A town in Shelby County had recently been the subject of a federal objection when, in 2008, it drew up a City Council redistricting plan that eliminated the city's sole majority-black district, which had elected black councilmen for 18 years.
As a secular union, it needs its sole Muslim-majority state, and fears that if Kashmir is granted independence or joins Pakistan, other states may want to leave the union as well.Many Kashmiris would favour neither Pakistan nor India, but independence.
As the sole Catholic-majority in Asia until the newly-established East Timor joined the community of nations recently, with a distinct combination of Spanish and American colonial past, the Philippines stands as one of the most unique countries.
To wit, it counts IDG – the publishing, research, and conference giant – as an investor, but IDG isn't its sole or even majority investor.
For more than four of 10 families with children, a woman is the majority or sole breadwinner.
Staff took sole responsibility for the majority of actions listed in care plans at baseline and follow up, as shown in Table 1.
Mr. Neily, in common with few people except Justice Kennedy, the sole justice in both majorities, said he found both decisions defensible.
Donation-heavy incumbents are the sole candidates in the vast majority of congressional primaries – and if they are challenged, lobbyist-funded war chests of $500,000 plus are not uncommon (this, needless to say, is one of the reasons why Barack Obama's health reforms are in such a mess).
Our own study in yeast (which can be used to model cancer cells [24]) led to the conclusion that carnosine may affect glycolysis [27]; addition of carnosine to yeast growing on glucose as sole carbon source, where the majority of ATP is generated from glycolysis, caused up to 20% cell death and a decreased overall growth rate.
Representatives of 11 of the 12 teams in the league at the time joined the association; the Chicago Bears were the sole dissenter; by November 1956 a majority of the players signed cards allowing the NFLPA to represent them.
By locating low-load spaces along the perimeter of the building, the project is able to take advantage of natural ventilation as the sole conditioning strategy for the majority of the year and is supplemented less than 10percentt of the year with radiant heating.
