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An overwhelming majority of countries support these steps.

ON April 2, the United States joined an overwhelming majority of countries at the United Nations in voting to adopt a treaty regulating the international trade in conventional weapons — a monumental achievement after seven years of diplomacy, lobbying and out-and-out arm-twisting.

The overwhelming majority of countries, however, accepts the principle of separation of roles between the scientists and the decision-makers (e.g., Marzocchi et al. 2012), with the former providing expert evaluations, and the latter making decisions based on their respective political and societal mandates.

In the late morning hours Saturday in Copenhagen, the overwhelming majority of countries adopted a new framework for addressing global warming.

"An overwhelming majority of countries commended China's significant progress in human rights protection," the news commentary stated, referring to council member countries Cuba, Russia and Venezuela that praised their leftist ally.

The U.S. parted ways with the overwhelming majority of countries in the region and around the world and promptly recognized the results of the controversial election and normalized relations with the newly "elected" regime of coup supporter Porfirio Lobo Sosa.

Meanwhile, the overwhelming majority of developing countries suffer a shortage of capital.

Regardless of the deals that Iran may give to them, the overwhelming majority of these countries and firms cannot sustain losing their access to the U.S., which is home to the world's largest economy.

The U.S. continues to stall the talks, refusing to budge from the Copenhagen Accord and sign on to the Kyoto Protocol, which the overwhelming majority of the countries here support.

So far polls show that Mr. Bush has the confidence and approval of an overwhelming majority of the country.

Kuwaiti officials say that an overwhelming majority of the country's approximately 650,000 domestic workers are treated well and are considered part of the families that employ them.