Each union council comprised thirteen members elected from specified electorates: four men and two women elected directly by the general population ; two men and two women elected by peasants and workers ; one member for minority communities ; two members are elected jointly as the union mayor ( nazim ) and deputy union mayor ( naib nazim ).

As of 2010, the combined population of officially recognised minority groups comprised 8. 49 % of the population of mainland China.

The Convention comprised the majority of North Carolina-based Free Will Baptist churches, though a minority would split from the North Carolina state convention and maintain affiliation with the National Association.

Its discriminatory provisions, which reserved the office of Prime Minister and a built-in majority in the House of Representatives for indigenous Fijians ( although they were at that time a minority of the population ) proved very unpopular with the Indo-Fijian community, which comprised almost half the country's population, and in the mid 1990s the government agreed that it should be rewritten.

12 of the representatives for both indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians group represented " communal " constituencies, elected from closed electoral rolls, while the other 10 represented " national " constituencies, elected by universal suffrage ; the 8 minority seats comprised 3 communal and 5 national constituencies ).

The Zionist Organization was roughly composed of General Zionists, who were in the majority, followers of Jabotinsky, who came in a close second, and Labour Zionists, led by David Ben-Gurion, who comprised a minority yet had much influence where it mattered, in the Yishuv.

Although Rajputs ruled most of the states, they comprised a small minority of the population ; in the 1901 census, of a total population of 9, 723, 301, only 620, 229 were Rajputs, who were numerically strongest in the northern states and in Udaipur.

according to the 2006 Census Visible Minorities comprised 45. 4 % of the total population, the largest minority group being South Asian at 12. 0 %.

The union was intended to express the views of the Polish minority in Germany, This partly comprised the Polish-native population of the former East German provinces which remained with Germany under the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles ( Upper Silesia, East Brandenburg, Pomerania, Warmia or areas where Poles settled in Middle Ages ( East Prussia ) — mostly farmers and workers — and partly the Polish immigrants in Ruhr area ( see Ruhr Poles ).

This early statement of what would come to be known as " the rank-and-file strategy " remained a minority position within anarchism, but Malatesta ’ s ideas did have echoes in the anarchists Jean Grave and Vittorio Aurelio.

Some anarchists ( usually social anarchists ) have advocated forms of direct democracy as an alternative to the centralized state and capitalism ; however, others ( such as individualist anarchists ) have criticized direct democracy and democracy in general for ignoring the rights of the minority, and instead have advocated a form of consensus decision-making.

Conversely, Marxists believe that successful class repression almost always requires a superior capacity for violence, and that all societies prior to socialism are ruled by a minority class, so that in Marxist theory any non-socialist state will possess the properties attributed to all states by anarchists and others.

On the other hand, anarchists feel the re-creation of any sort of state will place power in the hand of a tiny minority, that States with their repressive capacities and massive bureaucracies tend to be self-perpetuating and do not " wither away ", and that in practice establishing a new state is thus counter-revolutionary because in order to eventually eliminate it a second revolution will be required.

That is, they explicitly reject imposing state property of the land, although voluntary collectivization is seen as more efficient and thus supported ( indeed, during the Spanish revolution anarchists impulsed hundreds of collectivizations but only a tiny minority had all the land in the area, small peasants were allowed to cultivate their own land without hired labour ).

Thus only a tiny minority of anarchists was present, and the General Council's resolutions passed almost unanimously.

And, like all anarchists, he opposed the governmental practice of democracy, as it allows a majority to decide for a minority.

A minority view in Christianity, known as Christian Torah-submission, holds that the Mosaic law as it is written is binding on all followers of God under the New Covenant, even for Gentiles, because it views God ’ s commands as " everlasting " (, ;, ; ) and " good " (; ; ).

Contemporary Jainism is a small but influential religious minority with as many as 6 million followers in India and growing immigrant communities in North America, Western Europe, the Far East, Australia and elsewhere.

Hughes and his followers formed a minority Government ( briefly using the title " National Labor "), with support from Cook and his Commonwealth Liberal Party.

Subh-i-Azal responded by making his own claims, but his attempt to preserve the traditional Bábísm was largely unpopular, and his followers became the minority.

The Taliban repressed minority populations, particularly the Shia, as a retaliation in which approximately 2, 500 Taliban soldiers were massacred by Abdul Malik and his Shia followers ; attacked the Iranian embassy, killing eight diplomats and a television reporter, claiming them as spies.

Mollet and his followers were ejected in the minority of the party.

