21.   To be sure, hostile takeover attempts still represent a minority of the record-breaking number of mergers today.

22.   To be sure, the republican movement is up against a great tide of popular support for the queen, and most definitely represents a minority.

23.   A statement Thursday from the Karenni National Progressive Party, the political organization representing the minority, dismissed that explanation.

24.   Another ministry will go a group representing other minorities.

25.   Blunkett himself has been criticized by groups representing ethnic minorities for proposing greater integration of immigrants, including offering English lessons to new arrivals.

26.   But attempts by independents to ram them head on will likely prove futile and may just once again result in a winner representing a minority.

27.   Fifteen minorities are represented in Parliament.

28.   Hindus, Buddhists and Christians represent the minorities.

29.   In three, the council candidates were unchallenged, and the winners were two independent parties and a small party that represents minority Tamils.

30.   Kumaratunga characterized the Tigers as an extremist group that did not truly represent the minority Tamils of Sri Lanka.