Sentence examples for ordinary majority from inspiring English sources

Under present plans, the interim constitution and the Scotland Act would be amendable by an ordinary majority in parliament.

It's quite easy to talk about smashing the state, but doing it when you're face to face with the "ordinary" silent majority is another thing altogether.

The food these two sent out ranged from extraordinary to ordinary, with the majority of dishes earning high praise.

Alf Olsen, of the populist Coast Party, calls their demand a "provocation" to Finnmark's ordinary Norwegians, a majority settled there "for countless generations".

Thursday night's attack was the second on Sufis, and will enrage ordinary Pakistanis, the majority of whom identify with that tradition of Islam.

As the parties haggled, chiefly over whether to guarantee a dominant role for the country's long-repressed Shiite Muslim majority, ordinary Iraqis were experiencing their own political awakening.

The vast majority of ordinary folk believe in the other sort of God.

This would allow him to claim the move is progressive and that the majority of ordinary voters would gain.

For the vast majority of ordinary Italians, however, their daily dealings with the state brought frustration and anger.

Wouldn't it just alienate the majority of ordinary people who are increasingly fearful of all the instability?

A few of the dishes are ordinary, but the vast majority are of sit-up-and-take-notice quality.