Notable examples of endogamous religious groups have been the Arab Christians in the Middle East, Assyrians, Jews, Yazidi Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan also the Mandaeans ( early Christians and followers of John the Baptist ) in Southern Iraq ( all under Islamic majority ), Turkmens and Armenians in Iran, Old Order Amish, Jehovah's Witnesses, Memons, Muslims, Knanaya Christians, Hindu Brahmins and the Parsi of India ( a non-Hindu minority in India ).

Sir Khawaja resisted such pressures ; but mass rioting broke out in the Punjab against both the government and followers of this religious minority.

Buddhism is probably the largest of all minority religions, with about 215, 000 followers.

Most inhabitants are Christians with a minority of followers of a native religion.

However, according to most halakhic decisors ( posqim ), it is preferable to read the haftarah out of a parchment scroll, and according to a small minority of posqim ( mainly the followers of the Vilna Gaon ), such a parchment scroll is an absolute requirement.

It is also believed by a minority of still some other followers that Santa Muerte is not a saint, since she has traits of jealousy and granting evil requests.

Subhh-i-Azal responded by making his own claims, but his attempt to preserve the traditional Bábísm was largely unpopular, and his followers became the minority.

In addition to Muslim, followers of the Baha ' i faith comprise the largest non-Muslim minority in Iran.

Many Shia Muslims, who make up the largest minority of Islamic followers — including the Ismailis and especially Dawoodi Bohra's — observe Laylat al-Qadr on the night of the 23rd, in keeping with traditions received through Ali and his wife Fatimah, Muhammad's daughter and Fatimid Imams.

Descendants of the sultan's Muslim followers still live in Dezhou today, and are classified as the Hui minority.

Hughes and his followers formed a minority Government.

Most of them are Shia Muslims by religion, although significant Sunni Muslims and a small minority of Buddhists and Bön followers reside in isolated areas.

Early followers of the Báb were known as Bábís, however in the 1860s a split occurred after which the vast majority of Bábís followed Mirza Husayn ` Ali, known as Bahá ' u ' lláh, and became known as Bahá ' ís, while the minority who followed Subh-i-Azal came to be called Azalis .< ref >" But the upshot of the whole matter is, that out of every hundred Bábís probably not more than three or four are Ezelís < nowiki ></ nowiki >, all the rest accepting Behá ' u ' lláh < nowiki ></ nowiki > as the final and most perfect manifestation of the Truth.

This idea was championed by the King, who had a minority of followers.

Most Indo-Caribbean Americans are followers of Hinduism, with a significant minority belonging to Islam and Presbyterianism.

and he was supposed to be living on the banks of River Godavari. However, a small minority of Sage Viswamitra are the followers of Aashvalaayana sutra i. e. the study of Rg Veda.

Collaborators were hatefully presented as a rare minority, as played by Pierre Brewer in Jéricho ( 1946 ) or Serge Reggiani in Les Portes de la nuit ( 1946 ), and movements such as the Milice were rarely evoked.

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.

They defeat Pierre Trudeau's Liberals and elect Joe Clark's PCs, but only with a minority

* October 30-Federal election: Pierre Trudeau's Liberals win a minority

“ An act of faith ” says the boss ; “ I am very confident ” answers Pierre Besnaïnou, the former founder of Liberty Surf and still a minority shareholder of Fauchon

7 .↑ Pierre Gauthier Vendean linguist ( from Saint-Vincent-sur-Jar ), professeur at the university of Nantes, ( in Langue et littérature: La langue régionale: Les parlers vendéens dans l ’ espace linguistique poitevin-saintongeais, in: Vendée, Encyclopédie Bonneton: written with Guy Perraudeau ), using the Vendean example, restates in 2003: « Let ’ s recall first that the Vendée, before being a department, was under the Ancien Régime ( pre-revolution monarchy ), what we called « Bas-Poitou » ( Lower Poitou ) and to understand what are the Vendean dialects, their origins, their life, their future, it ’ s necessary to situate them in a bigger linguistic, cultural and historic area, the one bordered by the Loire and the Gironde on one part, the Atlantic Ocean and the Massif Central on another part, where are still alive in rural areas local dialects with a sufficient coherence to constitute a minority language, the Poitevin-Saintongese one .”

The Liberals under Pierre Trudeau won a narrow minority government in this election, and governed for the next two years with unofficial parliamentary support from the NDP.

After several years as an MP, during Progressive Conservative and Liberal minority governments, Cashin suffered a major upset when he was one of the few incumbent Liberal MPs to lose his seat in the 1968 general election that returned a Liberal majority government led by Pierre Trudeau.