According to Scott Gordon, a political organization is constitutional to the extent that it " contain institutionalized mechanisms of power control for the protection of the interests and liberties of the citizenry, including those that may be in the minority.

For instance, basketball legend, Michael Jordan became an active entrepreneur involved with many sports related ventures including investing a minority stake in the Charlotte Bobcats, Paul Newman started his own salad dressing business after leaving behind a distinguished acting career, or rap musician, Birdman started his own record label, clothing line, and an oil business.

" Mickey " McBride and his son Edward, along with minority owners including McBride business associate Dan Sherby, Brown and four others.

Most of the rest are mestiços of mixed Portuguese and black descent, including Cape Verdean minority.

The country also has a Chinese minority, including Macanese people of mixed Portuguese and Chinese blood from Macau.

Two minority reports favoured change beyond the amalgamation of smaller urban districts, including both smaller borough councils and a Central Authority for strategic functions.

The only minority language with a significant number of speakers ( 5. 4 %) was Polish ( a figure that rises to over 6 % when including Kashubian, Masurian, and other forms classified by the Imperial government as separate languages but today more often considered variants of Polish ).

Although many regulations that discriminated against non-Christians — including Jews and other minority groups — had been eliminated during the unification of Germany in 1871, antisemitism continued to exist and thrive in Germany and other parts of Europe.

The main minority ethnic groups of the former Commonwealth, including Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Belarusians and Jews, were getting involved in their own national movements and plans, which met with disapproval on the part of those ethnically Polish independence activists, who counted on an eventual rebirth of the Commonwealth.

The Kuomintang considers all minorities to be members of the Chinese Nation, Chiang Kai-shek, the Kuomintang party leader, considered all the minority peoples of China, including the Hui, as descedants of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor and semi mythical founder of the Chinese nation.

The mountainous territory of Mount Lebanon has long been a shelter for minority and persecuted groups, including its historic Maronite Christian majority along with Druze, and local Shi ' a Muslims.

At the time, the Cambridge economics faculty was divided into a Keynesian majority ( including Joan Robinson and Richard Kahn ) and an anti-Keynesian minority ( headed by Dennis Robertson ).

After a near-death experience in 2000 resulting from complications from prostate cancer ( he was diagnosed with cancer in 1991 ), Farrakhan toned down his racial rhetoric and attempted to strengthen relations with other minority communities, including Native Americans, Hispanics, and Asians.

Besides Lafontaine, a number of other prominent SPD defectors won election to the Bundestag on the Left Party list, including a prominent leader of Germany's Turkish minority, Hakkı Keskin, German Federal Constitutional Court justice Wolfgang Neskovic, and the former SPD leader in Baden-Württemberg, Ulrich Maurer.

As Anglicanism represents a broad range of theological opinion, its presbyterate includes priests who consider themselves no different in any respect from those of the Roman Catholic Church, and a minority who prefer to use the title presbyter in order to distance themselves from the more sacrificial theological implications which they associate with the word “ priest .” While priest is the official title of a member of the presbyterate in every Anglican province worldwide, the ordination rite of certain provinces ( including the Church of England ) recognizes the breadth of opinion by adopting the title The Ordination of Priests ( also called Presbyters ).

* identity-based: including youth wings, women's wings, ethnic minority wings, LGBT wings, etc.

As the empire expanded, it took over administrative responsibility of all minority ethnic groups living in and around the empire, including early contacts with Russia — then seen as a tribute nation.

* Asians, mostly Chinese minority, including Macanese people of mixed Portuguese and Chinese blood from Macau.

The springbok was a national symbol of South Africa under white minority rule ( including a significant period prior to the establishment of apartheid ).

Most subject – verb – object languages place genitives after the noun, though there is a significant minority, including the postpositional SVO languages of West Africa, the Hmong – Mien languages, some Sino-Tibetan languages, and such European languages as Swedish, Danish, Lithuanian and Latvian, that have prenominal genitives ( as would be expected in a SOV language ).

