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How to use the word majority in a Sentence?

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The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day. Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. ... [The War] also laid to rest the great principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.’

– Walter E. Williams

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9 months ago

If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them.

– Lysander Spooner

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9 months ago

He’s entitled to some latitude considering the complexity of the political environment we are entering into, the goal is to win the majority back. I don’t really care what the tactics are. I do care what the results is. If this helps achieve that result, I’m fine with it.

– John Cornyn

Found on CNN
12 months ago

This is not about the politics, for as long as I’ve been here, which is more than a decade, part of what we’ve done at the Treasury Department is provide the American people with information about how they can do what the vast majority of them do, which is pay their taxes.

– Wally Adeyemo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You never get the playing field perfectly level … and I think the vast majority of athletes participating at the Games realize that it’s about giving thanks. It’s about celebration.

– Chris Thomas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So, I do think there’s probably more to the timing and the amount of time you have to train post-transplant, than there is to being on immunosuppression or not. you never get the playing field perfectly level … and I think the vast majority of athletes participating at the Games realize that it’s about giving thanks. It’s about celebration.

– Chris Thomas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The current conservative majority has generally been very skeptical of how much authority various agencies exercise, the one place where they have been less skeptical though, has been an agency’s authority, which is predicated on long settled and well developed technical and scientific expertise.

– Supreme Court

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1 year ago

Men are embarrassed to go to the doctor to begin with, and you’re supposed to be a macho guy, so it’s difficult for men to say, ‘Hey, I’ve got a problem with my sex drive.’ That’s why the majority of male patients I see with HSDD are sent in by their partners.

– Stanley Althof

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Regardless of the fact whether you are top CEO or in the leading positions, the majority of people still expect that it’s [the] woman that has to take care of children or has to take care of the household.

– Oksana Markarova

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sudden cardiac arrest happens to more than 7,000 kids under the age of 18 every year in our country – 7,000 kids every year. The majority of the kids impacted are student-athletes, and research shows that 1 in every 300 youth has an undetected heart condition that puts them at risk. For schools that have AEDs, the survival rate for the children from sudden cardiac arrest is seven times higher.

– Damar Hamlin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I can’t do anything except plead with the Congress to act reasonably, i have done the full extent of my executive authority – to do on my own, anything about guns … The Congress has to act. The majority of the American people think having assault weapons is bizarre, it’s a crazy idea. They’re against that. And so I think the Congress could be passing an assault weapon ban.

– Joe Biden

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1 year ago

To be honest, at first, I was very hesitant when this idea was discussed, my mind keeps telling me to back off. I mean, let’s be real here, it was too ambitious to say the least. Like, how can a small group of students from the Pacific Region convince the majority of the UN members to support this unique initiative?

– Cynthia Houniuhi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The majority of the concerns are not based in reality.

– Alex Andrade

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The majority of the population fiercely oppose going to the polls to legitimize the military’s political control, so we will see violence ratchet up if the regime seeks to impose a vote, and resistance groups seek to disrupt them.

– Richard Horsey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What happens to all the embryos created but not used? Does it violate ethical norms of respect to create so many potential human lives knowing that the vast majority will be destroyed or indefinitely stored? in the most extreme case, imagine an individual using sloughed skin cells left on a bathtub by Brad Pitt, for example, to derive sperm or egg in order to reproduce.

– Glenn Cohen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There will be no majority to bring the government down, but it will be a moment of truth, i understand our countrymen’s fears and anxieties, but we will definitely not improve things by denying economic reality.

– Bruno Le Maire

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s a big black hole what will happen next, they do n’t have a majority so they would have to negotiate to form a cabinet and we have to wait and see what the impact will be.

– Arjan Noorlander

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1 year ago

What my research shows is that there are certain factors that increase the likelihood of a (school district) takeover, and that is majority black communities … also, increasingly Latino communities as well.

– Domingo Morel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The vast majority of runway incursions are not serious occurrences, however, reducing the risk of them occurring remains one of the FAA’s highest safety priorities and is a shared responsibility that encompasses pilots, air traffic controllers and airport vehicle drivers.

– The FAA

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is generally thought that only about 30% of the individuals with an elevated PSA will actually have cancer, and of those that do have cancer, the majority don’t need to be treated.

– Oliver Sartor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have to get a candidate who is going to be a winning presidential candidate, that’s not excluding President Trump – right now, he’s closer to getting that majority in the party than anyone else – but it didn’t work last time and we’re concerned about that.

– Kim Schmett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These are some of the best data showing that the risk of return to play may not be as high as we fear, some caveats include that the majority of these athletes were not symptomatic and about a third had an implantable defibrillator.

– Deepak Bhatt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The majority of these athletes went on to continue their career with no events at all.

– Matthew Martinez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The charter schools in our area are mostly White. The private schools are White. They are very good schools, but they may not be the best fit because they’re majority White.

– Carlos Birdsong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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