Sentence examples for majority and only from inspiring English sources

His pitch is that neither of the two main parties can win a majority and only a vote for the Liberal Democrats will ensure a middle way between extremes and deliver sensible, rigorous, stable government.

Everton were disappointing for the majority and only troubled goalkeeper Fraser Forster in the last few seconds when Lukaku shot straight at him.

In a typical environmental sample, represented by a gas or liquid chromatogramme, unknowns are still the majority and only joint efforts of the scientific community will help to change this situation.

France, Japan and The Netherlands are the only three countries on the list where iOS has a clear majority, and only one country (Thailand) shows a pretty much even split between the two platforms.

On 8 October 2014 it was announced that the European Commission has approved the project, with an overwhelming majority and only four commissioners voting against the decision.

Sunderland's struggle to blend the 13 summer signings – 12 foreign, the majority youthful and only five with previous Premier League experience – are proof that the money Moyes is being urged to spend can bring its difficulties.

Despite the safe seat, she did not win the expected vast majority and was only elected on the second round.

But Bown says his polling challenges the findings of polling by Lord Ashcroft, the former Conservative deputy chairman, suggesting Ukip is weakening Tory chances of an overall majority, and is only likely to put Ed Miliband into Number 10.

But the deputy foreign minister on Tuesday concluded by asking what would happen "when one morning suddenly you find your state bound by the policy of the majority and the only way out is to leave".

Current polling suggests a similar result is likely next time around, with the Tories extremely hard-pressed to build a majority and Labour only a bit likelier.A steely optimism pervades the Lib Dems, most obviously among Mr Clegg and his fellow centrists.

Only a small proportion of both men and women had completed primary level education (the majority being men) and only a small proportion had a higher income per month, the majority being men (Table  1).