Last June, the church played a key role in a referendum that sought to overturn parts of a restrictive law on in vitro fertilisation, which had been passed with the help of a cross-party majority of Catholic parliamentarians.To be valid, referendums in Italy need to attract the votes of more than half the electorate.
If such a process can be completed for a large enough group of people, and in a swift enough fashion, it would help deter a majority of refugees from traipsing through Europe in the current chaotic way.
But last November, teachers' unions did help persuade a majority of Ohio voters to repeal a similar law.
Goldman also has three new directors and has shrunk its board to 11 members from 12. Citigroup and Bank of America, which together received over $90 billion in federal help, have a majority of new directors.
A classified briefing from U.S. intelligence officials helped persuade a majority of members of a government advisory board that the benefits of publishing two controversial H5N1 avian influenza studies outweighed the risks, according to testimony presented yesterday at a U.S. Senate hearing.
On Monday, a consortium of banks lent Vedanta Resources $6.5 billion to help finance its purchase of a majority stake in Cairn India.
It helps that a majority of this offense operates out of the shotgun; that creates spacing that naturally takes some of the sting off Gregg Williams's aggressive six-man blitzes.
It helped that a majority of the public, and even many of its representatives in Congress, had expressed strong opposition to entering into a civil war without a plausibly positive outcome.
Hopefully, the Yahoo-Google alliance will spread to other webmail providers, allowing for a network of popular email services to pass encrypted messages between themselves, helping keep a majority of users more secure in their digital papers.
That said, when it comes to supporting specific government policies that would help the unemployed, a majority of all respondents supported almost every idea the researchers asked about.
