Example sentences of "of the majority [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the meantime , get the shop stewards at your plant to take an accurate reading of the majority viewpoint without influencing the men either way . |
| 2 | If the state can relate the manifesto of the majority party to policies which emerge from negotiation between interest groups , then these policies can claim to represent both the consensus of individual electors and views of organized pressure groups . |
| 3 | Politicians of the majority party without ministerial office find themselves frustratingly shut out from a decision making process into which they are given few insights . |
| 4 | That is to say , chairmen are invariably the most senior member of the majority party on that committee . |
| 5 | By convention , the monarch sends for the leader of the majority party in the Commons . |
| 6 | The Prime Minister is leader of the majority party in the Commons . |
| 7 | Moreover , if the centre parties succeed in breaking through into parliament in large numbers then the prospect of coalition government would be increased and this would give the Crown a role in the making of governments since it would no longer be a simple and automatic matter of sending for the leader of the majority party in the Commons . |
| 8 | The committee proposed ( i ) an executive comprising a directly elected President , a Prime Minister who would be the leader of the majority party in parliament , and a Security Council consisting of the senior ministers , members of the security forces and three presidential nominees ; ( ii ) a non-partisan Council of State , including leaders of all parliamentary political parties and regional representatives , which would deal with matters of " constitutional or national significance " ; ( iii ) a single directly elected legislature ; and ( iv ) a Special Committee on Human Rights and Administrative Justice which would promote and monitor the enforcement of such rights . |
| 9 | The post of prime minister was to be held by a member of the majority party in the assembly . |