Sentence examples for majority unanimously from inspiring English sources

It might even herald a repeat of the events of 2007, when in the course of committee proceedings in parliament the Flemish majority unanimously voted to split the bilingual Brussels-Hal-Vilvorde district.

Just a day after a state oversight board approved a final budget for financially beleaguered Nassau County, the County Legislature's Democratic majority yesterday unanimously designated Judith A. Jacobs as its leader for a second term.

A further important amendment here is that the Committee on Development and Cooperation feels that the Council should decide by a qualified majority rather than unanimously, and that Parliament should also have to give its assent.

The candidate elected by the majority was regarded as unanimously elected and entitled to exercise his royal rights immediately.

And the expansion of the Union to take in new members will at the same time require more decisions to be made by some kind of majority vote rather than unanimously, as most often in the past.

The jury in the trial - which began on the day after the US launched the first attacks on Afghanistan and ended the day before the surrender of Kandahar - found them guilty by 10 to one majorities of hijack and unanimously of false imprisonment of passengers and crew and possessing weapons.

The 11-person jury returned the verdicts, two by a majority of 10-1 and one unanimously.

Bill Frist Senate majority leader When Senate Republicans unanimously chose Bill Frist of Tennessee as their leader in December 2002, Dr. Frist, a former heart surgeon from Nashville, promised to "heal the wounds of division" in the party.

A jury of seven women and five men took just over 11 hours to find Sardar guilty of murder, by a majority of 11-1, and guilty unanimously of conspiracy to murder.

That move raised the prospect of a shutdown, since without Republican votes, Senate Democrats, who have a 32-to-30 32-to-30 32-to-30hamajorityst act unaninously thepass legislation.

The plans were backed by a majority on the board but not unanimously, with some of those representing the so-called "national game" believed to be against.