Sentence examples for majority of lay from inspiring English sources

Appeal committees are set up by the admissions authorities, but are independent of them and include a majority of lay members.

Education appeal committees are set up by the LEA but are legally independent of them and include a majority of lay members.

Have the functions of the diocesan review boards with a majority of lay members been significantly reduced under the revised norms or left to be defined by the local bishop?

Although it contained only nebulous safeguards for conservatives, the latest proposal was backed by a thumping majority of lay delegates to the Synod: 152 in favour and just 45 against.

He said that the position had been appointed by a panel headed by Sir Hayden Philips, the former civil servant who helped reform the honours system "I was on the panel, but there were a majority of lay people," explained Moses.

In the following year, at the 'PubliForum' a consensus conference on transplantation medicine a majority of lay participants affirmed their support for xenotransplantation research (Griessler 2012: 66).

Large majorities of lay Catholics in our country oppose discrimination and support the inclusion of LGBT Catholics in our church.

The number of Iowa chickens lost exceeds 26m, the vast majority of which lay eggs for food use.

The majority of flies lay eggs, which hatch into tiny larvae after a few hours or several days.

Perhaps there are a good number who agree with the majority of Catholic lay people and believe that the moral decision should be left to the consciences of pregnant women.

They are close to each other for all the compounds; the majority of particles lay between 200 and 400 μm and between 800 and 1200 μm.