But the dispensationalists remain the most vocal segment, Mr. Cizik said.

Over the years they have been supported by a vocal segment of the nearly one-million-strong Cuban-American community and its conservative allies.

Why are the majority of Americans allowing themselves time and time again to be silenced by a tiny, but vocal, segment of the population?

These days, retirees make up a sizeable, vocal segment of the population; year-round residents have increased, there is more ethnic, economic and racial diversity.

A small but extremely vocal segment here opposes the crime bill because it includes a ban on several types of assault weapons.

One small but increasingly vocal segment of the home furnishings industry, where executives are predominantly male, offered its own solution to furniture's problems: put more women in charge.

Mr. Chatham conducted everything except the vocal segment.

At other times, though, the vocal segments pile up into a painful jumble, like a heaping bowl of shattered glass.

Paul Hardcastle's 1985 song "19" features it throughout in both the spoken word and vocal segments.

It is now clear that a large, vocal and politically aggressive segment of the public has little appetite for artistic provocation.