1 This is that which puts the authority into the parents hands to govern the minority of their children.
2 This ends not with minority, but holds in all parts and conditions of a man's life.
3 paternal power to parents for the benefit of their children during their minority, to supply their want of ability, and understanding how to manage their property.
4 Paternal power is only where minority makes the child incapable to manage his property; political, where men have property in their own disposal; and despotical, over such as have no property at all.
5 They despise the submission and subserviency of the Southern Negroes, but offer no other means by which a poor and oppressed minority can exist side by side with its masters.
6 There were a few of the coloured students who felt that the Indians ought not to be admitted to Hampton, but these were in the minority.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter VI. 7 In that section, the Confederate sympathizers were in the minority and the hand of war fell heavily upon them, as it did on all the border states, neighbor informing against neighbor and brother killing brother.
8 Thanks to the negro vote, the Republicans and their allies were firmly entrenched and they were riding rough-shod over the powerless but still protesting minority.
9 The protesting minority were forgotten in the throng which abjured and came; and the audience was almost as brilliant as the show.
10 Some, a minority, acknowledged him to be different from themselves and from everyone else, expected great things of him, listened to him, admired, and imitated him, and with them Prince Andrew was natural and pleasant.
11 Natasha felt that she would be left with her mother and Sonya among a minority of women who crowded near the wall, not having been invited to dance.
12 If minor errors were punished so sternly, what would be the fate of this arch rebel.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE 13 Then they went in to lunch, and Mrs. Manresa bubbled up, enjoying her own capacity to surmount, without turning a hair, this minor social crisis--this laying of two more places.
14 She seems a minor, and must therefore be at our royal disposal in marriage.
15 Love was only a minor accompaniment.