Sentence examples for the majority sought from inspiring English sources

From 1917 to 1970, the majority sought cloture fifty-eight times.

"The majority sought stricter age limits on social vices: drinking, gambling, marriage and the like.

If the symptoms continued or worsened after this, the majority sought care at health facilities.

Few girls indicated that they could discuss any matter with their mothers while the majority sought advice from their best friends.

But he seems uninterested in political subtleties in each society, especially on Taiwan, where the majority seeks to maintain the status quo until political evolution on the mainland makes the question of unification, or permanent separation, clearer and safer.

Rather than boosting affordable rented housing – the tenure of necessity for the majority seeking a home – the government seems bent on reducing the stock of social housing by cajoling housing associations to sell rented properties and forcing councils to offload high-value ones.

And in matters of location, he was clever, because while impostors show up in every borough, Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer said the majority seek cover in poor communities, on streets where people might be desperate for services and willing to pay cash without asking questions.

Slightly more than one-quarter of participants had accessed medical care in the past 6 months with the majority seeking care through medical clinics (76% of females and 73% of males).

The Guardian understands that the vast majority sought to weaken the proposed limits or introduce exemptions.

The Presbyterian majority sought to disband the army to reduce the threat of those Independents, but issues over pay (which was in arrears), widows' pensions, and other grievances, prompted the Presbyterians to enter into negotiations with the army.

In the end, a vast majority sought compensation from the fund, which paid out more than $7 billion to survivors of 2,880 people who were killed and to thousands of others who were injured.