Sentence examples for majority achieved from inspiring English sources

We believe that something greater than a bare majority achieved through voting is almost always more desirable than majority rule.

In some constituencies, the number of spoilt papers, thought to stem from confusion among voters, was higher than the majority achieved by the winning candidate.

He saw it as a liberal society in which all inhabitants would have equal rights, but with a Jewish majority achieved by immigration.

Whatever else the court's 5-to-4 majority achieved, the result removed the breathlessly awaited case of Ricci v. DeStefano as a substantial issue in the imminent Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

Not because of capacity or security, but because the return of Palestinians would undermine a myth of uninterrupted Jewish presence in Palestine and, more importantly, a Jewish demographic majority achieved through ethnic cleansing and maintained through racist bureaucracy.

But at the 2006 election, predicts Mr Durão Barroso, his Social Democratic Party will win "the biggest parliamentary majority achieved by a Portuguese government since democracy was restored 30 years ago".

Rather, a minority of patients achieve very large reductions in pain (responders), while the majority achieve little (nonresponders).

With due respect, the majority achieves that result by misreading the Colorado River Compact, the Project Act, and by misreading the legislative history leading up to the California Limitation Act.

The raucous Republican freshmen, aided by many of the more senior conservative members, have helped the House majority achieve goals that would have seemed impossible in previous divided governments.

The majority achieves this simply by changing labels: Punitive damages are now called "consequential" damages, and a bad faith failure to pay a claim is called a "breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing". I think that Rocanova and NYU were correctly decided, and that the majority makes a mistake in largely nullifying their holdings.

Consequently, a small minority of games achieve very high downloads, whilst the vast majority achieve very small download figures".