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Sentences ending with majority

And I'm entirely willing to discuss with him and defend any measures passed in the legislature of this state by a Republican majority. [9]
Then the vote was taken on the adoption of the report and it carried by a surprising majority. [5]
Shall be re-elected to-day by an overwhelming majority. [5]
In the mean time the city government had been at a standstill, because with out Luigi there was a tie in the board of aldermen, whereas with him the liquor interest--the richest in the political field--would have one majority. [5]
Amminadab's house was the goal sought by the majority. [10]
I judged that the cake was ours, and by a large majority. [5]
In the nature of things, the States interested in the reduction of price, in graduation, in cession, and in all similar projects, never can be the majority. [7]
I gave him Mr. Grunewald's estimated majority. [9]
I said the majority. [5]
Mr. March wanted it, because he felt in his bones just the way you do about it, and Mr. Dryfoos wanted it, because he's the counting-room incarnate, and it's cheaper; and I 'wanted it, because I always like to go with the majority. [8]

Short sentences using majority

However, Badeni secured his majority. [5]

Sentences containing majority two or more times

When the vote was taken upon it, a majority of all present in the Congress of the Confederation voted for it; but there were so many absentees that those voting for it did not make the clear majority necessary, and it was lost. [7]
Then came letters telling of Mr. Dilworthy's struggles with a stubborn majority in his own Committee in the Senate; of how these gentlemen succumbed, one by one, till a majority was secured. [5]
The majority of mankind live largely in the imagination, the office or use of which is to lift them in spirit out of the bare physical conditions in which the majority exist. [4]
There is no higher authority anywhere than the will of the majority, no matter what the majority is in intellect and morals. [4]
And yet no approach to such unanimity is attainable unless some deference shall be paid to the will of the majority simply because it is the will of the majority. [7]

