I could not understand the complacency of the voters, their lack of self-interest, their indifference to manipulation of public money, and especially the overwhelming pluralities they gave the machine at every election.
He otherwise relied heavily on votes from Sri Lanka's frustrated minority communities, winning overwhelming pluralities in Muslim and Tamil regions of the country.
Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.
However, goal-orientation is a widely shared plot attribute of many texts and genres and it is also the case that the overwhelming majority of films involve a plurality of interacting characters.
Democrats back the agreement by an overwhelming majority of five to one, but even a plurality of Republican voters support the Iran nuclear deal.
Statistics compiled by the service organization Opera America clearly reveal that despite the plurality of musical and dramatic styles in opera today, "American verismo" continues its overwhelming dominance in the country's mainstream opera houses.
These contradictions were most glaring in Britain in the run up to the Iraq war, when London saw the biggest demonstration in its history, in which my guess is that the overwhelming majority who attended that march voted for the government they were demonstrating against, and at least a plurality voted for them again.
To arrive at balanced public policy, America needs a plurality of voices in the public dialogue: foreign relations, business, religion - and science, and the overwhelming majority of likely voters want the candidates to engage on the topics of healthcare, climate change, energy, education, and innovation and the economy.
Unlike in August when the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) failed to distribute enough accreditation passes to every party and allegations of favoritism were heard throughout the day, on Sunday, monitors from a plurality of parties were present and appeared to outnumber voters at many centers in the capital, occasionally overwhelming poll workers.
