You'll notice that he didn't attend the NAACP conference last year as a candidate for the GOP nomination, and he didn't participate in a debate on minority issues.

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John Mueller, of America's University of Rochester, argues that democracy has had a good, if imperfect, record of dealing with minority issues, particularly when compared with other forms of government.

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She is widely published and is an international public policy speaker on gender and minority equality issues and appears regularly in print media and TV.

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And there are most certainly hedge and vulture funds building such blocking minority positions in some bond issues.

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One would involve an impartially facilitated national dialogue to address internal Congolese issues such as army and justice reform, decentralization, electoral frameworks, immigration, minority protections, land dispute adjudication, mining codes and other divisive issues.

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ROME, Italy (CNN) -- Minority parties in Italy are seeking to raise issues largely ignored by mainstream politics in campaigning for this Sunday's general election.

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While not granted fast track to stop the merger, the Delaware Court does believe there are issues worthy of adjudication in the demonstration that minority shareholders of Sprint have been abused in this transaction.

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After Senate leaders jockeyed for days over procedural issues tied to consideration of the bills, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, unexpectedly announced Wednesday morning that Republicans would agree to Democratic demands and hold back-to-back votes requiring neither side to garner a filibuster-proof 60-vote margin.

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But Thorbjorn Jagland, leader of the opposition Labour Party, has been tentatively raising the issue again, partly to embarrass the ruling centre-right minority coalition, which is at odds with itself over a number of European issues.

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In other southern states big urban and minority populations hold sway in Democratic primaries, pulling candidates to the left of the general electorate and highlighting polarising issues such as race and immigration.

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Because Mr Harper runs a minority government that could fall at any time, he has chiefly focused on short-term, voter-pleasing issues like cracking down on illegal immigration.

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