Sentence examples for sheer majority from inspiring English sources

As I wrote in a review of iTunes plug in iLike, I find that the sheer majority of so called "indie bands" just aren't very good.

"In the Series B we did, Accel was the sheer majority of the round, but if you look at the coverage they focus on the names that are fun to talk about".

The sheer majority of people who launch businesses are in fact intrapreneurs – entrepreneurial types who can succeed in a larger organization by launching new products, business units etc., when they benefit from support in administration, sales, marketing and have the stability that comes with a regular paycheck.

This absolute majority rule prevents the introduction of splits favored by sheer fluctuations, but also aims to maximize the information extracted from the sample.

Table 3 shows that in sheer numbers the majority of children who fail and repeat a grade and the majority of children who drop out of high school come from middle and high income families (who account for 80percentt of all children) rather than families in poverty (the bottom 20%).

But he has kept a slim majority through sheer force of personality, intense backroom deal-making and the absence of coherent center-left opposition.

At this moment, the Senate doesn't look so bad, but that's only because the House of Representatives has recently managed to outdo it in sheer pigheadedness — defeating the majority party's own fiscal plan, refusing to allow a vote on Hurricane Sandy aid.

Even the controversial Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, always ready to invert the conventional standpoints of the majority into sheer impudence, has come to see more and more hidden advantages of European culture – especially when it comes to the question of how to treat refugees crossing the old continent.

In an illiberal democracy the sheer weight of the majority stifles dissent.

The current Republican majority is 22.The sheer uncompetitiveness of most House races takes one's breath away.

But the sheer size of Labour's majority on that summer's morning in 1997 meant that (reluctantly) the right had to put that goal to one side.