1.   Even a vocal minority of skilled manual workers supported the ban.

2.   Among Palestinians, who have been embittered by a year of bloody conflict with Israel, sharp criticism came from a vocal minority.

3.   An angry vocal minority often prevails over the calmer, less agitated majority.

4.   And a vocal minority is complaining.

5.   As a freshman senator, Joe Lieberman was part of a vocal minority then that loudly called for a NATO response with US leadership.

6.   A vocal black minority wants to establish an independent black state.

7.   Abortion is murder, says the vocal minority that dictates the Republican Party platform.

8.   Although both executives think they have the majority of their members behind them, a vocal minority in opposition has at least Estenson uncertain about the outcome.

9.   But a vocal minority are increasingly candid about their goals.

10.   But a vocal minority, many of whom apparently belong to the media, seemed to read more into it.