Witnesses and activists from Houla, a string of villages northwest of Homs where most residents belong to Syria's Sunni Muslim majority, claimed that pro-government thugs from neighboring villages of Alawites the minority sect that essentially rules the country led the attacks there, shooting or killing women and children in their beds.
Britain and America have widely diffused share ownership with strict rules to protect minority shareholders.
The new rules will cap a minority bonus at 10 percent, meaning the company's bid would be lowered by 10 percent to determine which bidder gets the contract.
However, if this sort of manoeuvre is finally ruled to be legal, the rules designed to protect minority shareholders will be made worthless since it will always be easy for majority owners to frustrate them by handing out lots of small blocks of shares to their friends.
Both the police and their critics agree that most brutality is committed by a small minority of officers who repeatedly break the rules.
The scheme allowed Triad's well-heeled backers to influence campaigns while avoiding disclosure rules and contribution limits, the minority report concludes.
Minority politicians naturally gravitate towards the party that rules their neighbourhood.
Polls show only a minority of Americans are willing to change the rules so that filibusters can be stopped with just 50 votes instead of 60, even on judicial nominations.
His government has tightened accounting rules to make business more open, given minority shareholders and institutional investors more say in corporate affairs and opened South Korea's capital markets.
The only way one of the most controversial proposals ever considered by any Congress, namely Mr. Obama's "reform" of health care, will be approved is if the Senate disregards its own traditions and rules designed to protect the rights of the minority.
He is not ruling out the businesses of Indonesia's Salim family, which holds 31% of First Pacific. (Other Salim allies control 23% more.) Two conditions have to be met: the acquisition must make commercial sense for First Pacific and its minority shareholders, and it must satisfy Hong Kong's rules on connected-party transactions.
Under the rules, the majority party called two witnesses and the minority party one.
Companies are subject to different rules on accounting, information disclosure and the treatment of minority shareholders.
But away from Delhi the party continues to spread a culture of intolerance in the states where it rules, aiming its darts at Muslims, India's largest religious minority.
The PGA Tour has rules prohibiting a tournament at any club that has a policy or a practice that discriminated against a racial minority or women.
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