Example sentences of "[noun pl] of the majority of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have upheld our pledge that Northern Ireland will remain an integral part of the United Kingdom in accordance with the democratically expressed wishes of the majority of the people who live there . |
| 2 | We hope the council will now take the opportunity to act in accordance with the wishes of the majority of villagers . ’ |
| 3 | It will prevent the government pushing thro' policies ( such as the poll tax ) which are contrary to the wishes of the majority of the citizens . |
| 4 | If this cycle obtains , then it is argued that government is controlled , and public policy is congruent with the wishes of the majority of the electorate for most of the time . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the general conclusion of observers was that the vote , however flawed , was the most free expression of Romanian opinion that was possible under the circumstances , and that the victory of the NSF reflected the wishes of the majority of Romanian voters . |
| 6 | This is now so widely accepted that it seems less like a theory , or even a theoretical framework , than a piece of common sense ; and in one form or another it encompasses the views of the majority of Anglo-American philosophers and neuroscientists about the basis of consciousness or , at the very least , of perception . |
| 7 | On the 2nd November 1917 the Balfour Declaration was issued with total disregard for the views of the majority of the population ( i.e. well over 80% ) . |
| 8 | In contrast to the views of the majority of local law societies , the Conference of Presidents and Secretaries concluded that existing conflict rules were ineffective , and they reluctantly supported the introduction of a prohibition . |
| 9 | L. 41 ) , provided the main inspiration for the argument of Woolwich , and the judgments of the majority of the Court of Appeal , in the present case . |
| 10 | To anticipate the argument a little , my view is that consumption patterns of the majority of people ( not only in the Third World ) are ill-matched to their needs because both consumption and needs are generally dictated by transnational practices . |
| 11 | The way these various aspects of current Roman catholic social teaching were presented in the Irish constitution can hardly be taken as fulfilment of the need to reflect the opinions of the majority of the republic 's population . |
| 12 | It was the complex interaction of these two factors that shaped the sexual mores of the majority of the population . |
| 13 | they feel confident in using the term ‘ success ’ to describe the experiences of the majority of these families and children and there is little evidence that a group of similarly aged white children growing up with their natural parents would not include a number of children experiencing similar or greater difficulties'. ( pp. 132–3 ) |
| 14 | Their activism is now able to sustain itself independently of the lives , dreams and aspirations of the majority of blacks from whose experience they derive their authority to speak . |
| 15 | When the flora of fleshy-fruited species in a forest as a whole is examined , as at Cocha Cashu in Amazonian Peru , the fruits of the majority of the species ( in this case , two-thirds of 258 species , representing a quarter of the total flora and half of the genera with fleshy fruits ) seem to fit into one of two categories . |
| 16 | In answer to the hon. Member for Edinburgh , Central ( Mr. Darling ) , I do not believe that the motives of the majority of those who claim asylum are reprehensible . |
| 17 | In principle , it would be quite possible to argue that this sense of obligation had weakened , even if the actual volume of support between kin remained at a substantial level , because more people are now in a situation where they need support , and because the economic circumstances of the majority of the population ( by comparison with a century earlier ) are much easier . |
| 18 | They give some impression of the life and environment of the wealthy and influential but cause one to forget , or overlook , the lives of the majority of people living at a lower level of survival — a majority that probably includes the makers of the art object . |
| 19 | Pointing to the way in which poverty structured the lives of the majority of her respondents , she concluded that ‘ young Black women and young white women become pregnant for the same sorts of reasons , and this is because they share the same socio-economic contexts ’ ( Phoenix , 1988a , p. 154 ) . |
| 20 | Its use of public money to set up a network of city technology colleges in joint ventures with businesses mocked the needs of the majority of children . |
| 21 | Most national institutional structures have invariably been designed to meet the needs of the majority of the population and are generally urban based and biased . |
| 22 | He added that , in his view , education in Honduras is not geared to the needs of the majority of the population and is a ‘ shop window ’ education : ‘ just for appearances , and not to solve the problem itself ’ . |
| 23 | Education has , as a consequence , become a highly charged subject , with the opposition arguing for greater state expenditure and closer attention to the needs of the majority of the population , while the government has shown little concern for improving state facilities and has repressed dissenting academic opinion . |
| 24 | The present structure of support provision fails to meet the needs of the majority of disabled people , let alone those who may have additional needs associated with ageing ( Beardshaw , 1988 ; Fiedler , 1988 ) . |
| 25 | While the politicians and administrators who framed the Act would not have wished to have espoused the notion of the ‘ undeserving poor ’ they felt unwilling to risk the public criticism that would have resulted from an approach to poverty that involved ignoring the potential waste on the ‘ work-shy ’ and the fraudulent application in order adequately to meet the needs of the majority of applicants . |
| 26 | The intention was to address the needs of the majority of children through a combination of the ‘ broadly-based curriculum ’ and ‘ flexible teaching strategies ’ , and to use additional programmes and resources to cater for certain specific categories of need . |
| 27 | ‘ In the last analysis , therefore , it is for Parliament to decide the extent to which legal services are to be provided at public expense to meet the needs of the majority of the population . |
| 28 | sentiments of the majority of people in the borough … |
| 29 | The leading authority on the constitution in the twentieth century , Sir Ivor Jennings , had no doubt that Britain was an outstanding example of a democratic system at its best because the rulers governed according to the will of the people in the sense that there was a " close relation between the policies followed by the Government and the general ideas of the majority of the electorate " . |
| 30 | They acknowledge their sin in heeding the warnings and the wild stories of the majority of the spies . |