Sentences with phrase «bigger than the majority»

It's bigger than the majority of watches on this list and this will certainly appeal to a lot of people.

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The House of Commons is set to approve the measures with a big majority after the pacifist leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said he would allow his lawmakers a free vote, rather than impose a party whip.

Kane also drew attention to one of the other questions in the poll, where a majority of those polled said that poverty and unemployment was a bigger problem than inequality and the presence of some super rich individuals.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

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If the proposal doesn't comply with the Senate's rules, an ensuing fight could pit conservatives against moderates and institutionalists — and could edge Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY) closer to completely eliminating the legislative filibuster, a move with far bigger implications than health care policy.

And thirdly, of course, higher leverage means that monetary policy's impact via its effect on the behaviour of borrowers will be bigger than in the past — especially in a country like Australia where the majority of household debt is at floating rates.

New Democrats have repeatedly pointed out that it is ludicrous to force the public sector, which is responsible for less than one per cent of greenhouse gases emitted in the province, to subsidize big polluters who pay no penalty for the majority of their greenhouse gas emissions.

The biggest mistake that most atheists make is painting with the broadest of brushes: rather than use words like «some» or «many» or «most» re Christians, most atheists simply paint the entirety of U.S. Christianity as a monolithic group that supports everything the so - called «Christian right» (which, like the Moral Majority before it, is neither) lobbies for.

A new flight restriction out of the Trump administration will keep passengers on United States - bound flights from eight Muslim - majority countries from carrying on any electronics bigger than a cell phone.

The safest prediction is that the biggest beneficiaries of Social Security privatization will be managers of the conservative mutual funds in which the vast majority of workers will invest in the hope that they will be no worse off than under the old system.

In this case, the losers happen to be the majority of Australia's farmers, and the big winners have been Australia's two major supermarkets, whose market share has more than doubled since the mid-1970s.

These circumstances, plus the fact that the volatile Snyder (or The Cookie Monster, as the majority Nabisco stockholder is sometimes known) could even imply that McAdoo, a man who works as hard in practice as in games, who plays more minutes and shoulders a bigger burden than anybody in the NBA, was a loafer, made the suspension a landmark in the history of dubious decisions.

Both schools pull in more athletic revenue than the majority of front - line Big 12 candidates, but they have way worse men's basketball programs, smaller fanbases, less academic funding, and lower university rankings than the league's averages.

Well, the record shows that the declarations by our majority shareholder and CEO are no more than hot air which have come our way before which have yielded nothing but consolation prizes while we surrender the change of winning big to the new breed of bigger clubs.

Need bigger balls than Usmanov has, to overtake (to buy his majority stocks) Arsenal from him.

Under his rival and current majority share holder Stan Kroenke, Arsenal have seen their «business» turn more towards saving money and making big bucks for the American, rather than investing the same money into players that will help the team win trophies.

Other than Blind, where the majority of search activity came from Holland, the bulk of searches around our other signings took place in Africa — Di Maria and Falcao were big news in Guinea according to Google's data, whilst Welbeck was the talk of the town in Kenya.

Astra themselves have spent the majority of their existence in the lower leagues, and are considered to be a much smaller club than the two big Bucharest teams.

Labour have only been out of power for two years, having left Britain with the biggest deficit in the OECD, and yet YouGov polling throughout the early half of May 2012 have put Labour between nine and thirteen points ahead of the Conservatives, giving Labour a more than comfortable majority at the next General Election.

Add in the 11 seats won by the Conservatives in Wales, and the right would have taken 360 seats - an overall majority of 70, bigger than Blair's victory in 2005.

More than three quarters of all voters, including a clear majority of those who intend to vote Labour on Thursday, think the last Labour government «must accept a large part of the blame» for Britain's economic problems; Mr Miliband is unlikely to succeed in his campaign to persuade the electorate that this idea is a «big lie» put about by the coalition.

