Sentence examples for gives majority from inspiring English sources
The new law, which nearly doubles royalty payments and gives majority control of projects to the government, may slow oil industry expansion plans and could eventually lead foreign multinationals to look for projects in other countries, analysts said.
lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) The judge has given majority direction to the jury on further charges faced by Coulson and by the former royal editor Clive Goodman.
Last month shareholders at Verizon and Blockbuster became the first in America to give majority backing to resolutions calling for an advisory shareholder vote on executive pay.
Shareholders also gave majority support to 70 proposals that make it easier to get rid of directors, Rockville-based ISS said.
Shareholders at four companies -- J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Lucent Technologies Inc., Novellus Systems Inc. and Pulte Homes Inc. -- gave majority support to proposals that tied executive pay more closely to corporate performance.
have been those in which it stepped in to defend individual rights in political climates in which majority rule at best ignored those rights, and at worst gave majority prejudice the force of law.
The second part of the solution lay in using staggered periodic elections to make the decisions of any given majority subject to the concurrence of other majorities distributed over time.
The overall result is that the current majority position arguing there is little or no group selection in the evolution of human sociality is given minority coverage, and the minority position on group selection is given majority coverage.
The first would give majority control of the Bank to the Government of Bangladesh instead of allowing it to remain governed by its borrowers.
ii) Izmir is the most important and populated city among the 13 cities that did not give majority support to the political party in power.
So the minority president from the majority party has given the majority party permission to rule by majority vote.
