Sentence examples for majority sentiment from inspiring English sources

They act as if they are immune from majority sentiment.

"They knew what was majority sentiment and what wasn't".

One council member, Rebecca Dresser, expressed the majority sentiment during a council session in late 2002.

But for many militant clerics, majority sentiment, pragmatism and national interest are beside the point.

Currently, majority sentiment in Congress is to hope for the best and pass the baton to the grandchildren.

Still, these states with strong initiative powers have populist traditions, and lawmakers are loath to mess with the majority sentiment, however contradictory that can seem.

Such increased attacks on minorities, including notably, on Hindus, also show that Muslim majority sentiments are being deployed as a pretext for rivalries within the Awami League.

But if you consider the transformation of Yugoslavia from vacation spot to killing field in two short years after 1989, it's easier to imagine how a few demagogues, with their militant supporters, could use minority passions in this country to neutralize majority sentiments.

Yet despite the majority's sentiment, a tiny and until recently, almost faceless minority somehow prevailed.

Religious persecution has laced throughout American history from its beginnings — Salem, Quakers, Anglicans, Baptists, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews, Catholics and so on, depending on the era and majority social sentiment.

I had written a piece in the Guardian arguing in favour of Australia's return to Fraser's bravest and most significant domestic policy as prime minister: a bipartisan agreement negotiated with the Labor party – against majority public sentiment of the time – to resettle hundreds of thousands of refugees within Australia.