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Definition of Minorities
1. minority [n] - See also: minority
Lexicographical Neighbors of Minorities
Literary usage of Minorities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Opportunity 2000: Creative Affirmative Action Strategies for a Changing (1988)
"Retaining and Promoting minorities and the Economically Disadvantaged Companies
... And in a tight labor market in which minorities and the economically ..."
2. The Law and Custom of the Constitution by William Reynell Anson (1892)
"Representation of minorities. There is a matter which cannot easily be ...
I refer to the attempts which have been minorities: made in various ways to ..."
3. Denying Human Rights and Ethnic Identity: The Greeks of Turkey by Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.), Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S., Whitman (1992)
"In a section entitled Human Dimension, the signatory countries declared: Determined
to foster the rich contribution of national minorities to the life of ..."
4. Rights Denied: The Roma of Hungary by Rachel Guglielmo, Human Rights Watch / Helsinki, Human Rights Watch Staff, Human rights watch-Helsinki, Human Rights Watch, Timothy Waters, Jeri Laber, Holly Cartner, Watch Human Rights (1996)
"The amended constitution recognizes, in Article 68, "the equality of all national
and ethnic minorities, and guarantees their use of national and ethnic ..."
5. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"... Treaties with the Smaller Allied Powers and the Protection of minorities.
Associated Powers and Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, the Serb-Croat-Slovene State, ..."
6. Civilization in the United States: An Inquiry by Thirty Americans by Harold E. Stearns (1922)
"If so, are the Indians, the Jews and the Asiatics to be classed with the Negroes,
as unassimilable minorities? How is the conduct of the American majority ..."
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