Sentence examples for a substantial plurality from inspiring English sources

Although ninety per cent of the electorate went to the polls, and by a substantial plurality voted for the only significant opposition party, Hun Sen threatened to secede and go to war if the vote was not "corrected".

Independents make up a substantial plurality in blue-collar East Haven: 47.6 percent of the town's registered voters are unaffiliated, compared with 36.7 percent who are Democrats and 15.4 percent who are Republicans.

In an earlier report, Voxburner found that a substantial plurality of young people surveyed also said they believe that e-books were too expensive.

Romney has dropped his attacks on Obama's alleged "entitlement society" and on administration policies that supposedly push the country toward "European socialism," but he cannot win without addressing and engaging the convictions of a substantial conservative plurality in the electorate.

These pioneering local news providers are making a substantial contribution to local plurality and civic voice.

After excluding potentially ambiguous quartets, the remaining quartets that provided a signal were a minority of the initial set, a substantial proportion of them disagreed with the plurality consensus phylogenetic signal, and those that did agree combined to form a non-tree-like signal.

Bradley: Bradley (1994: 138) explicitly speaks of plurality as "an integral aspect in a substantial unity," and (1994: 141) says that the One "embraces every partial diversity in concord," summarizing (1994: 178): "The Reality, therefore, must be One, not as excluding diversity, but as somehow including it in such a way as to transform its character".

Instead, public opinion has remained mostly static: a plurality of Americans still disapprove of the law, and a substantial portion of the public remains uncertain about what it says, according to recent polls.

Providence has had a substantial Italian population since the start of the 20th century, with 14% (a plurality) of the population claiming Italian ancestry.

Consider the striking results of a recent poll by the Pew Research Center: In most large European countries, a plurality of people say Germans are the hardest-working Europeans, with a substantial share also saying that Greeks are the least hard-working.

Thus the "secure the borders first" position on immigration is defined as incorrigibly right-wing and potential general election poison by reporters, even though a plurality of independents prioritize border security over a path to citizenship and a substantial minority of Democrats do as well.