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"Majority" in a Sentence (22 examples)
A democrat is a free citizen who yields to the will of the majority.
The bill was passed by an overwhelming majority.
The bill passed by a small majority of 10 votes.
A majority of students dislike history.
The majority of the committee voted against the bill.
An overwhelming majority voted to abolish the brutal punishment.
Why is the politician trying to kill off the opinions of the majority?
The clause provides that all decisions shall be made by majority vote.
Joe spends the majority of his time in sports.
The majority of the successful candidates were university graduates.
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The majority agreed that the new proposal was the best.
Those opposing the building plans were in the majority, so the building project was canceled.
The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.
But in 1912 the American people gave the Democrats another opportunity, and under the leadership of Woodrow Wilson we swept the country from sea to sea. At the end of that historic contest we had the Presidency, the Senate by a working majority, and the House by an overwhelming majority.
They and the airline itself described an internal process that requires multiple departments to manually redesign the airline’s schedule – a system that works “the vast majority of the time,” Southwest said in a statement.
The ruling party had a narrow three-seat majority in the legislature.
The winner with 53% had a 6% majority over the loser with 47%.
Now, there is talk of Democrats potentially being locked out of a Senate majority for a time to come because of trends in the electorate. […] This shouldn’t be surprising. As political analyst Sean Trende posited in the book “The Lost Majority,” history is filled with examples of majorities falling apart and the parties coming in and out of power.
By the time I reached my majority, I had already been around the world twice.
On receiving the news of his promotion, Charles Snodgrass said he was delighted to be entering his majority.
He was a captain before he went to the front, and following the Argonne battles he got his majority and the command of the divisional machine-guns.
Of evil parents an evil generation, a posterity not unlike their majority; of mischievous progenitors, a venomous and destructive progeny.
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