Sentence examples for create majority from inspiring English sources

The state Legislature, encouraged by the Bush Administration to create majority black districts, had designed a Second District where the voting-age population was 52percentt black.

In utilizing §5 to require States to create majority minority districts whenever possible, the Department expanded its statutory authority beyond Congress' intent for §5: to insure that no voting procedure changes would be made that would lead to a retrogression in the position of racial minorities with respect to their effective exercise of the electoral franchise.

… Building on the highly successful model in Nevada, Lambe recently led the effort to create Majority PAC [now Senate Majority PAC], an unprecedented, independent effort to protect the Democratic Majority in the U.S. Senate in 2012.

In the past the court has allowed states to create majority-black districts in the hope of increasing African-American influence.

The practice became known as "racial gerrymandering". The court's solution required that states create majority-minority districts — districts in which the majority of the voting-age population belonged to a single minority.

Under pressure from the Bush administration to create majority-black districts in 1992, the General Assembly concocted a 165-mile-long district that connected black population centers in Charlotte, Greensboro and Durham with a tether that was often no wider than Interstate 85.

He also pointed out a strategic advantage of Republicans: Democrats are usually up front about their intention to create majority-minority districts, so their motives are not in doubt, whereas Republicans have generally characterised their own map-carving as being about something else and can more easily muddy the legal waters.

The Supreme Court's decision on the Voting Rights Act on Tuesday — which struck down one provision of the law outright, neutered another and set a precedent that could eventually threaten the rest of the legislation — may reduce the pressure on states to create majority-minority districts when they engage in Congressional redistricting after each decennial census.

The brothers had spent or raised hundreds of millions of dollars to create majorities in their image.

With a limited number of enfranchised voters throughout the nation (120,000 in a population of 7 million), well-spent cash could easily capture elections and create majorities in Parliament consisting of the oligarchs' loyal supporters.

We argued that by the end of the first decade of the century, a progressive-centrist coalition based on professionals, women, minorities and "close to an even split" of the white working class would create majorities for Democrats.