Sentence examples for considerable majorities from inspiring English sources

I was elected twice as mayor on considerable majorities against huge national political machines.

Sorrell said his share award – which is topped up by a £1.15m salary – was "voted through by shareholders by considerable majorities".

Republicans continue to hold considerable majorities in both state legislative chambers.

Given his own party has a considerable majority it is likely to be a quick rubberstamp from one of the countries keenest to keep Greece in the eurozone.

Ever since polls have been taken on the matter, a considerable majority of the US population has favored normalization of relations with Cuba, but that, too, is insignificant.

The white people who made up a considerable majority of the audience for Bob Marley's lauded Lyceum concert in 1975 were well-heeled London thirty-something hippies.

"There are times when a scan is the right thing to do, but in the considerable majority of cases, it is not".

Offer people the chance to win $150 on heads or lose $100 on tails, and a considerable majority will decline — even though it is a fantastic deal — because losing one's own money is so distasteful.

The trend reflects what William H. Frey, a University of Michigan demographer, calls a "racial generation gap," where whites are a considerable majority among the elderly and the working-age population and its children become more diverse.

A considerable majority of white Americans consistently vote Republican (between 56% and 61% did so in the 1952, 1980 and 1988 elections), and so Romney's capture of nearly two thirds of the white vote is hardly surprising.

The game then resumed its previous pattern, Leeds having the considerable majority of possession – 74% in the first-half, according to the official stats - and looking neat and purposeful until they got close to the Forest penalty area, where Chris Wood was getting little change from Mills and Jack Hobbs.