it has sought new sympathy for the human aspirations of racial minority groups in this country.

But as yet, no real estate board has been willing officially to support such laws or to admit the permissibility of introducing minority buyers into all-white neighborhoods.

So Armenia has to maintain good relations at least with Iran and Georgia though international pressure against trade with Iran and while separatist tends of Armenian minority in Javakheti.

Usually, a meeting which is held without notice having been given is still valid if all of the directors attend, but it has been held that a failure to give notice may negate resolutions passed at a meeting, because the persuasive oratory of a minority of directors might have persuaded the majority to change their minds and vote otherwise.

Because it was a minority church of widely differing traditions in a non-Christian culture ( except in Kerala, where Christianity has a long history ), practice varied wildly.

Buddhists are a tiny minority ( 105 in 2001, according to Statistics Canada ), although Gampo Abbey in Pleasant Bay has been operational since 1984.

At one point, almost every major city in the US had a velodrome or two for track racing events, however since the middle of the 20th century cycling has become a minority sport in the US whilst in Continental Europe it continues to be a major sport, particularly in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy and Spain.

Ireland has had consecutive coalition governments since the 1989 general election, excluding two brief Fianna Fáil minority administrations in 1994 and 2011 that followed the withdrawal of their coalition partners from government.

Apart from this, when no party has had a majority, minority governments normally have been formed with one or more opposition parties agreeing to vote for the legislation governments need to function, as the Labour government of James Callaghan formed a coalition with the Liberals in 1977 when it lost its narrow majority gained at the October 1974 election.

There has also been discussion about the significance of the selection of the Ethiopian eunuch as being the first gentile conversion: inclusion of a eunuch, representing sexual minority in the context of the time.

A third significant change, outside North America, has been the shrinking of the minority " fellowships " due to defection to the main group and natural causes.

It has two main groups: " straights ", now the minority, emphasize vitalism, innate intelligence and spinal adjustments, and consider vertebral subluxations to be the cause of all disease ; " mixers ", the majority, are more open to mainstream views and conventional medical techniques, such as exercise, massage, and ice therapy.

There are three minority languages in East Africa which use clicks: Sandawe and Hadza of Tanzania, as well as Dahalo, an endangered South Cushitic language of Kenya which has clicks in only a few dozen words.

On the other hand, the Republic of Ireland has not been able to sign the Charter on behalf of the Irish language ( although a minority language ) as it is defined as the first official language of the state.

( Although fee-paying schools are in the minority, there has been much criticism over the state aid they receive with opponents claiming this gives them an unfair advantage.

While the article specifically prohibits discrimination based on " sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status ", the last of these allows the court to extend to Article 14 protection to other grounds not specifically mentioned such as has been done regarding discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation.

Since 1990 there has been an emergence of a German minority group, Elbinger Minderheit.

The majority of citizens ( 56 %) believe that membership of the EU has benefited their country, though a significant minority ( 31 %) believe that their country has not benefited.

This embouchure method, advocated by a minority of brass pedagogues such as Jerome Callet, has not yet been sufficiently researched to support the claims that this system is the most effective approach for all brass performers.

Guatemala City also has a sizeable Indigenous population and minority groups such as Germans and other Europeans, Jewish, Asians primarily Chinese and Korean, and many groups of other Latin American origins such as Peruvian, and Colombian amongst others.

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

It has retained this status to the present day, with even the minority whose first language is Irish usually being fluent in English as well.

A convention of Irish Protestant Churches in Dublin in May 1922 signed a resolution placing " on record " that " hostility to Protestants by reason of their religion has been almost, if not wholly, unknown in the twenty-six counties in which Protestants are in the minority.

In India, where Muslims form a large minority, the largest Islamic seminary ( Darul Uloom Deoband ) has vehemently opposed recent government moves to abrogate and liberalize laws from the British Raj era that banned homosexuality.

Pius did not condemn the concept of trading in slaves, only the enslavement of the recently baptised, who represented a very small minority of those captured and taken to Portugal.