During World War II Germany sought to suppress all elements of social and political life of the Polish minority in Germany by interning and murdering Polish activists and leaders, including the ones in Warmia.

Most Johannine scholars doubt the reliability of its ascription to Papias, but a minority, including B. W.

One of the more notable cultural acts of the independence period, unique in western Europe at the time of its passage in 1925, was a guarantee of cultural autonomy to minority groups comprising at least 3, 000 persons, including Jews ( see history of the Jews in Estonia ).

In addition, minority ethnic groups, including first or second-generation immigrants, have been found to be at greater risk for developing mental disorders, which has been attributed to various kinds of life insecurities and disadvantages, including racism.

A small minority believe that it is evidence for the existence of ancient Assyrian telescopes, which could explain the great accuracy of Assyrian astronomy.

Thus, small minority parties cannot easily enter the Bundestag and prevent the formation of stable majority governments as they could under the Weimar constitution.

Sky News objected to the breaking of its monopoly, complaining about the costs associated with running a channel that only a minority could view from the licence fee.

Another minority believed that Eddy intended various requirements for her consent ( in their view, " estoppels ") to effect the church's dissolution on her death, since they could no longer be followed literally.

Critics had cautioned that the policy change could lead to a drop in enrollment of minority students at CUNY's four-year institutions.

At the time, BT dictated what signalling could be used on its leased lines and, whilst it only had a minority interest in the sales of PBXs, was requested by the PBX manufacturers to produce a standard to prevent the creation of a plethora of conflicting PBX protocols being developed.

Dollfuss was concerned that with German National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Austrian National Socialists ( DNSAP ) could gain a significant minority in future elections ( according to fascism scholar Stanley G. Payne, should elections have been held in 1933, the DNSAP could have mustered about 25 % of the votes-contemporary TIME analysts suggests a higher support of 50 %, with a 75 % approval rate in the Tyrol region bordering Nazi Germany ).

They considered homosexuality curable through therapy, citing modern scientism and the study of sexology, which said that homosexuality could be felt by " normal " people and not just an abnormal minority.

A small minority of players ( such as Nick Reynolds of the Kingston Trio ) close tuned the instrument to D G B E to produce a deep instrument that could be played with the four-note chord shapes found on the top four strings of the guitar or ukulele.

Campaigning wrapped up March 7, 2008 for general elections that could see gains for Malaysia's opposition amid anger over race and religion among minority Chinese and Indians.

The Blumenthal responsum extrapolated from a minority authority that a minyan could be formed with nine men and one woman in an emergency.

The Bimetallic Committee carefully planned to take control of every aspect of the convention, eliminating any threat that the minority gold faction could take power.

For example if a child saw his / her mother expressing a discriminatory opinion about a minority group, then that child may think this behavior is acceptable and could continue to have this opinion about minority groups.

By refusing to vote on a motion, the minority could ensure that a quorum would not be achieved, and that the result would be invalid.

# 12th century: The Assassins extend their activities into Syria, where they could get much support from the local Shi ' i minority as the Seljuq sultanate had captured this territory.

At one point, the Alliance was at 30. 5 % in the polls, and some thought they could win the election, or at least knock the Liberals down to a minority government.

To protect minority rights against majority rule he called for a " concurrent majority " whereby the minority could sometimes block offensive proposals.

A minority of Christians do not regard the day they attend church as important, so long as they attend, as the apostles and disciples gathered on Sundays, on Saturdays, and whenever they could.

An alternate theory is that the Hutu and Tutsi originally belonged to the same Bantu population, but were artificially divided by German and then Belgian colonists so that the Tutsi minority could serve as local overseers for Berlin and Brussels.

Reverse redlining occurs when a lender or insurer targets minority consumers, not to deny them loans or insurance, but rather to charge them more than could be charged to a comparable majority consumer whose business is more sought after.

Trotsky argues that countries like Russia had no " enlightened, active " revolutionary bourgeoisie which could play the same role, and the working class constituted a very small minority.