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Yet if many people follow this line of reasoning, and do not vote, a minority of the population can determine a country’s future, leaving a discontented majority.但如果很多人都按照这种推理方式不参与选举，那么少数人就可以决定国家的命运，而使绝大多数人对现状感到不满。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 15.01.2011© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 15.01.2011
Collegial panels shall apply the principle of "the minority is subordinate to the majority" in the review of cases.合议组审理案件，实行少数服从多数的原则。© 中国投资指南http://www.fdi.gov.cn/index.htm 26.04.2011© Invest in Chinahttp://www.fdi.gov.cn/index.htm 26.04.2011
From a model applicable to the minority of the world’s population, “Western consumer society” is becoming the dominant economic model of the world, one to which there is increasingly no alternative.“西方消费社会”已经从对世界人口少数人适用的一种模式转变为独霸全球的经济模 式。而且，这一模式越发没有可以替代的其他模式了。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 11.01.2011© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 11.01.2011
Moreover, those women who do reach higher-ranking positions are susceptible to a visibility-vulnerability spiral, owing to their minority status.而且，那些提升到更高职位的妇女由于居于少数地位，其知名度容易受到损害而螺旋状下降。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 28.10.2010© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 28.10.2010
Among which the net assets do not cover minority stockholders' rights and interests.其中：净资产中不含少数股东权益。© 中国投资指南http://www.fdi.gov.cn/index.htm 30.04.2011© Invest in Chinahttp://www.fdi.gov.cn/index.htm 30.04.2011
The state shall help all minority nationality regions develop educational undertakings in light of the characteristics and requirements of different minority nationalities.国家根据各少数民族的特点和需要，帮助各少数民族发展教育事业。© 中国投资指南http://www.fdi.gov.cn/index.htm 01.04.2011© Invest in Chinahttp://www.fdi.gov.cn/index.htm 01.04.2011
The state assists and supports minority nationality regions, remote border areas, and poverty-stricken areas to develop their electric power industries.国家帮助和扶持少数民族地区、边远地区和贫困地区发展电力事业。© 中国投资指南http://www.fdi.gov.cn/index.htm 01.04.2011© Invest in Chinahttp://www.fdi.gov.cn/index.htm 01.04.2011
Resolving Kosovo’s status is also a necessity for the province’s Serb minority, who continue to live in uncertainty, not knowing whether to look to Belgrade or Pristina for protection of their rights.解决科索沃的地位问题同时也是该省作为少数民族的塞族的需要，否则他们将会继续陷入不安之中，不知该去贝尔格莱德还是塞尔维亚和黑山寻求自己权益的保护。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 23.02.2009© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 23.02.2009
Moreover, Kosovo’s ambition to join the EU in the next decade means that its treatment of the Serb minority will attract very close and intensive scrutiny.不仅如此，科索沃在未来十年内加入欧盟的理想意味着它对塞尔维亚少数族裔的待遇将会受到非常严密和认真的审查。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 23.01.2011© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 23.01.2011
With the approval of people's governments of the provincial level, enterprises of autonomous minority nationality areas may get reduction or exemption of business income tax regularly.民族自治地方的企业经省级人民政府批准，可以定期减征或免征企业所得税。© 中国投资指南http://www.fdi.gov.cn/index.htm 14.06.2011© Invest in Chinahttp://www.fdi.gov.cn/index.htm 14.06.2011
Since the inception of the Working Group on Minorities, Minority Rights Group has held a well- established, one-week training seminar for minorities during the week prior to the sessions of the Working Group.42^自少数群体问题工作组成立以来，少数人权利团体 在工作组会议前一个星期举办一个为期一周的训练 班。© 2000-2011年版权http://www.un.org/ 02.02.2011© United Nations 2010http://www.un.org/ 02.02.2011
In Britain, the concern about social promotion of minorities led to the introduction in 1991 of statistics that indicate ethnic status.在英国，有关少数族裔社会进步的关注导致在1991年开始采用表明种族地位的统计数据。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 28.10.2010© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 28.10.2010
One of the major goals of WHO was therefore to address the health needs of the under- served and those who are already vulnerable to discrimination, such as minorities.卫生组织的主要目 标之一是应付那些没有获得周到服务和易受歧视的人 (如少数民族〉的保健需要。© 2000-2011年版权http://www.un.org/ 02.02.2011© United Nations 2010http://www.un.org/ 02.02.2011
Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan again have significant minorities saying that women are now treated less equally than they once were.俄国、乌克兰和阿塞拜疆再次有大量的少数族裔认为妇女的平等地位与以前相比有所降低。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 16.02.2011© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 16.02.2011
Moreover, Russia is hinting at the many worries within EU countries about potential demands for self-rule, by, for example, the Basques in Spain, the Turks in northern Cyprus, and the large Hungarian minorities in Romania and Slovakia.而且，俄罗斯还暗示，欧盟国家自身也将面临潜在的自治要求，例如西班牙的巴斯克人，塞浦路斯的土耳其人，以及罗马尼亚和斯洛文尼亚的大量匈牙利少数民族。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 23.02.2009© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 23.02.2009
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Minority Rights Group
少数人权利团体
Working Group on Minorities
少数群体问题工作组
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| Common case | minority | minorities |
| Possessive case | minority's | minorities' |