Sentence examples for Achieved majority from inspiring English sources

Overall, to date, the shareholder proposal has achieved majority support at 60percentt of the companies where it was opposed.

We can model this by replacing the variables indicating the percentage of state and national voters who support same-sex marriage in the model with probabilistic variables indicating how likely it is that same-sex marriage has achieved majority status.

For Mr. Mugabe, 75, the only leader this nation of 12.5 million people has known since it achieved majority rule two decades ago, the defeat was regarded as a considerable setback, one certain to energize the growing opposition as the country prepares for parliamentary elections in April.

Zimbabwe achieved majority rule and internationally recognized independence in April 1980 following a long period of colonial rule and a 15-year period of white-dominated minority rule, instituted after the minority regime's so-called Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965.

None of these statements achieved majority agreement or disagreement consensus.

In 1424 the Manor was sold to Sir Walter Hungerford, and after some time was eventually granted to Catherine Parr temporarily until the Hungerford heir achieved majority.

But in reality, election systems are almost never designed to achieve majority rule alone.

"We have some of the pains that you suffer from when you achieve majority status," Mr. Tompkins said.

In some cases, the shareholder proposal failed to achieve majority support in the face of "straight" or "soft" opposition.

In addition, other ESG proposals, while failing to achieve majority support, nevertheless received a relatively high percentage of support in the 30 percent to 40percentt ranges of approval.

Crunching all the numbers, the poll maven Nate Silver sees same-sex marriage achieving majority support "at some point in the 2010s".