Sentence examples for majority respected from inspiring English sources
He coasted to victory in earlier elections by capitalising on his war victory over the Tamil Tigers, for which most of the Sinhalese majority respected him, brushing aside the evidence of wide-scale Tamil civilian casualties.
A study by the demographer Michèle Tribalat the same year found that 60percentt of French Muslim men and 70percentt of women were "not observant," though the great majority respected "cultural attachments" by abstaining from eating pork or drinking alcohol and by fasting during Ramadan.
If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority, respecting the best mode of conducting it, the majority, in order that something may be done, must conform to the views of the minority; and thus the sense of the smaller number will overrule that of the greater, and give a tone to the national proceedings.
What's lost is any appreciation of the fact that minorities owe majorities respect too.
Simeoni warned of tensions spilling out and being directed "on to the whole population of North African origin who live in Corsica, of whom the great majority respect our values".
If some of his officers were critical, the majority greatly respected their chief, and a number of "Lugard's men" went on to govern other territories in Africa.
"Even though the result is not what I wished for, now it is our duty to see that the will of the majority is respected," Gonzi said in a televised speech.
If the will of the majority is respected only to the extent that it conforms to Islamic law, the public's will can be thwarted by any non-elected "guardian" of religion, noted Sohrab Behdad, an Iranian-American who writes frequently on Islamic issues.
"Even though the result is not what I wished for, now it is our duty to see that the will of the majority is respected," he said in a televised speech.
Should I heed the majority or respect the wishes of those two employees?
Republicans lurk in the wings, but a majority still respects the king.
