Sentence examples for old majority from inspiring English sources

"This is a new political framework, the old majority cannot pretend to be what it stopped being," he said.

"It's no secret the Senate's old majority was the primary barrier to reforming our drug laws," he said.

This new minority mass poverty, so much more isolated and hopeless than the old majority poverty, shows signs of becoming chronic.

Tomorrow came more quickly for gay rights than anyone could have imagined, but the controversies at World Vision and Mozilla suggest that neither the old majority nor the new one has discerned how to confront the fierceness of that urgency.

Not because they'll lose the Presidency by the same huge margin as those Democrats — they might well win — but because they've reached the same stage of petrified theology, capture by their extremes, and self-isolation from their old majority.

What has now happened is that a once controversial view — the view of 20th-century art as essentially multifaceted and paradoxical, as seismographically related to unfolding events — has at last overtaken the old majority view, the orthodoxy that saw modern art as focused on a single-minded search for purity.

Republican senators and county chairmen openly voiced fears that his weakness at the top of the ticket could cost the party its decade-old majority in both houses of the Legislature this November.

As he told me, explaining his refusal of my repeated requests to interview him, he admires the way that Kirk Kerkorian, the ninety-one-year-old majority shareholder of Nevada's largest gaming company, MGM Mirage, conducts himself — "and Kirk never talks to the press".

The average age of study patients was 36 years old; the majority of patients in the study were receiving treatment prophylactically (n = 708; 57.7%) (Table 2).

From five years old, the majority of children (>90%) had natural immunity against HAV.

Participants were on average 45.7 (SD = 9.2) years old, the majority were female (84.5 %) and obese (65.1 %).