Sentence examples for committed a majority of from inspiring English sources

Sexual violence experts' belief that a small number of men committed a majority of rape on campus was largely based on a 2002 study by David Lisak, then at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, which found that 6.4percentt of college men had committed rape or attempted rape and two in three committed repeat rapes.

I will commit a majority of my time to funding our efforts for this upcoming cycle.

The fallback argument of New York police officials is that since black and Hispanic males supposedly commit a majority of the violent crimes, specifically murder in the city, and that the murder rate has plunged, the stops are the main reason for the plunge.

Political commentator Van Jones says, "the statistics don't lie" about the criminal justice system's bias against blacks; Houck counters that minorities commit a majority of crimes and "the statistics bear that out, and you don't want to face that...

Unfortunately, Bai et al. were correct in claiming that most medical geneticists perceive haplogroup U as an entity that does not include haplogroup K – but a mistake remains a mistake whether it is committed by a majority of researchers or not.

In this context, Kopf's words represented to me a much-needed public reminder that people with no documented history of mental illness commit a vast majority of violent crimes -- including mass shootings.

The initially pacifist Finnish labour movement had lost the Civil War, several of its military leaders committed suicide and a majority of the Reds were sent to prison camps.

In only one state (Massachusetts) did juveniles imprisoned for crimes committed against people comprise a majority of juvenile prisoners.

As part of the agreement Chrysler committed not to acquire a majority of Rootes voting shares without the approval of the UK government, which was keen not to see any further American ownership of the UK motor industry.

These base stations act as anchor clients for small scale energy projects by committing to the purchase of a majority of the power supply generated by a company like OMC.

Majority of MPs now support gay marriage A majority of MPs have committed themselves to supporting same-sex marriages and now outnumber opponents of gay weddings in the Commons by a margin of almost three to one.