At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration, which was a positive thing, and they had some issues that they wanted to press, but 9/11 really gave them direction. It gave them a purpose.
The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game.
The University has a moral obligation to provide equal opportunities to women, minority persons and all other groups who work or seek to work at Harvard.
Back when I was looking for my next step and was researching Gannett, I was interested in who was leading the various businesses within the organization: Are there a lot of women and minorities in important, operational roles, senior management and t...
Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends.
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
Regret is more than inevitable, it's a constant companion. A relationship that becomes comfortable. Regret never wants to break up.
The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true.
I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..
There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.
