Sentence examples for a majority of lay from inspiring English sources

Have the functions of the diocesan review boards with a majority of lay members been significantly reduced under the revised norms or left to be defined by the local bishop?

He said that the position had been appointed by a panel headed by Sir Hayden Philips, the former civil servant who helped reform the honours system "I was on the panel, but there were a majority of lay people," explained Moses.

In 1985 the National Consumer Council published a survey showing that only 15% of respondents felt that the Law Society should be investigating complaints, and only 5% felt that if an independent body was created it should contain a solicitor majority, with 36% wanting equal representation of solicitors and lay people and 55% preferring a majority of lay people.

Although it contained only nebulous safeguards for conservatives, the latest proposal was backed by a thumping majority of lay delegates to the Synod: 152 in favour and just 45 against.

In the following year, at the 'PubliForum' a consensus conference on transplantation medicine a majority of lay participants affirmed their support for xenotransplantation research (Griessler 2012: 66).

The foreign word 'frustratsioon' has been introduced into Estonian quite lately but remains unknown to the majority of lay people.

The majority of lay people said that they would wish to have access to this type of information before consenting to participate in a clinical trial.

In this study, the majority of lay counsellors reported that they received adequate training for both HIV is counselling and testing.

Scenario 2 builds on the first scenario but only 50% of the consultation costs for lay educators are used to examine the impact of the large majority of lay advisers who did not claim back for their time.

Still, the dioceses of Fort Worth and Quincy, Ill., have not ordained women, prompting a majority of clergy and lay representatives at the convention today to pass a resolution that would set up a task force to "assist" the two dioceses -- as well as the diocese of San Joaquin, Calif., which only recently began ordaining women -- in complying with the church law.

A majority of earlier studies of lay narratives have focused on either women's or men's experiences.