Sentence examples for for a substantial majority from inspiring English sources

Women entrepreneurs account for a substantial majority of small-scale entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (Belwal et al. 2012).

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond said the independence referendum was "a once in a generation opportunity" and he was aiming for "a substantial majority".

Low imperfection scores account for a substantial majority of windows for all four sets and the absolute differences between the frequencies at the first few imperfection scores are small.

For the purposes of this study, we defined consensus as a "general agreement of a substantial majority" (>75%) [ 13].

If it should fail in the Senate, it will be not because of the backlash or because of Governor Wallace but because the rules under which the Senate operates make it difficult for even a substantial majority to prevail.

Yet the Turkish-Cypriots still voted for it by a substantial majority for the sake of peace in the island.

According to an exit poll for the state, a substantial majority of voters across all parties, except the AfD, prefers an open and tolerant society to a traditional one.

But his energies went mainly into leading a cross-party pro-European movement that secured a substantial majority for staying in the Common Market in the 1975 referendum.

Not only did the voters refuse to endorse the Conservative policy on spending cuts; they voted, by a substantial majority, for the diametrically different policy then favoured by the Liberal Democrats as well as by Labour.

If Obama puts his hand to a Bible in January, he may well look out on the highest number of Democratic senators and congressmen since Jimmy Carter took office in 1976 — a substantial majority for a president who has promised a slate of expansive new programs.

Although the DSM-IV nosology excludes youth meeting inhalant dependence criteria from eligibility for an inhalant abuse diagnosis, a substantial majority (n = 63, 79.7%) of youth meeting inhalant dependence diagnoses would also have received an inhalant abuse diagnosis if dual IUD diagnoses were permitted by DSM-IV.