So we went to battle against the lobbyists and a minority party that was united in their support of this outrageous status quo.
Some of you represent a minority party as a governor, yet you get on very well with -- you accomplish things in your home state.
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Mr Colmenares is from a minority party, and he is likely to face a tough challenge, not just from opponents in Congress but also the powerful Catholic Church.
Republicans could be counted on to do that when they were a minority party in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, and during two momentary lapses in 1982 and 1990.
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Still, for years afterwards the Republicans were able to wield great influence as a minority party thanks to a rule that required a two-thirds supermajority in both chambers to pass a budget.
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But Mr Wahid is the leader of a minority party presiding over a loose coalition, whose colleagues can run their ministries as their own fiefs and yet blame him for the slow pace of reform.
But as a relatively junior member of a minority party in Congress, he may have years ahead of him asking questions in committees, burnishing his voting record, climbing up the pecking order, and hoping for a political swing that will put his party in the majority.
The Republican Party in California has been a permanent minority party since 1994 when it backed Proposition 187, a law nearly identical to the Arizona Republican adopted last year.
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In other respects, governing as a large minority party might not be much trickier than governing with a small majority, which leaves prime ministers perpetually vulnerable to backbench rebellions.
In a separate incident, the leader of a minority political party was killed Wednesday as he drove through the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, a party official told CNN.
Before the Dean boom the Democrats were beginning to look like a permanent minority party in the making: too timid to do anything but go along with the White House's grand schemes for eliminating taxation or democratising the Middle East.
Indeed, an arrangement that allows a party with minority support to gain an outright victory is not only curious, but undemocratic.
Mr Assad felt vulnerable at home, too, presiding over a shaky police state dominated by his own minority Alawite sect, a Baathist party long since denuded of vision, a stumbling socialist economy, and a coterie of spy agencies run like rival mafia clans.
Though he is part of the minority party, a shrewd John Kerry also could use Congress as a helpful political ground.
It's an interesting issue, it's always been a matter for free votes, as you know, my own particular position has been a minority one inside the Labour Party which is in favour of the so-called middle way option of better regulation at one of the options which was flagged up by the report of Lord Burns.
The case began last week when a package addressed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived at his majority Conservative Party headquarters, and a hand was later found at a post office addressed to the minority Liberal Party, authorities said.
Some have responded by forming a new party, Glasgow First, reducing Labour to a minority administration.
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In 1992, with the BJP's then-president in attendance, organized Hindu mobs destroyed the mosque--the first example of a national political party associating with a campaign of violence against a minority.
In 1977-78 the Liberal Party propped up a minority Labour government which would otherwise have fallen.
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The Dutch coalition deal was copied from Denmark, where the Danish People's Party has backed a minority government since 2001.
The Liberals, the largest party, would form a minority coalition with the Christian Democrats.
Opposition parties claim that they will not block this in Congress, where Lula's nine-party coalition is in a minority.
That wobbled along until 1998 when the coalition split, and the National Party carried on as a minority government.
The party, which has headed a minority government since 1994, has spent three years preaching a new gospel of fiscal rigour and low inflation.
That, in turn, depends on the two parties splitting the remaining seats 49-50, with the vice-president (who casts the deciding vote in the case of a 50-50 tie) coming from the minority party.
If a third party purchased BNP's remaining stake, it could join forces with other minority shareholders and make a bid for control.
They are a distinct minority in the more than two dozen states the party dominates.
Skillful strategy and a world champion poker face have allowed Ortega to take power with a minority of domestic support and even dissent in his own party.
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The elections that gave her party seats in parliament, albeit in a minority, marked a turning point for the country after decades of oppression by its military rulers.
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