Sentence examples for majority of elders from inspiring English sources

The BBC's Karen Allen, in Kabul, says the vast majority of elders wanted the deal signed within a month.

At that time, Chinese institutional care was generally only provided for elders with 'three nos' with no children, no income and no relatives which meant that the vast majority of elders could only rely on their children for care (Zhan et al. 2008).

The majority of elders are outside the social safety net, and they face economic, health, and emotional insecurity and inequity that pose a challenge to an already overburdened societal system (3).

In both communities, the majority of chiefs, elders, women, pastoralists, youth and raiders stated that the conflict with the other group has escalated in recent years.

"Younger Americans are also unique in that they don't rely on one platform in the way that the majority of their elders rely on TV," Pew researcher Elisa Shearer writes.

But the majority of the elders in long marriages found that sexuality can remain interesting and fulfilling into the ninth and tenth decades of life.

The majority of readers, he says, are boys ("in sub-Saharan Africa the holder of the device is often the elder brother"), but girls read far more avidly, he says.

As I walked in to the Town Hall yesterday to observe the daytime festivities, I was overcome with elation at the site of the majority of the Mayan Elder contingent of the community.

Only about a hundred and seventy indigenous languages are still spoken, the majority by a dwindling number of elders like Marie Wilcox, of the Wukchumni, who is eighty-one, and who spent her youth doing farmwork south of Fresno.

The majority of women, TBAs and elders in the study had less than a secondary school education, and only two respondents had some post secondary school education, both of whom were from villages closest to the Macha Hospital.

The majority of participants said that the elders in their families expressed their preference for being cared for at home in various ways rather than in institutions.