Sentence examples for majority to pick from inspiring English sources

This was a nation where prejudice and discrimination were still tolerated, offering as an example, California, where the threat of Proposition 8 offered reaffirmation that we as a nation allowed the majority to pick and choose who was worthy of equality.

It's normal for the majority party to pick the bulk of a hearing's panelists.

The Constitution, worked out in talks between backers and opponents of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, calls for a new 90-member Parliament and for the majority party to pick the prime minister.

I want the majority of Americans to pick our leader.

Islamists make up about 75 percent of the newly elected Parliament charged with naming the assembly, and so the majority initially sought to pick an Islamist-dominated constitutional assembly, leading to a boycott by other parties.

A special session ended in Austin yesterday with Democrats holding fast in their out-of-state exile against a brazen attempt by the House majority leader, Tom DeLay, to pick up six seats by gerrymandering incumbent Democrats out of power.

To win a majority, Republicans need to pick up a net of 39 seats; to reach that threshold they will probably have to win at least 44 seats now held by Democrats to offset a handful of projected Democratic victories in Republican-held districts.

To secure a majority the Republicans need to pick up six seats: 33 Senate seats are up for election in the normal way.

A8 NATIONAL A16-27 DemoCling Cling to Hope For a Senate Majority Democrats are likely to pick up at least a seat or two in the Senate in next month's elections and have an outside chance of winning a narrow majority, handicappers say.

In the vast majority of cases, trying to pick up a straight man involves getting someone to do something they don't really enjoy.

Guess who gets to pick a majority of its new members.