There is a minority of scholars who argue that Baltic forms a separate branch of Indo-European, or that it is not a genetic node in either Indo-European family or Balto-Slavic, but that Eastern and Western Baltic are separate branches of Balto-Slavic.

While these characteristics fit a Monophysite framework, a slight majority of scholars consider that Ignatius was waging a polemic on two distinct fronts, one Jewish, the other docetic, while a distinct minority holds that he is concerned with a group that commingled Judaism and docetism.

In Mauritania, where almost all the girls in minority communities undergo FGM, 34 Islamic scholars signed a fatwa in January 2010 banning the practice.

View of an Aramaic original New Testament is held by a minority of scholars.

Throughout the 20th century a minority of prominent scholars, such as John A. T. Robinson, have argued that John is as historically reliable as the synoptics.

A minority among the Sunni scholars sometimes refer to this duty as the sixth pillar of Islam, though it occupies no such official status.

Although most scholars seem to accept that brainwashing exists, a minority of sociologists who commonly refer to themselves as ' sociologists of religion ' assert that the anti-cult movement uses brainwashing to its own financial gain.

A minority of scholars prefers the Anatolian hypothesis, suggesting origin in Anatolia during the Neolithic.

These people are now known to have spoken Bactrian, an Eastern Iranian language, and Müller's identification is now a minority position among scholars.

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

Proponents of this view claim that the character of Polonius in Hamlet is a parody of Cecil, an interpretation which a minority of mainstream scholars have agreed with.

AAH is popular among laypeople and has continued support by a minority of scholars.

Though a minority of scholars follow the Augustinian hypothesis, most scholars ( including Christians and non-Christians ) date the composition of the Christian gospels to between 70 and 100 CE, a time after Christianity had separated from Judaism ( and after Pharisaism emerged as the dominant form of Judaism ).

A minority of scholars accept Markan priority but reject Q ; the Farrer hypothesis, whose chief proponents are Michael Goulder and Mark Goodacre, is the best-known theory that does this.

Matriarchy has even been found where a quarter of Black families in the United States were headed by single women ; thus, families composing a substantial minority of a substantial minority could be enough for the latter to constitute a matriarchy within a larger non-matriarchal society ( though many scholars would prefer the term " matrifocal " to " matriarchal ").

Some scholars have gone so far as to suggest that Cerdic is purely a legendary figure, and had no actual existence, but this is a minority view.

According to author Rand Dyck, some scholars believe section 23, with its minority language education rights, " was the only part of the Charter with which Pierre Trudeau was truly concerned.

Today, only a minority of scholars continue to work within this framework, mainly for reasons of religious conviction.

Aside from a very small minority of scholars ( most vehemently defending Lepidus in Rom.

These people are now known to have spoken Bactrian, an Eastern Iranian language that is quite distinct from the Tocharian languages, and Müller's identification is now a minority position among scholars.

Since the view that Jesus never existed is a minority view even among non-Christian and atheist biblical scholars, Doherty's work and thesis received harsh criticism.

A significant minority of textual scholars, however, maintain the priority of the Byzantine text-type ; and consequently prefer the " Majority Text ".

Because they are `` minority '' exercises and have but a limited appeal they soon find themselves in the limbo of the forgotten.

As we have seen, a growing proportion, although in 1914 still a minority, were members of churches.

Some researchers have speculated that this minority of Haplogroup C3 carriers among the Ainu may reflect a certain degree of unidirectional genetic influence from the Nivkhs, a traditionally nomadic people of northern Sakhalin and the adjacent mainland, with whom the Ainu have long-standing cultural interactions.

The breadth of slave ownership also meant that the leisure of the rich ( the small minority who were actually free of the need to work ) rested less than it would have on the exploitation of their less well-off fellow citizens.

A minority of proponents of a natural explanation have attributed Bigfoot to animals that are not apes such as the giant ground sloth.

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.

There have been female and racial minority staff officers as official Blue Angel members, in support of the Blue Angels recruiting for the Navy and Marine Corps.

A sizable minority ( traditionally known as " strong verbs ") have five separate forms, e. g., " begin ", " begins ", " beginning ", " began ", " begun ".

Theodora, widow of the Emperor Theophilus ( died 842 ), acted as regent during the minority of her son Michael III, who was said to have been introduced to dissolute habits by her brother Bardas.

While all of the 98 naturally occurring elements have been identified in mineral samples from the Earth's crust, only a small minority of elements are found as recognizable, relative pure minerals.

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.

A German ethnic minority have settled in the mountains between Vicenza, Verona and Trento in Italy ( also known as Seven Communities ) is also called the Cimbri (: it: Cimbri ( minoranza linguistica )).

The Mi ' kmaq Nation is also assumed to have crossed the present-day Cabot Strait at around this time to settle on the south coast of Newfoundland but were in a minority position compared to the Beothuk Nation.

Since the reunions in the UK and Australia in 1957, two generations of Christadelphians have grown up with little awareness of the existence of the minority " fellowships ", or awareness that the main group is called " Central " by the minority groups.

Schottky diodes are majority carrier devices and so do not suffer from minority carrier storage problems that slow down many other diodes — so they have a faster reverse recovery than p – n junction diodes.

Questions of suffrage, especially suffrage for minority groups, have dominated the history of elections.

A nation-state for the ethnic group derives political legitimacy from its status as homeland of that ethnic group, from its protective function against colonization, persecution or racism, and from its claim to facilitate the shared cultural and social life, which may not have been possible under the ethnic group's previous status as an ethnic minority.

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 ).

* Modernist evangelicals are a small minority in the movement, have low levels of church attendance, and " have much more diversity in their beliefs ".

They have been living north of the Arctic Circle for more than 7, 000 years now, but today are a 5 % minority in their native Lapland Province.