a minority

Examples

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. Norman Mailer

Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks. Ernst Kaltenbrunner

The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority. Francis Crick

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. George Orwell

I would in fact tend to have more confidence in the outcome of a democratic decision if there was a minority that voted against it, than if it was unanimous... Social psychology has amply shown the strength of this bandwagon effect. Jürgen Habermas

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. Thomas Carlyle

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