Sentence examples for achieved majority from inspiring English sources

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.

So far, none of his proposed anti-Islam policies have achieved majority support (outlawing all immigration from Muslim countries, a ban on building new mosques, and a tax on headscarves, with the affectionately suggested name, head-rag-tax).

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

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

He espoused the cause of the African National Congress in South Africa in fighting apartheid and seeking to achieve majority rule, and became a close friend of the country's first black president, Nelson Mandela.

While it may be put in trust until the child achieves majority, it could not simply be used by the council to offset any costs of its statutory duty of care.

The compression strategy was changed from the conventional way of controlling quantizer resolution to achieving majority of the compression in the transformation itself.