Sentence examples for issue a majority from inspiring English sources

The judges today did not issue a majority opinion, just an order upholding the January decision.

Reflecting the importance of the issue, a majority (58%) agree that it's important to build lots of new houses to keep pace with growing demand.

The Weprin campaign said it believed that despite the occasional criticism the assemblyman had received on the issue, a majority of voters in the Brooklyn and Queens district were in favor of allowing gay couples to wed.

Last April, Pew Research Centre found that "for the first time in more than four decades of polling on the issue, a majority of Americans [favour] legalising the use of marijuana".

He is in a surprisingly tight race with Alison Lundergran Grimes, Kentucky's Secretary of State, who has been resolutely reminding voters of his record on the minimum-wage issue — a majority of Kentuckians favor raising it.

The Court has not ruled on whether the principle applies to white defendants, although in a ruling last month on another aspect of the peremptory challenge issue a majority of the Justices indicated that the Batson ruling should be extended.

The Scarsdale Town and Village Civic Club's Education Forum issued a majority report last year objecting to plans to rebuild the wing, and instead advocating repairs.

In elections over the weekend, where independence was one of the most discussed campaign issues, a majority of offices were won by parties that support more Catalan independence, in one form or another.

The religious right isn't having a good year: the new Republican National Committee roadmap almost entirely excludes religious issues, a majority of young conservatives support same-sex marriage, and hard-line libertarians are dominating the conservative agenda with small government policies.

On March 27 , 2008 the three-judge panel issued a majority 2 1 opinion upholding Yohn's 2001 opinion but rejecting the bias and Batson claims, with Judge Ambro dissenting on the Batson issue.

In regard to safety issues, a majority of the respondents felt safe or quite safe in their neighbourhood and fewer than 3% had felt personally threatened within the last year.