Sentence examples for the majority wait from inspiring English sources

"If they're this disappointed now when they're still in the majority, wait until January".

Some British families exchange gifts at midnight, but the majority wait until Christmas morning.

He triumphed by spending 27 years in prison and then doing an elaborate deal with the men who put him there — a deal that temporarily protected the jobs, the lands and the industrial wealth of the white minority, a deal that made the disenfranchised majority wait patiently for their reparations, a deal that minimized the flight of white capital and expertise and averted a prolonged blood bath.

The usual limit is 15 minutes, but last week, in a move that many Democrats called politically motivated, the Republic majority waited 38 minutes before ending voting on a bill to limit the main antiterrorism law.

If you learn to sum up situations quickly and to respond according to what needs to be done, you place yourself in a position of being different from the silent majority waiting to be shown what should happen next.

Perhaps initially, in small numbers, but the majority will wait to see what happens next.

I think there are millions and millions like me — the vastly unhappy majority — waiting for some party to call their home.

Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, waiting to see how Mr. Boehner's measure fares, has not brought his own debt legislation to the floor.

And what of the single-minded Republican legislative majority waiting, no, stomping and snorting in the Statehouse to attempt its own act of electoral finality?

The Americans' big mistake is to think that those Afghans who do take risks and declare themselves against the Taliban represent a silent majority waiting to emerge.

So yes, there is a majority waiting, with baited breath, for the demonstrations to pass peacefully and dissipate so that we can get on with our lives.