According to a poll taken by USA Today in 2005, majority of Americans support affirmative action for women, while with minority groups though, it is more split.

The post-1984 bailout standard requires that a covered jurisdiction demonstrate nondiscriminatory behavior during the 10 years prior to filing and while the action is pending and that it has taken affirmative steps to improve minority voting opportunities.

The plan also included steps to be taken prior to independence, including the issues of citizenship, transit, economic union between the two states, access to holy places and religious and minority rights.

Clark's reputation as a leader had taken a beating when, as Prime Minister, he carelessly lost a non-confidence motion over his minority government's budget in December 1979, leading to the fall of his government ; the PCs subsequently lost the federal election held two months later when Trudeau rescinded his announced retirement, and returned to lead the Liberals to a majority.

Desiring to take a break for a nap, Dawes consulted the majority and minority leaders, who assured him that no vote would be taken that afternoon.

It is an instance in which a statement which is neither part of the ruling of the Court, nor part of the opinion of a majority or dissenting minority of the Court has been taken as precedent for subsequent decisions of the Court.

Membership in the Danish minority has been fluid since 1945, as objective criteria like e. g. the language to distinguish a German Schleswigian from a Danish are not taken into account, since German law prohibits government registration of persons due to their ethnic origins.

Then early in Arnulf's minority Lothar had taken Ponthieu and given it to Hugh Capet, and the first counts of Guînes had established themselves.

As co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Rep. Grijalva has taken a leading role in shaping recent CPC " alternative budgets " -- budget bills offered by various groups and caucuses in Congress other than the official majority or minority party plan.

In areas where a majority had taken the oath, such as Paris, the refractory minority could be victimized by society at large: nuns from the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, for example, were subjected to humiliating public spankings.

The use of standardized testing also must be taken into account when assessing those who are of minority and lower socioeconomic status since they are so culturally loaded.

His reign is generally dated from 1506 to 1493 BC, but a minority of scholars, who feel that astrological observations used to calculate the timeline of ancient Egyptian records and thus the reign of Thutmose I, were taken from the city of Memphis rather than from Thebes, would date his reign from 1526 BC to 1513 BC.

Whenever a vote of more than a majority is required to take an action, control is taken from the majority and given to the minority.

The eight Independent AFIL Party MPs abstained from voting on the final passing of the Bill on 25 May in protest that it had not taken any account of Protestant minority concerns and fears, being in effect a " partition deal " after the government introduced an Amending Bill into the House of Lords to give effect to the exclusion of Ulster constructed on the basis of county option and six year exclusion, the same formula rejected by Unionists in March.

A decision taken by a majority against the will of a minority ( even if only a single sejmik ) was considered a violation of the principle of political equality.

Her mom died of leukaemia when she was young, and she has taken over the role of the lady of the house, spending all her spare time homemaking for her father and brother, working part-time at a kebab restaurant and participating in a minority performance art group.

In some countries, learners have lessons taken entirely in a foreign language: for example, more than half of European countries with a minority / regional language community use partial immersion to teach both the minority and the state language.

By 2005, over 120 countries had participated as regular host sites and the tests had been taken around 100 million times ( including by domestic ethnic minority candidates ).

While McDougall was certainly an unorthodox figure and always willing to take a minority view, there is no reason to suppose that in the light of modern psychological knowledge and political developments, he would have supported the position taken by these groups.

The minority Ismā ‘ īlīs, whose leader had taken control of the Salamiyyah centre, began to proclaim their teachings-that Imām Muḥammad had died, and that the new leader in Salamiyyah was in fact his descendant come out of hiding.

END ’ s insistence on criticising Soviet militarism made it highly controversial in CND, where communists and pro-Soviet Labour leftists were a vocal though small minority – but it meant that it was taken much more seriously by the Labour Party, which had adopted a non-nuclear defence policy in 1980.

A very small minority of contemporary Friends have taken up the traditional dress once again.