Sentence examples for majority of commonwealth from inspiring English sources

Once again there was a schism between Thatcher and the majority of Commonwealth nations over sanctions on South Africa.

Homosexuality, as gay rights campaigners have stressed in the leadup to the Games, is criminalised in a majority of Commonwealth countries.

In the 1998 referendum on Puerto Rican statehood organized by pro-statehood governor Pedro Rosselló, she led the pro-commonwealth campaign; her efforts were rewarded when the majority of votes were cast in favour of commonwealth status.

Even though the overwhelming majority of offshore marine reserves are inaccessible to divers, Nicholls' association is spearheading the battle to ensure that the review of commonwealth marine reserves does not result in a windback of protected areas.

Also winner of Commonwealth Games gold.

There are several universities in the state, financed by the Commonwealth or by some combination of Commonwealth, state, and private funding.

Many of the exports of Commonwealth countries go to other member countries.

At the same time as the PHRN and CDL were developing, a number of Commonwealth government agencies came together to establish a set of guiding principles for data integration involving Commonwealth data [ 21].

They will require the will and support of Commonwealth and State governments and other stakeholder groups including general practitioners.

But the proposal also recognizes that a majority of Puerto Ricans aren't happy with their current commonwealth status.

They said they had received 13 referrals relating to alleged unauthorised disclosures by commonwealth officials, but in the "overwhelming majority" of those cases there was no need to access journalists' metadata.