More example sentences with the word majority in them

Missouri would not yield the point; and Congress that is, a majority in Congress--by repeated votes showed a determination not to admit the State unless it should yield. [7]
We, the majority, would not strive to dissolve the Union; and if any attempt is made, it must be by you, who so loudly stigmatize us as disunionists. [7]
He always had work, he never saved a penny, he was a most persuasive borrower, he was in debt to every pilot on the river, and to the majority of the captains. [5]
I think he will tell you that the majority of his customers show a distinct difference of height on the two sides. [6]
If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the Government must cease. [7]
All of us who did not vote for Mr. Buchanan, taken together, are a majority of four hundred thousand. [7]
The great majority who are unable to survive the test pay the price. [9]
And this contribution, which I desire to be understood to mean when I speak of literature, is precisely the thing of most value in the lives of the majority of men, whether they are aware of it or not. [4]
From the time when he could barely handle tools until he attained his majority, Lincoln's life was that of a simple farm laborer, poorly clad, housed, and fed, at work either on his father's wretched farm or hired out to neighboring farmers. [7]
The nation is what the majority of its citizens are. [4]
If, after all, what is now sought is to have me put Dr. McPheeters back over the heads of a majority of his own congregation, that, too, will be declined. [7]
I suppose, by what I see, that sweet wooing, with all its torturing and delightful uncertainty, still goes on in the world; and I have no doubt that the majority of married people live more happily than the unmarried. [4]
But if it were, it would still be the fault of the minority, for the majority don't institute these proceedings. [5]
They and he were clearly in a minority, and his deep inward longing to be with the majority was growing into an engrossing passion. [6]
The undersigned are well aware that this protest will be altogether unavailing with the majority of this body. [7]
Mr. Redbrook's speech, vehement and honest, helps a little; people listen to an honest and forceful man, however he may lack technical knowledge, but the majority of the replies are mere incoherent denunciations of the Northeastern Railroads. [9]
The former preserve us from becoming Europeanized; they keep our pride of country intact, and at the same time they intensify our affection for our country and our people; whereas long visits have the effect of dulling those feelings--at least in the majority of cases. [5]
It is quite true that of the senators who passed the Nebraska Bill a majority of the whole Senate will retain their seats in spite of the elections of this and the next year. [7]
Do you know, too, that the majority of men look upon all who challenge their attention,--for a while, at least,--as beggars, and nuisances? [6]
If we submit to the will of the majority, it is because it is more convenient to do so; and if the republic or the democracy vindicate itself, it is because it works best, on the whole, for a particular people. [4]
He was gravitating to the majority, where he hoped to find "rest"; but he was dreadfully sensitive to the opinions of the minority he was on the point of leaving. [6]
I ask you to remember, while certain amendments were made which he disapproved of, but which a majority of the committee voted in, he has himself told us that in this particular the alterations and modifications were made by him, upon consultation with Toombs. [7]
I wish rather to have you notice the gulf that exists between what the majority want to know and that fine fruit of knowledge concerning which there is so widespread an infidelity. [4]
The majority seemed to be powerful men. [10]
We declare it to be our solemn conviction, that the Whigs are always a majority of this nation; and that to make them always successful needs but to get them all to the polls and to vote unitedly. [7]
When was the time to come (he asked) when the States in which the public lands were situated would compose a majority of the representation in Congress, or anything like it? [7]
This was the time taken to order strikes, and they were enforced in perhaps a majority of cases against the wishes of those who obeyed the order, and who complained of no immediate grievance. [4]
Not only all those who supported the Union ticket, so called, but a great majority of the opposing party also may be fairly claimed to entertain and to be actuated by the same purpose. [7]
In proof of this there is the fact that the majority of the council voted for such a retreat, and above all there is the well-known conversation after the council, between the commander in chief and Lanskoy, who was in charge of the commissariat department. [2]
We shall carry this county by a larger majority than we did in 1836, when you ran against May. [7]
I learn that this body is composed of a majority of gentlemen who, in the exercise of their best judgment in the choice of a chief magistrate, did not think I was the man. [7]
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. [2]
In spite of these known facts, the impression of popularity, of repudiation of reform by a large majority of level-headed inhabitants had reassuring and reenforcing effects. [9]
While abuses like these exist, tolerated by the majority that not only make public opinion, but make the laws, this is not a government for the people, any more than a government of bosses is a government by the people. [4]
The majority of them were inquisitive letters. [11]
The majority of them insist that humanity is not to be trusted. [9]
The majority of them are well-behaved young gentlemen, who carry switch-canes, and try to keep near the fashions, like students at home. [4]
The majority spent their time in idleness, quarreling, and plotting mutiny. [4]
From the first the vast majority of folk had sided with Louise and denounced Mazarine. [11]
Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. [7]
To this body the people had chosen a large majority of professed Union men. [7]
A few complained, the majority were resigned; some indeed showed exaltation and fire, were undaunted by the task of picketing in the cold mornings, by the presence of the soldiery. [9]
The members of the Majority went out by detachments from time to time and took naps upon sofas in the reception-rooms; and also refreshed themselves with food and drink--in quantities nearly unbelievable--but the Minority stayed loyally by their champion. [5]
I reiterate that the majority should rule. [7]
Witnesses differ, but the majority say that she struck thus. [7]
Asiatics appeared in the majority only in the market place, where the dealers were just leaving their stands to secure their goods from the storm. [10]
In our time the majority of so-called advanced people--that is, the crowd of ignoramuses--have taken the work of the naturalists who deal with one side of the question for a solution of the whole problem. [2]
The Eletto took the field with a large body of troops; the majority of the mutineers, with them. [10]
Almost immediately after the fall of Sumter, many members of that majority went over to the original disunion minority, and with them adopted an ordinance for withdrawing the State from the Union. [7]
