1.   As with other cosmetic procedures, male clients are a distinct minority.

2.   A distinct minority, Afro-Mexicans face discrimination and often live in conditions of extreme poverty that never make headlines here.

3.   But even when they were a distinct minority, whites continued to see themselves and their culture as a raceless norm and blacks and black culture as a subgroup.

4.   But he is in the distinct minority in this one.

5.   But the most recent survey of American opinion suggests strongly that he and other critics of the president are in a distinct minority.

6.   But, for the first fall in years, these films are in the distinct minority and can almost be counted on two hands.

7.   Comparisons of black and Hispanic populations are tricky because Hispanics, though recognized as a distinct ethnic minority, may count their race as white or black.

8.   Conservative evangelicals have realized that they are a distinct minority-- a large one but still a minoritywhose views do not resonate with contemporary values and opinions on religion.

9.   Despite their distinct minority status in Congress, the opposition parties have elected enough representatives to sometimes force the president to modify proposed legislation.

10.   Even among GOP voters, anti-abortion activists constitute a distinct minority nationally.