Sentence examples for remains a majority from inspiring English sources

Riga became (and remains) a majority Russophone city.

As the Obama administration continues its campaign to convince millions of uninsured Americans that they will benefit from the law, the poll shows that skepticism remains: a majority of Americans disapprove of the law, half say they find the law confusing, and nearly half expect it to hurt the economy over the long run.

Ezz was forced to step down from his post as chairman of Ezz Steel, one of the largest steel manufacturers in the Middle East, following his imprisonment, but his holding company Ezz Group remains a majority shareholder in the company.

Stroke is outside the focus of the majority, and remains a major disease that seriously threatens the health of the people living at high altitudes.

However, this remains a major challenge, as the majority of AASs detected in cancer genomes do not contribute to carcinogenesis; rather, these 'passenger mutations' are a consequence of tumorigenesis rather than a cause (Greenman et al., 2007).

In spite of this however, there remains a progressive majority among the British electorate, and I believe that we can emerge stronger than ever against a Tory government elected largely out of fear, and which faces huge challenges holding itself together with a wafer-thin majority.

Cheshire East remains a Conservative majority, with the party gaining a further two seats.

Nevertheless, Kosovo remains a Muslim-majority state, and since the end of the main conflict in 1999, the country has been targeted by extremist Muslim preachers and flooded with fundamentalist literature.

But at present there remains an uneasy majority in favour of spending Ireland's scarce resources in budgetary support and school hours on keeping Irish in its unique place: a national language learned and cherished even as it is barely spoken.

Palestinians and their advocates say they can build only illegally because Israel almost never grants them legal permits, to keep their numbers down and make sure there remains a strong Jewish majority in Jerusalem.

Now the question to be solved is whether the committee's vote shall prevail or whether, despite the veto of the committee, there remains a two-thirds majority of Senators favoring conventions, which, it is believed here, hold a greater promise for the world's peace than any other arbitration treaties ever negotiated between first-class Powers.