Sentence examples for majority from high-quality English sources.

• A majority of voters?

• The average forecast majority is 59.

• "Women do the great majority of childcare.

• Majority voting has credentials for being democratic.

• Objections are also expected from a majority of House Republicans.

• A dozen seats are truly marginal, with a majority of under 1% of the vote.

• Another MRP poll by Datapraxis, for The Sunday Times, put the majority at 38.

• One region will combine Muslim-majority Kashmir and Hindu-majority Jammu.

Use majority in a sentence.

• How can I become majority floor leader, and how can I stay majority floor leader?

• The legislation can pass with standard majority votes, instead of two-thirds majority support in the Senate.

• That double count — a majority of members representing a majority of the population — is called a qualified majority.

• House Democrats will maintain their majority, but Pelosi is on track to lead the thinnest majority in decades after sustaining unexpected losses.

• They had a majority in the referendum, they certainly had a majority in the European elections and they had a majority again tonight."

• At the time of the partition, the British agreed to divide their former colony into two countries: Pakistan, with a Muslim majority, and India, with a Hindu majority.

• Although each individual judge respects the relevant legal doctrine, there is a majority for p, a majority for q, and yet a majority against r—in breach of legal doctrine.

• At all other times it shall act by a double-majority system: to carry, a vote shall be supported by a majority of Member States, containing a majority of the Union's population. (10)

majority sentence examples

• If passage had required support from (a) a majority of nations, representing (b) a majority of the EU population, the passage probability would have been 25%, no matter whether the Union had 15 members or 27.

• This compares with the picture from conventional opinion polls, which range from ICM, showing a 6-point Tory lead that would give Boris Johnson a majority of about 10, to Opinium, with a 15-point lead that would produce a majority of 130.

• Greg Clark was successful in Tunbridge Wells with a majority of 14,645; Stephen Hammond gained a majority of 628 to win in Wimbledon; Caroline Nokes had a majority of 10,872 as she was re-elected in Romsey and Southampton North; and Steve Brine retained Winchester by 985 votes.

• However, a majority of the voters (voters 1, 2 and 3) do not support the majority outcome on a majority of the issues (note that voter 1 does not support the majority outcome on issues 2 and 3; voter 2 does not support the majority outcome on issues 1 and 3; and voter 3 does not support the majority outcome on issues 1 and 2)!