A federal election is expected as early as next spring, when Mr Harper hopes to turn his minority into a majority.
联邦选举预计最早将在明年春天举行,哈珀希望到时自己能从少数派成为多数派。
But Mr Boehner and Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader in the Senate, have made it clear that they do not want the committee to pursue tax increases.
但博纳和共和党参议院少数派领导人米奇·麦克康奈尔就明确指出,他们并不希望该委员会寻求增税方案。
After 100 days in office, Mr Obama is still scorned by the people who scorned him as a candidate. But they are a minority.
入主白宫已经100天,奥巴马作为候选人时批评他的人依然没有改变初衷,但是他们毕竟是少数。
As leader of a minority coalition, Mr Reinfeldt will face a fresh set of difficulties.
作为少数党联盟的领导人,赖因费尔特将面临一系列的新的难题。
It will also worsen Afghanistan's main ethnic division between Pushtuns, Mr Karzai's group, and a powerful Tajik minority who voted mostly for Dr Abdullah.
同时,它也将加深阿富汗主要的民族裂痕,这一裂痕存在于卡尔扎伊所属的普什图人,与主要投票支持阿卜杜拉博士的强势少数族裔——塔吉克族之间。
“In demographic terms, ” Mr. Ferguson says, “the population of Western societies has long represented a minority of the world’s inhabitants, but today it is clearly a dwindling one.
弗格森说,“用人口统计学的术语来讲就是,西方社会长期代表着全世界的小众人口,但是当今社会,这种小众化趋势明显逐渐减小。
If pyramids are such a threat to minority shareholders, Mr Khanna asks, why does anybody ever buy shares in them?
如果对中小股东来说,金字塔是这样一种威胁,康纳问道,为什么还有人买进这类公司的股票呢?
Though a large majority of his compatriots surely hate Mr Assad's gangster regime which his father established over 40 years ago, a substantial minority may still back him.
虽然绝大多数叙利亚人确实痛恨由阿萨德的父亲在40多年前创立的强人政权,但仍在支持他的人数还是不少的。
As for Africa, Mr. Obama's Kenyan father was of the Luo tribe, a minority that has long suffered brutal discrimination in both Kenya and in Uganda (where it is known as the Acholi).
对非洲而言,奥巴马先生的肯尼亚父亲属于在肯尼亚和乌干达长期遭受野蛮歧视的卢奥族(在乌干达它又称阿科利)。
Mr Assad's minority supporters have paid a heavy price to keep his clan in power, but it is increasingly others who are doing the fighting and dying.
阿萨德的少数支持者为维持其家族掌权付出了沉重代价,但为其战斗和死亡的越来越多是其他人。
In fact, all but a small minority of New Zealanders have come to resent the ranting of Mr Peters.
事实上,除了一小部分人外,大多数的新西兰人对痞得屎的言论是反感的。
Accomplished artists such as Mr. Shang Yang, Mr. Xia Xiaowan, Mr. Qin Feng and young emerging artists such as Ma Ke are perhaps the silent minority of our time.
而象尚扬先生,夏小万先生,秦风先生等这些知名的艺术家和恍惚画派的这些青年画家中如马轲这样的某些艺术家,或者正是我们时代沉静的绝少数吧。
Mr. Peruzzo, of Royal Bank of Scotland, said he thought only a minority of investors had doubts about Germany.
苏格兰皇家银行的佩鲁佐先生说,他认为只有少数投资者对德国存有疑虑。
Mr Yang said China Life was also interested in buying minority stakes in overseas companies as a financial investor.
杨超暗示,中国人寿也有意作为金融投资者,买进海外公司的少数股权。
Mr Yang said China Life was also interested in buying minority stakes in overseas companies as a financial investor.
杨超表示,中国人寿也有意作为金融投资者,买进海外公司的少数股权。
But even Mr Ganal admits that a minority of its top-of-the-range buyers want a brand which isn't seen in every garage.
但是,就连加纳尔先生也承认,在其顶级买家中,有少数人希望拥有一种不是在每个车库都能看到的品牌。
But even Mr Ganal admits that a minority of its top-of-the-range buyers want a brand which isn't seen in every garage.
但是,就连加纳尔先生也承认,在其顶级买家中,有少数人希望拥有一种不是在每个车库都能看到的品牌。
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