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An ethnic majority describes the numerical dominance of individuals of an ethnic group within the total population of a particular political or geographical entity.
Karzai relies more on the ethnicmajority Pashtun south like Kandahar, his birthplace.
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Using Cohen's d, results indicated a null effect size for the ethnicmajority-minority group comparison.
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Sri Lanka's government, led by the Sinhalese ethnicmajority, says the casualty figures are hugely inflated.
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Sri Lanka's ethnicmajority Sinhalese are primarily Buddhists.
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Rajapaksa is from the Sinhalese ethnicmajority, which has led all governments since independence from Britain in 1948.
Usage of majority population in English
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You tell me what the majoritypopulation is and it's women.
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At the same time, the majoritypopulation's attitude has become more hostile almost everywhere in Europe.
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Gerrymandering meant that Protestants always controlled the city council, even though Catholics were the majoritypopulation.
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Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim- majoritypopulation.
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He knows demographic shifts will create a Catholic majoritypopulation in Northern Ireland in the next generation or so.
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Travellers and asylum-seekers are the minorities viewed most negatively by the majoritypopulation, according to a study published yesterday.
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These are mostly among the ten non-Han ethnic groups, some of which form the majoritypopulation in remote northwestern China.
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Most important is how horrifyingly ignorant are the British and Irish governments and peoples about the majoritypopulation of Northern Ireland.
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The government of Bahrain, where a Sunni Muslim minority rules a Shi'ite majoritypopulation, has said the deal protects its interests from Iran.
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By this time next year, you'll really start to notice the network in Ireland and it'll be majoritypopulation coverage the year after that.
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There have been disputes and minor clashes in Slovakia between Roma and the majoritypopulation, especially in smaller towns, but no racist multiple murders.
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As it is, educated Roma do not fit the stereotypes, so they can easily blend into the majoritypopulation, but the majority's hostility remains.
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Romania already has a similar programme for the majoritypopulation, and minister of education Remus Pricopie has pledged to open it up to the Roma.
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The province fell into the militants' hands after years of tension between the Shi'ite Muslim-led government and the Sunni majoritypopulation, which seeks greater autonomy.
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But the ban is less about religion than about putting non-Malay minorities in their place, subordinating their status to that of Muslims, the majoritypopulation.
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It could also mean forcefully playing the "Hindus-first" card, which they say could appeal to the majoritypopulation but risk creating communal conflict.