Sentence examples for with a significant majority from inspiring English sources

The referendum, which was conducted relatively peacefully, passed with a significant majority of the vote.

Bordeaux fared the worst, with a significant majority — sixty-one per cent — picking the cheap plonk as the more expensive selection.

But how long Mr. Sharon can remain the leader of a party with a significant majority opposed to him is a great guessing game of Israeli politics.

In January Endemol reached a deal with a "significant majority" of its lenders to bring its debt down to about €500m, ending more than a year of talks.

Of 211 clinical commissioning groups in England, the regional organisations that partly replaced primary care trusts last year, just 3% have a formal strategy for perinatal mental health services, with a significant majority having no plans to implement one.

"The moment you say – they are going to get themselves into a terrible twist – that the government of the day, with a significant majority in parliament, can drive through parliament a rewriting of human rights disciplines you are basically accepting that human rights provisions are not universal – that they are pick and choose".

In our study, conducted in the northeastern part of Poland on a group of 110 patients with TBE, a significant majority was co-infected with Borrelia species (30/110; 27 %), much less with A. phagocytophilum (12/110; 10.9 %) and with Babesia spp. (1/110; 0.9 %).

According to a new Gallup poll (in partnership with Lumina Foundation for Education), a significant majority of the American public (69percentt) believes strongly that a college degree is essential to getting a good job.

Iraq's Arabs, except for the small percentage who are Christian, are divided between the rival branches of Islam-Sunnism & Shiism-with the Shiites constituting a significant majority.

As soon as genome sequences of bacteria became available, it has been shown that a substantial fraction of the genome of each species, from approximately one third in bacteria with very small genomes, to a significant majority in species with larger genomes, consists of families of paralogs, genes that evolved via gene duplication at different stages of evolution [ 6- 9].

So far the Scottish electorate has proved impervious to David Cameron's charms; the Tories in Scotland are still spoken about with real distaste by a significant majority of the electorate.