Sentence examples for majority lie from inspiring English sources

Of the globular clusters within our Milky Way, the majority are found in the vicinity of the galactic core, and the large majority lie on the side of the celestial sky centered on the core.

Although white dwarfs are known with estimated masses as low as 0.17 and as high as 1.33, the mass distribution is strongly peaked at 0.6, and the majority lie between 0.5 to 0.7.

The second rationale of the majority lies in two parts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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