Mr. Yeltsin himself has admitted that he neglected to work the legislative corridors well enough, failing to hold together even his minority constituency of liberal, pro-Western, market-oriented deputies.

And the minority constituency, who is exactly what the Republican Party is courting, get the soft words.

Once they do this (creating isolation from their minority constituency), we question their motives.

The more middle class areas can be found in Prior to the 1990 election the constituency was one of the 20 white minority constituencies.

In Suffolk, Steve Levy, the county executive, responded generally when asked how he intended to balance the interests of minority constituencies in landing contracts.

Not so, said Mr. Dunne: "The proposition that only minority officeholders may effectively represent a minority constituency does not accurately state the law or the policy of the Justice Department."

Created in 1969, the CBC was designed to ensure that concerns of African American and minority constituencies were addressed.

I had friends from the Army's biggest minority constituencies, blacks and Hispanics.

The National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) has 113 members, elected for a five-year term, 105 members elected in multi-seat constituencies and 8 members elected in single-seat national minority constituencies.

The Armageddon aspect of the essay applies only to a widely publicized but minority constituency of apocalyptic fundamentalists (for example, Hal Lindsey and various television evangelists).