Sentence examples for the first majority from inspiring English sources

Turkey has become the first majority middle-class and majority Muslim society in history.

Morales came to power in a special election in 2005, gaining the first majority in Bolivian history.

It got Modi to power, with the first majority seen in the Indian parliament for 30 years.

Jason Burke: He has swept to power with the first majority the Indian parliament has seen in 30 years.

David Cameron has made no changes to the most powerful positions in his cabinet in a defiant start to building the first majority Tory government in 18 years.

Last year the residents of Hamtramck in Michigan elected what is reported to be the first majority Muslim city council in the United States.

"Despacito" sounds unusually insistent and spontaneous, and it's the first majority-Spanish song to hit No. 1 in America since "Macarena," in 1996.

After the excitement of the first majority-rule elections, turnouts have been low in Zimbabwe, and it was the opposition's success in mobilizing urban voters that shaped the outcome.

In 2010, when African Americans in Brooks county organized a massive voter turnout drive and elected the first majority-black school board in its history, the secretary of state, Brian Kemp, had a dozen African American activists and school board members arrested and, over the course of a long grueling four-year period, dragged through the courts.

In 2013, for instance, Hamtramck, Michigan, became the first majority-Muslim city in the United States and now has four Muslim members on the city's six-seat council. .

Relations with the bloc's powerful Eurasian neighbor, which has long sought to become the first majority-Muslim country to join the union, have sunk to a new low at a time when cooperation has never been more critical.