Sentence examples for majority were happy from inspiring English sources
During a long and bitter battle most people left for new housing – with the mayor of Rio, Eduardo Paes, claiming the majority were happy to do so – but a rump of around 20 remained long enough to be granted permission to stay.
For the truth is, of course, the exact opposite of what Dr. Adenauer asserted it to be when he said that only "a relatively small percentage" of Germans had been Nazis, and that "a great majority were happy to help their Jewish fellow-citizens when they could".
Of all the men I approached, the majority were happy to talk – albeit briefly – and those who weren't apologised politely, usually blaming a lack of time or the need to be somewhere else.
"Every school has got to make its own decision, but the vast majority are happy to have the additional piece".
I think you have to respect the other players who have played before". Asked about the mood in the squad after the suggestion on Sunday of a challenge to his authority, Capello said: "Probably one or two are not happy but the majority are happy.
GDP growth: 4.3% GDP per head: $56,940 (PPP: $55,060) Inflation: 2.2% Budget balance (% GDP): 2.3 Population: 7.9mThe majority are happy to leave politics to the royal families of the seven emirates, although a less compliant minority is discouraged by a range of repressive methods.
Remarkably large numbers of people were eager to experience the same stories twice (or more), and if some may have had a preference for Potter in prose over Potter in pictures or vice versa, it seems safe to conclude that the majority was happy to have both.
But whenever I do search for disgruntled manufacturers or exporters unhappy about a planned EU directive standardising their product, I often find that the majority are happy that there are Europe-wide rules, so they don't have to have legal teams and paperwork to meet 27 different national standards.
While manufacturing workers suffer competition from cheap foreign labor, everyone else enjoys cheap foreign manufactured goods, so a majority is happy.
The Joint Committee on Medical Genetics (RCP, RCPath, BSHG 2011) reports the "feelings of altruism and solidarity towards family members" that patients experience and notes that the majority are happy for their information to be shared.
White majorities were happy to be rid of slavery, but at least some whites were pleased by the prospect of getting rid of blacks.
