Sentence examples for majority lay from inspiring English sources

With a solid base in the west, Mr Harper quickly concluded that his best hope of turning his current parliamentary minority into a majority lay in winning more seats in Quebec.

Private polling had persuaded the Tory campaign director Lynton Crosby that Cameron's most likely route to a majority lay in gobbling up Lib Dem-held seats in the south-west.

Like for the upper quartile, the majority lay closer together meaning between 0.5 and 1 mm.

For the analyses, we only studied saccades with an amplitude of 8° or less (the vast majority lay in the region 0.5° 3° amplitude), and saccades that remained within a region measuring 6° across by 12° high.

Forested areas are unevenly distributed, with the majority lying to the east of a line from Bordeaux to the Luxembourg border.

The sympathy of the Hutu majority lies firmly with the rebels, so there is little chance that the Tutsi-led army will ever destroy them.

Though Rove's promised "permanent Republican majority" lies in humiliating ruins, his and Bush's one secure legacy will be their demagogic exploitation of homophobia.

Mostly it appears in iron-carbon alloys such as steels, which contain between 0.003 and about 2 percent carbon (the majority lying in the range of 0.01 to 1.2 percent), and cast irons with 2 to 4 percent carbon.

(It's pointing out that the majority lies with Ineos, and therefore the decision on its future lies there too).

Only a small portion of the Disi aquifer lies beneath Jordan, while the majority lies beneath Saudi Arabia.

The vicus associated with Mamucium surrounded the site on the west, north, and east sides, with the majority lying to the north.