On the surface, the principles of majority rule and the protection of individual and minority rights would seem contradictory.

从表面看，多数决定与保护个人和少数派权利的原则似乎相互矛盾。

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Improbably, the traumas suffered as a result of South Africa's white-minority rule have now become one of cinema's most fertile territories.

令人难以置信地，由南非少数白人统治所造成的心灵创伤有可能已经成为电影创作的最肥沃土壤之一。

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A minority presence in sci-fi and action realms even in 2010, women warriors remain the exception to the guy-centric rule in film, TV, videogames and comic books.

即便是到了21世纪，在科幻和动作片中露脸的女战士形象依然不多，电影、电视、游戏和漫画中被清一色的硬汉所统治。

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

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He led the struggle against white-minority rule before being elected the first black president in 1994.

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He led the struggle against white-minority rule before being elected the first black president in democratic elections in 1994.

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Equally, however, it is the case that his biggest tasks are behind him - minority rule, the Scotland Act which upgrades Holyrood's powers and the groundwork for a deal between Edinburgh and London over the referendum.

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