Word Finder - majority

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More than half (50%) of some group.

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The majority agreed that the new proposal was the best.

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The difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes.

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The winner with 53% had a 6% majority over the loser with 47%.

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Legal adulthood.

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By the time I reached my majority, I had already been around the world twice.

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The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.

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On receiving the news of his promotion, Charles Snodgrass said he was delighted to be entering his majority.

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Ancestors; ancestry.

It's also covered by the majority of Memon's army.

Some columns, supposing they had reached their destination, halted, piled arms, and settled down on the cold ground, but the majority marched all night and arrived at places where they evidently should not have been.

The largest of the Sanctuaries, it was packed with the majority of the Immortals who had been present in the castle.

Granted that the majority are able at last either to own or hire the modern house with all its improvements.

The majority struggled back to the bank from which they had started.

Official corruption and speculation have led to some unsound ventures, but in the great majority of cases the lines constructed have been beneficial and productive.

A majority of the members elected to each house may submit the question of calling a convention to the people; and if a majority of the votes cast approve, an election for members of a convention shall be held, and all acts of the convention must be submitted to the people for ratification or rejection.

Ed was still a good stud, throwing a majority of quality fillies.

The majority of the council abandoned their supporter, who was executed in due course.

The other was that vague and quite Russian feeling of contempt for everything conventional, artificial, and human--for everything the majority of men regard as the greatest good in the world.

This latter family contains the great majority of the order.

The majority of the species belong to the family Pulicidae, of which P. irritans maybe taken as the type; but the order also includes the Sarcopsyllidae, the females of which fix themselves firmly to their host, and the Ceratopsyllidae, or bat-fleas.

The majority of the buildings are grass tukls.

But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

He succeeded in making the majority of the Britons, Picts and Scots tributary to him.

In the majority of cases the conditions of success are that the wild creatures should be obtained as young as possible, kept in their native localities until they have become accustomed to man and to such food as they can be given at their ultimate destinations.

The majority of the fighting covered two streets to her right.

He may veto a bill, or in case of an appropriation bill, the separate items, but this veto may be overridden by a simple majority of the total membership of each house.

From that time forth, though he could not always command an absolute majority in council, Hastings was never again subjected to gross insult, and his general policy was able to prevail.

The province of Buenos Aires has more than 600 lakes, the great majority small, and some brackish.

If a second poll is necessary a relative majority is sufficient.

The estimated population is about 12,000, of whom ii,000 are Kurds, and the majority of the remaining 1000 Jews.

Flowing into the Pacific Ocean on the east coast there are some fine rivers, but the majority have short and rapid courses.

Every tenth year, beginning in 1880, the Senate is authorized to propose amendments, which proposals, if concurred in by the majority of the members of the House of Representatives, are published in the principal newspapers of the state.

The vast majority of the Europeans are Roman Catholics.

The apparently structureless substance is saturated with it; and if once a cell is completely dried, even at a low temperature, in the enormous majority of cases its life iS gone and the restoration of water fails to enable it to recover.

The former is morphologically the more primitive condition, and is found in the overwhelming majority of birds, including many Passeriformes.

The majority of apologists in the past have further believed in an infallible Bible; but they admit this position can only be reached at a late stage in the argument.

The majority, however, refused to be reconciled.

The manor was indeed self-sufficient and independent in the sense that it could furnish everything required by the majority of the inhabitants, and that over the greater part of rural England production was not carried on with a view to a distant market.

Two pairs of wings are present in the vast majority of insects, borne respectively on the mesothorax and metathorax.

Although there are some good arable farms in favoured districts, the vast majority of holdings are small crofts occupied mostly by peasants who combine fishing with farming.

The native settlements consisted of pagi (cantons) containing a number of vici (villages), the majority of the large towns being of Roman origin.

The majority of them were rotundas, and were adorned with statues and paintings.

The general election resulted in a Tory majority of eighty.

The elections resulted in a majority favourable to the new ministry, and a series of laws were passed of a reactionary tendency with a view to strengthening the government.

On the 7th of March 1606 Sigismund summoned a diet for the express purpose of introducing the principle of decision by majority in the diet, whereupon Zebrzydowski summoned a counter-confederation to Stenczyn in Little Poland, whose first act was to open negotiations with the prince of Transylvania, Stephen Bocskay, with the view of hiring mercenaries from him for further operations.

The majority of species are hermaphrodite and many are capable of self-impregnation.

The upshot of his oratory was the summoning of a rokosz, or national insurrection, to Sandomir, which was speedily joined by the majority of the szlachta all over the country, who openly proclaimed their intention of dethroning the king and chastising the senate, and sent Stadnicki to Transylvania to obtain the armed assistance of Stephen Bocskay.

All financial and economical questions before the diet were henceforth to be decided by a majority of votes.

It must, however, be noted that one class of the measures taken to punish the old governing part of the population of Poland has been very favourable to the majority.

The home of the vast majority of parrot-forms is unquestionably within the tropics, but the popular belief that parrots are tropical birds only is a great mistake.

Some of the smaller gardens in Europe, and perhaps a majority of those in other parts of the world, pay much attention to this side, but the more important collections are as much as possible limited to natural species and wild animals.

But the vast majority of birds and mammals not only can endure a large range of temperature, but thrive best when they are subjected to it.

The South Wales clergy who regularly itinerated were dying out; the majority of those remaining itinerated but irregularly, and were most of them against the change.

The ideas of the Revolution were slow in penetrating to this ignorant peasant population, which had always been less civilized than the majority of Frenchmen, and in 1789 the events which roused enthusiasm throughout the rest of France left the Vendeans indifferent.

Chawner, showing that, out of 86 head masters belonging to the Head Masters' Conference whose replies had been published, " about 56 held the opinion that the exemption from Greek for all candidates for a degree would endanger or altogether extinguish the study of Greek in the vast majority of schools, while about 21 head masters held a different opinion."

The result of the conference of December 1890 was a compromise between the conservatism of a majority of its members and the forward policy of the emperor.

Fruits are abundant, though indigenous fruits are few; the majority have been introduced by missionaries and others.

America, especially North America, is the home of by far the great majority of Cricetinae, several of which are called white-footed or deermice.