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As a procedural loophole it can function as an important minoritarian protection, as it did against the ideological extremism of the GOP over the last decade — but it can remain so only in a context in which it is not being used routinely.

Abolishing the Filibuster « Gerry Canavan 2009

Stephens: What would get him out is, look, he runs a minoritarian regime based on the Alawite clan.

High Tea 2011

Who cares if the walkout flies in the face of the usual progressive opposition to filibusters and other minoritarian obstruction?

Wiscontradictions 2011

It is also a minoritarian regime of Alawites ruling over a Sunni majority, which is another aspect of what's going on in Syria right now.

Is $61 Billion Enough? 2011

Majoritarian elitist and exclusionary, rather than inclusionary, minoritarian and proportionately decided democracy rules the day in first District politics.

Response to Inquires About Rob Andrews Run For The US Senate and its Effect on the Ibn-Ziyad Campaign For Congress 2008

There will be a huge implosion in the Democratic party, and several electoral cycles of chaos on their increasingly-minoritarian side of the aisle, but something will eventually arise from the ashes and will probably become the majority party again, for their own span.

Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies 2005

But even more, the DNC is actually the first example I can think of that illustrates a Contracts principle of an efficient minoritarian default rule.

The Volokh Conspiracy » TWO NEW FTC COMMISSIONERS AND THE NATIONAL DO-NOT-CALL REGISTRY: 2004

More than 100 government opponents are also behind bars, including dozens of members of the minoritarian Bubi ethnic group who accuse the government of ethnic repression.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

This includes everything from "art" photography to iPhone snapshots, from MRI scans to the infrared eyes of CIA Predator drones, and from surveillance cameras attached to facial-recognition software to minoritarian documentary practices from Rodney King to Abu Ghraib.

Irish Blogs Singularity 2010

Due to Mr Wickremesinghe's deracinated minoritarian profile (yuppie old boys, city-folk, ethnic lobbies, INGOs) and abandonment of the UNP's fusion of tough conservative patriotism with robust mass appeal, there has been a haemorrhage of Sinhala (not just Buddhist but increasingly, Catholic) nationalist voters from the UNP.

groundviews Dayan Jayatilleka 2010