Ms Sturgeon has been at the heart of government, playing a key role when the SNP won minority control in 2007 and again when it won a majority in 2011.
Addressing wider concerns about Venezuela's prison system, Ms Varela has said that violent inmates were "a minority who maintain control through terror".
The reasoning: A minority owner lacks control of the asset, can't liquidate it, can't get income from it unless the business makes a distribution and can't sell it easily.
The difference between the two prices reflects the different rights that attend being a minority holder or a control owner.
Reduce the power of Wall Street: Constrain the market for corporate control, in which minority investors strong-arm chief executives into maximizing short-term profits.
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He says most of the Serb population want to see the return of ordinary policing, and that they are being intimidated by a criminal minority who are intent on keeping control of the area.
Serbia still claims Kosovo, even though Serbs are a small minority to the ethnic Albanians, who control the government.
If a third party purchased BNP's remaining stake, it could join forces with other minority shareholders and make a bid for control.
Granted, he will not have control of KirchMedia: other minority shareholders in the company, including Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset, are also expected to beef up their stakes.
But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.
That's because to control the Senate, the minority party would need to reach 51 seats, which means a net gain of six (assuming the independent from Vermont still votes with the Democrats).
Over the three-year observation period, the African-American students who took part in the study had higher grade-point averages relative to multiple control groups, and the minority achievement gap overall was reduced by a dramatic 50%.
Tom Daschle, now the minority leader, to be majority leader, shifting control of the Senate to the Democrats.
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Pro-government minority shareholders are now seeking a court order giving them temporary control of the station.
Next year's introduction of consolidated accounting will force companies to take on to their books subsidiaries in which they have effective control, even though they may have only a minority stake.
Wilpon and Katz have insisted they are not going to give up control of the team or sell their 68% stake in SportsNet New York, the regional sports channel they control, and Time Warner and Comcast own the minority interests.
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To be sure, Obama has been battered by a series of struggles, starting with the economy, but including a series of events that were at least initially beyond his control -- from the Gulf oil disaster to a Republican minority that by any objective standard has tried to block him at every single turn -- and dragged down his approval ratings.
Fisher wisely established the ventures in a way that gave local partners minority stakes in exchange for business assets, ensuring that Kodak would have operational control.
His aim now is gradually to free privatised businesses from continued interference by ministries that retained minority, but not insignificant, stakes of around 26-35% when control was sold to private-sector buyers over the past couple of years.
Management maintains majority control of the software business, while Cressey and SV Life own a minority stake, sources note.
In addition, while TeliaSonera does have a presence in Russia through MegaFon, and in Turkey through Turkcell, both investments are minority stakes, and alongside majority shareholders who are not prepared to give up much control, said Goyens.
The Lib Dems won control of the city council in June 2009 after it had been run by a minority administration since 2005.
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Traditionally, the company does not make an investment unless it can gain control, but in August, Schneider hinted that the company would consider becoming a minority shareholder in a joint venture involving its pharmaceuticals business.
Although minority stakes have been sold in state-run firms, the government is loth to give up control.
Although only a minority of people - between one and two in every 10 - has symptoms, advisers say extra measures to control the disease may be needed.
Minority shareholders in Hollinger International reckon that their shares would be worth far more if the assets are sold than if control simply passes to the Barclays.
House Minority Leader John Boehner downplayed the New York developments Sunday but conceded that his party was affected by forces beyond its control -- and predicted a rocky road ahead.
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