Sentence examples for majority of violations from inspiring English sources

The overwhelming majority of violations it found, says Olimpstroy, had to do with workplace safety; the five complaints related to wage payments were quickly resolved, it says.

He also said the majority of Upper Big Branch violations could have been prevented by hiring more miners or spending more time on safety tasks.

According to the audit, the majority of these violations were caught thanks to automated alerts, and not because someone at the N.S.A. raised his or her hand.

A vast majority of the violations fell into the "A" and "B" categories, with 969 in the "C" category, which the city describes as immediately hazardous, like a lack of heat or electricity or the presence of lead paint hazards.

Mr. DeLong, speaking to reporters on a conference call, also argued that the overwhelming majority of the violations were unintentional human or technical errors and that the existence of the report showed that the agency's efforts to detect and correct violations of the rules were robust.

Leonard Grunstein, a lawyer for Clipper Equity, Mr. Bistricer's group, said in an interview late yesterday that Mr. Bistricer had corrected "the overwhelming majority" of the violations; but, he said, Mr. Bistricer had not yet begun what many building owners say is the laborious and time-consuming process of having the buildings reinspected by the city and having the violations officially cleared.

"The responsibility for the vast majority of these violations should be laid at the door of the government," the investigators wrote, urging international action to contain a crisis they said threatened the peace and security of the surrounding region in Central Africa.

Perhaps more troublingly, the vast majority of the violations carried no formal repercussions.