Sentence examples for the majority preference from inspiring English sources
"The majority preference is for South Sudan," said Benjamin Marial, minister of information for the southern government and a member of the steering committee, which is working on the name of the country along with other issues.
For the next Delphi round, the original statement was provided along with an alternate version to gauge the majority preference.
Power resource theory claims that generous welfare state policies are dictated by the majority preferences of middle-class citizens, to which policymakers have to respond [71, 72].
The resulting majority preferences are cyclical: we have xPy, yPz, and yet zPx.
(Philpott, 1995) Plebiscitary Theories typically add another necessary condition, beyond majority preference (in the region in question) for secession: Both the seceding unit and the remainder state must be able adequately to perform the basic functions that justify or legitimize states in the first place.
Absent an account of the normative significance of the fact of occupancy, Plebiscitary Theories do not make a convincing case that majority preference plus satisfaction of the State Viability Proviso imply the right to independent statehood.
IRV will better ensure that the winners of district elections reflect majority preference within their district.
Based on our pilot survey data, there was a majority preference for home-based, solo interventions, with walking being the most preferred activity [ 13].
Rather than refusing to countenance the rise of political Islam, as sometimes occurred in the past, democratic governments should recognize that political Islam may represent a majority preference, Human Rights Watch said.
Then theres the little matter of consumer preference: the majority have shown preference for buying singles than albums.
Condorcet's second insight, often called Condorcet's paradox, is the observation that majority preferences can be 'irrational' (specifically, intransitive) even when individual preferences are 'rational' (specifically, transitive).
