He says the biggest challenge is jobs the disabled have the lowest employment rate of any minority group in the country.

VOA: special.2009.08.15

I don't think that's the case because individually, the minority's value is just the same as the individual of the majority.

我认为事实并非如此，因为,少数人当中，每个个体的价值,和多数人的个体价值是一样的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And I went to the school where I was a member of a very small minority group.

而在我上的大学里,我则属于一个非常小的少数人群体。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

John Boehner, the minority leader in the House of Representatives, called it "thought crimes" legislation and "radical social policy."

VOA: special.2009.10.31

So there may be certain rights that the minority members have that the individual has that shouldn't be traded off for the sake of utility?

所以可能少数人,或个体的某些权利,不该为了功利最大化而被牺牲？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

This act of peaceful disobedience started protests in Montgomery that led to legal changes in minority rights in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

These qualities, he believes, are the preserve of the few, of a minority capable of sharing in the administration of justice and in the offices of a city.

他相信这些特质，是少数人所特有，他们能共享,正义的运作,与城市中的行政官位。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It asked more than one thousand women and minority members of the American Chemical Society about their experiences.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

A minority government of revolutionary Puritans had effectively taken control of the state. The radical Puritan Parliament voted to execute the tyrant -- what they considered to be the tyrant, King Charles I -- and to establish its own government.

清教徒革命者组建的少数政府成功的,控制了英国，激进的清教徒议会投票决定,处死暴君--他们认为是暴君的，国王查理一世--并组建自己的政府。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In such a system,he said, the minority would be able to veto actions of the majority.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

As you move later in their history, you find you can guess that there would be councils that were not purely of nobles but might be of wealthy people, but they would always be a minority and come from the upper class.

随着你们进一步了解希腊的历史,你们能轻易猜想到议会组成人员中,不仅仅只有贵族,还有富人,但他们都是来自上层阶级的少数人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Hispanics are now the nation's largest ethnic minority, and a fast growing group of voters.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

One has to do with whether utilitarianism adequately respects individual rights or minority rights, and the other has to do with the whole idea of aggregating utility or preferences or values.

一点是关于，功利主义,是否充分尊重个体和少数的权利，另一点是关于,加总功利，或偏好，或价值的看法。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But he says opponents of the college represent a minority opinion in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

If the majority rules that there should be taxation, even if the minority should still not have to be taxed because that's taking away property, which is one of the rights of nature.

即使多数人规定应当征税，少数人仍并不一定非要交税,因为那等于夺走少数人的财产，而财产权是自然权利之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But it has been effective. It has helped to balance a potentially disruptive tension between the desires of a minority and the broader interests of our all-volunteer force."

VOA: special.2010.02.06

In 1859, Mill wrote a famous book on liberty, the main point of which was the importance of defending individual rights and minority rights, and in 1861, toward the end of his life, he wrote the book we read as part of this course, "Utilitarianism."

859年穆勒写了本关于自由的名著，书里的主要观点是,争取个体和少数群体权利的重要性，1861年，在晚年时期，他写了《功利主义》，这也属于本课的阅读资料“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Thousands of young people, who had previously thought of themselves as part of an isolated minority, experienced the euphoric sense of discovering that they are, as the saying goes, what's happening."

VOA: special.2009.08.10

All the members of the minority party voted against the Senate measure, and only one supported the legislation passed in the House.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

A member of Romania's ethnic German minority, Mueller knew persecution under the rule of the Ceausescu regime.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

The Tamil Tigers struggle for an independent homeland was triggered by complaints of discrimination against the minority Tamil community by the majority Sinhalese.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Minority Sunni groups, in particular ethnic Baluchis, have long complained of discrimination in the Shi'ite dominated country.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

The neighborhood,he says, is inhabited by the Turkmen minority, but representatives of their community are not saying who they think was behind the explosion.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

Commodore Bainimarama seized power claiming the elected government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase was dishonest and pursuing racist policies against the ethnic Indian minority.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Leaders of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jewish minority quickly condemned the Tel Aviv shooting as murder and called for the gunman to be caught and punished.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

Researchers say the reasons for this disparity include stereotyping of patients by health care providers, and a severe shortage of minority health care professionals.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

The death of Habyarimana,a Hutu, set off a wave of violence against Rwanda's Tutsi minority.

VOA: standard.2009.04.10

In 2005,then-minority Senate Democrats mounted an unsuccessful effort to filibuster the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who was nominated by former-President George W.Bush.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

But Udon Thani is also home a small minority of Yellow Shirts, a rival movement whose street protests helped prompt the 2006 coup that removed Mr.Thaksin.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Justice Sotomayor is expected to generally side with the liberal minority on court, following in the footsteps of the man she replaced, retired Justice David Souter.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01