It is true, the English-hearted majority of the people wanted Joan burned, but that did not keep them from laughing at the man they hated. [5]
Laws must be the direct expression of the will of the majority, and be altered solely on its will. [4]
The majority of the Brothers, seeing in it dangerous designs of Illuminism, * met it with a coldness that surprised Pierre. [2]
That is what the book is bought and read for, by the great majority of its purchasers, as all but simpletons very well know. [6]
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. [2]
It is said that the vast majority of the Heidelberg students are hard workers, and make the most of their opportunities; that they have no surplus means to spend in dissipation, and no time to spare for frolicking. [5]
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. [4]
It is said that the majority of Americans read nothing except the paper. [4]
The third doctrine, that Psora, the other name of which you remember, is the cause of the great majority of chronic diseases, is a startling one, to say the least. [3]
If he believed that his chances of obtaining either were as poor as the majority of men find them to be, ambition would die within him. [4]
It is true that he went beyond the majority of them, but into a region which they regarded as preeminently safe,--a region the soil of which was traditional. [9]
The majority saw that every act of Dyck had proved him just and capable. [11]
I dare say that a majority of its reading public, at any time, would have preferred a monarchical system and a hierarchy of rank. [4]
To me and, thank Heaven, to the majority of Germans, life deprived of them would seem unendurable. [10]
It will not take many years to bring you to the period of life when men, at least the majority of writing and talking men, do nothing but praise. [6]
He wanted to stay, but he went against his will, and--and I wish that the grub-hunters, and tuft-hunters, and the blind greedy majority in England could get hold of what he got hold of. [11]
The great majority South, as well as North, have human sympathies, of which they can no more divest themselves than they can of their sensibility to physical pain. [7]
She was so small (though she was larger than the majority of the inter-island coasters) that when I stood on her deck I felt but little smaller than the Colossus of Rhodes must have felt when he had a man-of-war under him. [5]
He didn't always side with the majority, and he had a gift of doin' things on the square. [11]
I've come to see how little can be done for the great majority of those who have reached our age. [9]
There were no schools where the teaching was in English, yet the great majority of the white population of the State knew no tongue but that. [5]
Writers of this school go in rags, in the matter of state directions; the majority of them having nothing in stock but a cigar, a laugh, a blush, and a bursting into tears. [5]
In this very room, a month or two ago, some people admired that portrait; some admired this, but the great majority fastened on that, and said, "There is a portrait that is a beautiful piece of art. [5]
We have already resolved to make a particular effort to give you the very largest majority possible in our county. [7]
Gentlemen, it will require a decided majority to pass such an act. [7]
I cannot but remember that it is done by the people who do not, by a large majority, agree with me in political sentiment. [7]
Gagabu and I received you among us, against the opinion of the majority of the initiated. [10]
There is much reason to believe that the Union men are the majority in many, if not in every other one, of the so-called seceded States. [7]
Badeni's majority was ready to carry it through; but the minority was determined to obstruct it and delay it until the obnoxious Czech-language measure should be shelved. [5]
We have no quarrel with the majority of our officers. [11]
He wondered why Providence could not have reversed the usual process, and let the majority of men begin with wealth and gradually spend it, and die poor when they no longer needed it. [5]
It is not pretended that the disease is always, or even, it may be, in the majority of cases, carried about by attendants; only that it is so carried in certain cases. [3]
As regards the presence of the superior bridging convolution, I am inclined to think that it has existed in one hemisphere, at least, in a majority of the brains of this animal which have, up to this time, been figured or described. [1]
That is your opinion, and the majority of people will share it. [10]
The great majority of these poor creatures were already ruined by such competition, and Amru, seeing the Arab leather-workers, weavers, ropemakers, and the rest, threatened with the same fate, had determined to set himself firmly to restrict all this monastic work. [10]
On the majority of them you couldn't rely in prosperity, but in misfortune you couldn't do anything else. [11]
The vast majority of the sensible part of the medical profession were contented, so far as we can judge, to let it die out of itself. [3]
The great majority of the profession are peacefully inclined. [3]
The majority, spite of the passionate hostility of the informer, voted not to expel me, but to exclude me from the examination this time, and advise me to leave the school. [10]
A large majority of the names of old authors he cites are wholly unknown to science. [3]
Some distinguished deputies of the Majority stayed by him too, compelled thereto by admiration of his great performance. [5]
But the attitude of the majority of Americans toward more backward peoples is not cynical; hence there is hope that a democratic solution of the Caribbean and Central American problem may be found. [9]
As usual, many of the Majority and the most of the Minority were standing up--to have a better chance to exchange epithets and make other noises. [5]
The first part of the letter is devoted to an effort to show that the secession ordinance of Louisiana was adopted against the will of a majority of the people. [7]
A large majority of the Baltimore convention of 1844 were, by their constituents, instructed to procure Van Buren 's nomination if they could. [7]
The vast majority of temperaments are pretty equally balanced; the intensities are absent, and this enables a nation to learn to accommodate itself to its political and religious circumstances and like them, be satisfied with them, at last prefer them. [5]
The other test of popular education is in the kind of reading sought and enjoyed by the majority of the American people. [4]
The great majority of our citizens sympathized with the Entente, regarded with amazement and disgust the sudden disclosure of the true character of the German militaristic government. [9]
The property holders of Nevada voted against the State Constitution; but the folks who had nothing to lose were in the majority, and carried the measure over their heads. [5]
To the majority of men I fancy that literature is very much the same that history is; and history is presented as a museum of antiquities and curiosities, classified, arranged, and labeled. [4]
The great majority of men are not willing to turn good, to renounce the material and sensual rewards under their hands without some definite and concrete guaranty that, if they do so, they are going, to be rewarded hereafter. [9]

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