Sentence examples for get a plurality from inspiring English sources

You get a plurality of views, but what emerges is a widespread sense of people, and not just the young, seeking revenge on an unjust society.

The German election is on Sunday, and although, under the country's complex, quasi-proportional-representation parliamentary system, her party, the Christian Democratic Union (and its Bavarian partner, the Christian Social Union), is only expected to get a plurality of the seats in the Bundestag, no one else is likely to be able to form a coalition.

So there is a plurality of numbers 1 (so that we can add 1 and 1 to get 2, etc).. Then the One is not the number 1; the latter comes about when you get a plurality of units, any of which counts as a 1, any couple of which counts as a 2, and so on.

When I asked friends who've put in their 10,000 hours of intense pop music listening to pick a favorite melody from the past 50 years, there was no doubt that Lennon-McCartney -- who wrote their last song together more than four decades ago -- would get a plurality of nods.

The other campaign may be more difficult: getting a plurality of voters to write in her name on the ballot.

If the recall vote fails, the second vote is meaningless; but if it succeeds, whoever gets a plurality becomes governor.

Romney got a plurality of the conversative vote in NH, and seems on his way to get it in SC, mostly on grounds of his electability.

And Mr. Romney gets a plurality among high-income caucus goers, with over a third of those making $100,000 or more saying they support him.

And Mr. Romney gets a plurality among high-income caucusgoers, with over a third of those making $100,000 or more saying they support him.

"They had a strategy, which was to basically play one conservative Republican off against another, and they could split up the vote enough that he could win by getting a plurality," Mr. Pullen said.

The data in the chart above refer to which country got a plurality of the votes for each question, but in the case of the "least compassionate" question, the Germans got a clear majority from Greek survey respondents (57 percent of whom named Germany as least compassionate).