Sentence examples for based on a majority from inspiring English sources

As the American Bar Association explained in a scathing 2006 report on the state's death penalty system, Florida is one of the few states that allows a jury to recommend a sentence of death based on a majority vote rather than a unanimous one.

A class label is assigned based on a majority vote of its k nearest neighbors.

The panel of judges will choose the winner based on a majority decision with equal voting rights amongst the judges.

The similarity and uniqueness are mapped through a decision making strategy based on a majority voting criterion.

Some U.A.W. officials are urging Volkswagen to recognize the union based on a majority of cards they say have been signed.

According to Mr Dershowitz, "You can be sure that the school would not allow a student to get up and say 'In the name of Zeus, let's have a good game tonight.' "Critics also contend that free religious expression based on a majority vote is inherently unconstitutional, since it infringes the rights of those, no matter how few, who may object.

Never before has such a drastic decision been taken through so primitive a procedure – a one-round referendum based on a simple majority.

Coleman predicts a showdown: "This is a battle about the future of the country, based on a new majority, and we have to have this out".

The chart shows that this rule, based on a plain majority of countries and of people, markedly increases ease of action.

Although he believed that a democratic monarchy based on a Reichstag majority was inevitable, he was not an enthusiast of parliamentary government, and his half-hearted efforts to reform the Prussian suffrage were ineffective.

Presumably, we are long since past the days when blue laws were inflicted on all, based on a religious majority's idea of what was or was not permissible on "the Sabbath" (conveniently ignoring the fact that other faiths or denominations disputed which day of the week actually was "the Sabbath").