Sentence examples for offer a majority from inspiring English sources

Some departments now offer a majority of their courses on such an abbreviated weekly schedule.

Aquarium officials were able to avoid catastrophe and have now rebuilt enough to offer a majority of the museum's attractions to the public this Saturday.

Acknowledging that the SNP's success would complicate Miliband's plans for government, he said: "Now we have a situation where Labour could win literally scores of seats in England and Wales and see themselves unable to offer a majority Labour government because of what's happened in just one part of the United Kingdom".

He added: "We all went through the horror of the 1983 election when Labour was massacred in the polls, but people were still arguing about policy and values and now we have a situation where Labour could win literally scores of seats in England and Wales and see themselves unable to offer a majority Labour government because of what's happened in just one part of the United Kingdom".

After a president is elected, the convention is that they are offered a majority in parliament to implement their programme.

And foreign investors are being offered a majority stake in a proposed $2.4 billion, 2,500-mile 2,500-miles pipelinatural China's far western Xinjiangasutonomous Region to the east coast, the sort of strategic pipelinethat Beijing would never have allowed fromigners into before.

Mr Min's earlier offer for a majority stake was rebuffed by Dick Fuld, Lehman's boss, who wanted a premium.

Of course, shareholder activists make a strong case that a staggered board may discourage an unsolicited offer that a majority of shareholders would like to accept.

Nevertheless, in April it appeared that the starting gun had been fired: The giant French energy group Total made a landmark $1.4 billion offer for a majority in the U.S. company SunPower; and the Swiss solar equipment maker Meyer Burger bid €356 million, or $504 million, for a German rival, Roth & Rau.

His vision was the one on offer — but a majority of the country didn't vote for the destruction of blue-collar America in 1980, or the creation of a new plutocracy, or the rigging of legislation in favor of organized money.

In October of that year, with salmon prices high, Fjord submitted an offer for a majority stake in Cermaq to the Norwegian Government, which was preparing it for a public listing.