Sentences with phrase «relatively small minority»

The majority of participants reported that government supported or subsidized mediation is available where they practice, with a relatively small minority indicating that only private mediators are available in their jurisdiction.

In many parts of the world today, the Church represents a relatively small minority, participating in the struggle for the future of man alongside of other religious and secular movements.

And since the Christians will form only a relatively small minority with no independent historical domain of existence of their own, they will all, though in varying degrees, live in the «diaspora of the Gentiles».

Relatively small minorities of U.S. elites saw China's alleged human rights problems, China - Taiwan tensions, or China's exchange rate policy as a very serious problem.

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To sum up, the six general elections considered here ended with minority governments, and those minorities all enjoyed a relatively small advantage in the number of seats — ranging from two to 22 — over the official Opposition.

The projects were also marked by rigid racial discrimination, with Boston's relatively small African - American population housed in separate and unequal projects in minority neighborhoods.

Despotic capitalism, on the other hand, is characterized by control of the government by an individual or a relatively small group such as military junta, an aristocracy or elite class, or a minority political party.

Muslims in this country are a small minority of no more than 2 percent, most of them relatively recent arrivals, and are associated with a religion in whose name, however illegitimately, war has beendeclared against America.

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

This system heavily biases the vote towards increasing the number of seats of the top two parties and reducing the seats of smaller parties, a principle known in political science as Duverger's law, and thus minority governments are relatively uncommon.

«This relatively small increase may have been the result of an increase in the percentage of faculty hires that involve underrepresented minority faculty and efforts to increase the pipeline of medical school faculty.»

In sum, the sources cited above suggest that significant levels of nonparticipation were restricted in 2015 to a minority of states and, except for New York, Colorado, and Rhode Island, to relatively small subsets of their eligible test - taking populations.

Da Lat is also relatively small, making it incredibly convenient to explore expansive lakes, minority villages and breathtaking waterfalls as well as interesting landmarks, including Emperor Bao Dai's Summer Palace and Da Lat's French Quarter on foot.

For example, when a minority house elected by a relatively tiny fraction (i.e. comprising an even smaller minority) of voters can implement legislative changes in part because the majority senses the weariness of voters regarding elections, I prefer that there remain an opportunity for earlier defeat.

The visible minority population was relatively small — four per cent of the total population — with black, Arab and Chinese people making up the three largest communities within this group.