Sentence examples for majority causing from inspiring English sources

Unhappiness over the changes in symbols has for the moment turned that minority into a majority, causing Mr. Trimble to delay the reckoning.

Mr. Berlusconi also helped create an illusion that Italy had a two-party system, with the help of a 2005 change to Italy's electoral law, which allowed a coalition that got less than half the popular vote to have a parliamentary majority, causing Italy's many smaller parties to lose clout.

That position may either be approved by Parliament, or it may reject the text by an absolute majority, causing it to fail, or it may adopt further amendments, also by an absolute majority.

Even as security has improved here, civilian casualties are on the rise — the vast majority caused by the Taliban.

The great majority caused at most minor pain or distress, alleviated wherever necessary with painkillers or anaesthetic; only 2% caused severe pain or distress.

I haven't drunk for 20 years I stopped after I joined the Colorado Fire Department, as a first responder dealing with road accidents – the vast majority caused by young drunken idiots.

According to UN figures, the number of deaths reached a record 3,031 in 2011 - the great majority caused by militants.

Of the 20 genes tested in this way, the majority caused a reduction in the ratio indicative of their contribution to the overgrowth.

Other neglected tropical diseases, including a large majority caused by helminth infections (such as hookworm, schistosomiasis, and lymphatic filariasis), are also endemic in this region (Hotez and Kamath 2009).

Approximately 2 million people were forcibly displaced by the government into overcrowded camps, resulting in 1,000 excess deaths per week in 2005, the majority caused by curable diseases and malnutrition (20, 21).

I was the guy at the Moratorium demonstrations of the late 1960s and early 1970s (actually covering them for Pacifica) hoping to make prudent withdrawal from Vietnam a majority cause, not the guy chanting "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh").