At present, over two-thirds of Pakistan's parliamentary constituencies are rural, with the urban population supposedly still a minority.
Videophones have failed to take off, and videoconferencing is still a minority sport, mostly because the Internet is still so clunky.
But right now smartphones are still a minority of the phone market, and even among smartphones, you have to have a front-facing camera.
That is still a minority view, but financial markets clearly expect things to get at least bad enough for the Fed to start cutting interest rates soon.
Despite Jack Welch's personal intervention, it took two years for GE to get its bulbs back on shelves in what is still a minority position to Philips.
But swiping your phone to pay for a coffee or a sandwich is still a minority sport, and few people yet see their handset as a mobile wallet.
And although in Britain the Internet is still a minority activity, concerned more with commerce than with entertainment, the world's media firms are pretty sure that it is not going to stay that way.
DPJ's internal differences will probably not be as big a problem, at least initially, as will the upper house, in which it will still hold a minority of seats.
Meanwhile, in Egypt - a country that long was Christian before it was conquered by Muslims and still has a sizeable minority known as Coptic Christians - has just adopted a constitution based on shariah law.
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While the number of courses has quietly tripled in the last decade to over 600, golf is still very much a minority sport and even though significant growth is expected with the expansion of a middle class predicted to have doubled its 2010 level of 52 million by 2015, the sport is still eye-wateringly expensive.
This is often forgotten by the other third, but the stark truth is that Internet is still a privilege of the minority.
Start-ups still make up a small minority of German venture-capital deals.
Yet because a large minority still smokes cigarettes, realism demands that they can't be entirely banished from the screen.
And with the polls currently showing an across-the-board swing to Labour anyway, the Tories will have a still harder time attracting minority votes.
In a city still dominated by the Irish, not even minority leaders expect Boston to elect a black mayor any time soon.
But as French-speakers move to the suburbs, and immigrants settle in central Montreal, there are still fears that French could become a minority tongue in Quebec's largest city.
Both say without No Child Left Behind the achievement of poor and minority kids would still be a low priority.
Acres of newsprint have been devoted to their troubles, even though, at around 4, 000 families, they represent a small, and still privileged, minority of Zimbabwe's victims.
While they still may be in the minority, a growing number of investors are finding that those risks aren't as worrisome anymore when compared with Europe's deep-seated problems.
Sheila Coleman, of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, said a misinformed minority of people still believed Liverpool supporters caused the tragedy, even though the Hillsborough Independent Panel said police and other agencies were at fault for the disaster and subsequent cover-up.
He attended an all-black high school growing up in Port Arthur, Texas, where he still remembers what it was like to be a minority.
Still, there is a view, if a minority one, that some home builders are on a comeback track and are likely to post good revenue numbers and tidy profits by next year.
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Serbia still claims Kosovo, even though Serbs are a small minority to the ethnic Albanians, who control the government.
Still, some surveys show that it's a minority of the population that places fame ahead of all other priorities in life.
Sell majority ownership in the Mets and maintain a minority stake in the ball club while still preserving their ownership in SportsNet New York.
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