Sentence examples for remained a majority from inspiring English sources

After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, the renamed Aeroflot Russian International Airlines in 1992 became the state-owned airline of the new Russian government, which remained a majority shareholder into the 21st century.

The Christian community grew throughout the Byzantine period, although Jews remained a majority.

Where authors were uncertain and discrepancies remained, a majority decision between the authors determined if the trial met inclusion criteria (papers excluded at sift phase three can be seen in Additional file 2).

Other studies describe whites on college campuses becoming an apprehensive "psychological minority," even as they remain a majority.

Doing so will ensure that the conservative bloc on the court is likely to remain a majority for a generation to come.

Mr. Haji-Ioannou said he intended to remain a majority shareholder but might sell some stock occasionally to finance new ventures.

The BNP manifesto therefore claims being British "is to belong to a special chain of unique people who have the natural law right to remain a majority in their ancestral homeland".

And Spain's recent general election, held three days after the Brexit referendum, suggests that, despite high unemployment, austerity, and painful structural reforms, moderate, pro-European forces remain a majority.

In the early hours of Friday it was revealed that Hartlepool residents had cast 32,071 ballots in favour of leaving the EU while only 14,029 voted to remain, a majority of 69.6% to 30.4%.

John R. McKernan, the former Republican governor of Maine and the husband of Senator Snowe, said: "We need people like Olympia and Jim in our party in order for us to remain a majority party.

While over all, whites will remain a majority for some time, the fact that a younger generation is being born in which minorities are the majority has broad implications for the country's economy, its political life and its identity.