How to Use minority in a Sentence

minority

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  • The proposal is opposed by a minority of voters.
  • The Republicans are now the minority in the Senate.
  • The group is becoming an influential minority in the community.
  • With the upgrade, Shaw moved into the bullish minority on Wall Street.
    — Alex Harring,fred Imbert, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The non-profit will still own a minority stake in the new for-profit version of the company.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
  • At least 15% of the development costs must go to firms owned by women or minorities.
    — Wire Services, Dallas News, 17 May 2023
  • The suit also says that as a white student, Newman belonged to the racial minority at Howard.
    — Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • To satisfy the law, both seats need to be filled by women, one of them needs to be a minority and one needs to be a Republican.
    — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 25 May 2023
  • Ship immigrants back to their countries and go back to slavery times for minorities.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 June 2024
  • Plotkin has been a minority stakeholder in the Hornets since 2019.
    — Steve Reed and Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2023
  • For a small minority, their truth is always going to be born of spite and privilege.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Now, Dundee is increasing its share to 74.2% and UMG will hold the remaining minority share.
    — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The share of voters who believe the nation is on the right track remains a dismal and diminutive minority at 24 percent.
    — Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Taft spoke for the majority, Holmes and Brandeis for the minority.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Not one minority on the district or circuit court sitting on the bench in Mobile County.
    — al, 8 Feb. 2023
  • As part of the transaction, Disney is selling its minority stake in Boom!
    — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2024
  • To meet state law, Beshear needed to fill both seats with women, one of whom needed to be a racial minority and one of whom needed to be a Republican.
    — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2023
  • Healthy kids are at very low risk from covid, and online won't work especially for the lower income and minority kids.
    — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Critics have argued that minority groups are more likely to be sentenced—and given longer prison terms—for their crimes.
    — Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 19 Apr. 2023
  • But critics argue the tests could worsen inequalities and hurt the chances for many minorities, who tend to score lower, to gain access to better schools.
    — Brammhi Balarajan, CNN, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Eight are in the 23-member majority, nine are in the 16-member minority.
    — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Feb. 2023
  • That led schools to place quotas on female enrollment, to insure that women would remain a minority of the class.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Brinker sold its minority share to a Houston company in 2013.
    — Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Women still make up a minority of students at business schools, per a report out Thursday.
    — Emily Peck, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
  • He is rightly exercised about the treatment of the Muslim Uyghur minority in China.
    — Peter Bergen, CNN, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Tyson is not only taking a minority stake in the company, but is working alongside it to build a US factory.
    — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Haley was the youngest and first minority female governor in the country when she was elected in South Carolina in 2010.
    — Lindsey Rupp Bloomberg News (tns), al, 17 Feb. 2023
  • This will place the freshman official squarely in the council minority on the very issue with which his voters elected him to contend.
    — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Fascist leaders often target minority groups and blame them for the country's ills, the War Department cautioned.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Last year's management buyout was arranged by B. Riley Financial, which took a minority stake in the brand holding company.
    — Richard Collings, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024

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