Sentence examples for a slight majority and from inspiring English sources

The elections were part of the efforts of the ruling Khalifa family, who are Sunni Muslims, to appease Shiite Muslims, who comprise a slight majority, and bridge the deep and potentially explosive sectarian divisions in the country.

Thirty-three condition-goal pairs did not reach consensus (19 condition-goal pairs were tied and 14 had a slight majority towards concordance) and went to the second round.

With an inter-confessional divide pitting Orthodox Serbs and Greeks against Muslim Bosnians and Turks—looming in south-eastern Europe, Albania stands out as a country where Muslims (who form a slight majority), Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians get along reasonably well.

There was a slight majority of physicians and females.

Only once before, in 1986, has the state accounted for even a slight majority of the executions, and that was in a year with 18 executions nationwide.

But in the last local elections, in 2008, when the future of the church was the main issue, a slight majority supported Mr. Léger and his majority on the town council.

For example, in 2012 incumbent President Barack Obama won by only three percentage points over challenger Mitt Romney with a slight majority of 50.8percentt -- and the state would likely have been near a dead heat if Obama and Romney had tied in the popular vote.

And a slight majority said Mrs. Clinton was the stronger advocate of Israel, despite Mr. Lazio's escalating attacks on her Middle East views at a time of increasing unrest in the region.

Mean (SD) age of patients was approximately 43 (14) years, and a slight majority of patients were female (57%).

In its recent classes, about 40percentt of the students were women, for example, and a slight majority of students were minorities.

And a slight majority (54 percent) felt that Snowden should be criminally prosecuted.