Throughout history and continuing into today, majority voices have controlled the bulk of the narrative across all media, from literature to film to journalism.
As women become more pervasive as leaders, one hopes that these dissenting voices will become majority voices.
As Martin Carcasson, director of Colorado State University's Center for Public Deliberation, recently pointed out, "the loudest voices are the ones that get heard, and typically the majority voices in the middle don't even show up because it becomes a shouting match".
He had heard their voices, at least their majority voice, and he was reflecting it".
"It's very difficult for the majority voice of this country to be heard in this community," Mr. Becker said.
Federal officials should be listening to this majority voice and not buckle under to special-interest pressure.
In China, a majority voiced approval for the performance of the banks in five of the areas, the exception being initial public offerings, where slightly less than half gave positive responses.
Last month four of the Bank of England's nine-member rate-setting committee, including Sir Mervyn King, voted for more QE, but the majority voiced scepticism over economic data that showed Britain falling further into recession.
It is a small minority who are determining policy in this city so the majority voice has to come out louder to determine travel and investment choices," says Choudhury, of the CSE.
"We have a State Capitol that is made up of people, for the most part, who are elected by Anglo communities, suburban and rural, and they are the majority voice in the Capitol, although they aren't reflective of the majority of the state of Texas," she said in a previous interview.
The government and other pro-agreement parties are dismayed bystanders, hoping for a swift resolution but knowing lengthy procedural wrangling is likelier.The rebels, in alliance with Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party and several smaller splinter groups, now represent the majority voice in unionism.
