That majority rests on the weak reed of gerrymandering, however, and on the high concentration of Democratic voters in urban areas.
Mr Buchanan's book performs the useful service of describing a populist triumph from the inside, showing how the wooing of what he first called the "silent majority" rested on coded appeals to resentment and division.
In many ways the emergence of a Democratic majority rests on whether John McCain gets away with becoming a "Change Republican".
Sunni Muslims make up the large majority; the rest are an imponderably complicated mixture of Palestinian refugees, Druze and Bedouin tribesmen, Kurds, Armenians, Circassians, Turkomen, and a few dozen remaining Jews.
If its themes didn't resonate with you, he knew a majority would rest their laurels on the notion of "Boy, Kendrick Lamar sure can rap, can't he?" You may not completely understand the picture he's painting, but the talent is undeniable and already proven.
— Of the moths on lateral branches, the majority (89%) rest on the lower half of the branch.
Only licensed nursing personnel are employed in Norwegian hospitals, RNs with 3 years of college education being in the majority; the rest are licensed practical nurses with vocational qualifications.
The large majority of resting-state fMRI studies published have typically employed baseline conditions where the subjects are either instructed to rest with their eyes closed or told to fixate their vision on a centrally positioned cross-hair on a blank screen.
In the majority of resting control cells, the distribution of ICAM-3 (Figure 4A) and phospho-ERMs (Figure 4B) was not polarized, whereas following CXCL12 stimulation, ICAM-3 and phospho-ERMs were predominantly localized in the uropod (Figure 4A, B).
