7 sentences with 'minorities'
Example sentences and phrases with the word minorities and other words derived from it.
• « The Germanic peoples themselves had begun as minorities, ruling over former Roman subjects. They tended to inherit the Roman bureaucracy and to rely on its officials and laws to govern their subjects, but they also had their own traditions of Germanic law based on clan membership. »
• « To be clear, non-Muslims occupied a secondary social and legal position in Ottoman society, but still enjoyed far better status and treatment than religious minorities in the Christian kingdoms of Europe at the time. »
• « The imperial silk monopoly collapsed and, in contrast to Abbas's pragmatic tolerance of religious minorities, the state (encouraged by conservative Shi'ite clerics) launched waves of persecution against Sunnis, Christians, Jews and Hindus. These groups had been at the heart of Iranian commerce, and thus the brief golden age brought about by Abbas came to an end almost as soon as it began. »
• « The Catholic Church (Roman/Latin): the Catholic Church remained dominant in almost all of southern Europe, including Italy, Spain, Austria, parts of the Balkans, and kingdoms such as Poland as well. Catholic minorities existed openly or secretly depending on the relative hostility of local rulers in much of the rest of Europe. »
• « First, Louis XIV relentlessly persecuted religious minorities, persecuting several small groups of religious dissidents but focusing most of his attention and ire on the Huguenots. »
• « A Concordat (agreement) with the Pope in 1801 restored the position of the Catholic Church in France, although it did not return Church property, nor did it abandon the principle of toleration for religious minorities. »
• « The "Capitulation Agreements" that had begun as concessions to religious minorities had been extended to European merchants during the 17th and 18th centuries. »