life.

KC: Right from the days of Plato's Republic politics has been controlled by a powerful minority.

If gays are considered to be a powerful minority, then Walker can accept a simple rational reason for the law.

While we have made tremendous progress as a charter school movement, there remains a small but powerful minority that opposes our progress, and they are doing all they can to knock us off stride.

There was a powerful minority view from Lord Nicholls and Baroness Hale that English law should be extended.