The phrase "a negative majority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing voting, opinions, or sentiments where the majority holds a negative view or stance on a particular issue.
Example: "In the recent survey, we found that there was a negative majority regarding the proposed policy changes."
Alternatives: "a majority against" or "a prevailing negative opinion".
Nixon has reversed the course that the Warren Court had taken for 15 years-that he switched the 5-4 positive majority to a 5-4 negative majority under Chief Justice Warren E. Burger.
The first column represents the imbalance degree of the experiment, which is varied from 1-to-5 to 1-to-99, by randomly discarding negative (majority) instances.
"It's in London where they have to find the ways and means to build a positive majority between the two negative majorities that exist today in the House of Commons," he said.
The negative majorities that voted "no confidence" in a cabinet usually could not stay together for the positive purpose of confirming a new cabinet.
For one thing, To give a minority a negative upon the majority (which is always the case where more than a majority is requisite to a decision), is, in its tendency, to subject the sense of the greater number to that of the lesser.
To give a minority a negative upon the majority (which is always the case where more than a majority is requisite to a decision), is, in its tendency, to subject the sense of the greater number to that of the lesser.… The necessity of unanimity in public bodies, or of something approaching towards it, has been founded upon a supposition that it would contribute to security.
Negative majorities cannot paralyze government unless they can agree on alternative policies and personnel.
If screening were discontinued for all women over 50 with a negative history, the majority of cytological abnormalities now being detected at these ages that lead directly to referral to colposcopy would be missed.
However, these pupils face several challenges, which include a negative attitude that the majority of the parents have towards education.
But Moody's issued a negative outlook for a majority of colleges and universities heavily dependent on tuition and state revenue.
