Sentence examples for majority popular from inspiring English sources

But the Supreme Court refused to expand its decision to include either provision, and neither in the mid-1970's nor later did either effort win majority popular support.

Supporters of smoking bans have "always been heartened by the results of public opinion polls" [advocate] that show majority popular support for bans, and expressed frustration that these appeared to have little impact on politicians.

-- overwhelming super-majority popular support for the public health insurance option.

Eighteen presidential elections have been decided in favor of a candidate who did not achieve a majority of popular votes, and four presidents (John Quincy Adams, Hayes, Benjamin Harrison and George W. Bush) have won despite losing the popular vote.

The majority of popular legends concern the leading personalities of Islam.

But if immigrants are the majority, the popular literature on Buddhism is written by converts.

Today, publishers figure that men buy the great majority of popular history books; most fiction buyers are women.

"The problem is that the vast majority of popular shoes are made for the so-called average person," he said.

"Yes, we have protesters on the streets, but according to the polls, the big majority of popular opinion reject the idea of early elections," he said.

In an era when the majority of popular artists are in the brand-building business, Donald Glover is refreshingly hard to pin down.

Team names, player names and kits used in game will be similar to the majority of popular titles on the market and fully editable".