Isn't a bigger factor that representatives are elected by district, and districts are uniform enough that the majority tends to win repeatedly in multiple districts rather than proportionately to its share?

Ben Bradshaw's 13.3 % majority is bigger than the Ukip vote share, with the Lib Dems having collapsed since 2010.

Both Lamont and Davidson secured big majorities in the union section (65 % and 61 % respectively) whilst even Lamont failed to win a majority amongst individual members by a long way, winning less than 37 % in the first ballot — Davidson won just a quarter of that section, whilst Cathy Jamieson won about 43 % in the last Leadership election in 2008 (admittedly in the second ballot — Lamont may also have achieved that had this gone to another round).

In an election where many constituencies only had Labour and Tory candidates standing, the vote shares of the big two are naturally going to be much larger than in an election where every constituency had a Lib Dem and the vast majority had some assortment of Ukippers, Greens, BNP, English Democrats, Socialists, and God knows who else as well.

So, after clinging on for a full five years Major goes to the polls, Smith wins with ease, presiding over a Labour majority of 150, an even bigger margin of victory than that achieved by Clement Attlee after World War II.

Then, Obama is scheduled to give two big speeches next week to try and frame his administration's response to the recession, less than two months ahead of a midterm election where Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are on the ropes.

Perhaps he wishes to rack up the world's biggest chit from the Senate Republicans, who would quite literally owe the continued existence of their majority to Cuomo; or maybe, as the slightly darker version of this theory goes, Cuomo wants his party to stay in the minority in the Senate, because actually he would prefer to deal with a disciplined, perpetually indebted Republican majority there than a dysfunctional, chaos - making Democratic one.

During more than 20 years as Assembly speaker, Silver played a major part in creating state budgets and policies as one of Albany's «three men in a room» when big decisions are made: the governor, the Senate majority leader and the speaker.

Also, the biggest liberal concerns about Islamist practices and abuses involve matters that can only be implemented with majority control of the government (e.g. excessive use of corporal punishment in the criminal justice system), but which are much less harmful to non-Muslims, at least, when Muslims can only enforce their ideologies on co-religionists and can only do so via institutions of civil society rather than institutions of coercive government control.

«I'm actually a big fan of sun setting more legislation than not simply because as circumstances change it gives you an opportunity to make adjustments and amendments as time goes on,» Majority Leader Joe Morelle said.

Labour targets Corby, Croydon Central, Plymouth Moor View, Morley and Outwood, Derby North, Gower, Thurrock and Telford all have smaller Conservative majorities than the additional number of voters since 2015 - although in these seats, with much smaller student populations and in some cases many elderly voters, other factors are likely to play a far bigger role in determining the outcome.

In a close election that could still be the difference between a majority and a hung Parliament, so don't underestimate its potential importance, but it would be a remarkable election if the swing in marginal seats really was 4 or 5 points bigger or smaller than the national picture.

Critics argue the Lords has become too big — it has 783 active members, a number that could swell to more than 1,000 over this parliament — and that it is an affront to democracy that the vast majority of its members are appointed, not elected.

Easton has said NYSUT — which announced in January it was spending a total of $ 425,000 on efforts with AQE — accounts for less than a majority of his group's funding, and said its biggest funder is the Schott Foundation.

This would be bigger than the 144 majority Margaret Thatcher managed in 1983 and just short of the 179 - majority landslide Tony Blair won in 1997.

Based on the poll, the 12,000 majority Mr Carswell won as a Conservative in Clacton in 2010 would turn into an even bigger one for Ukip of more than 15,000 on a similar turnout.

I also suspect the Conservative majority will be large — if it isn't it'll be partly because of a bigger UKIP vote than that.

For the last three elections its majority has been bigger than the number of seats it has held in Scotland.

The Conservatives fail to secure an overall majority despite gaining a bigger share of the vote than Labour did in 2005.

Currently the majority of core - nanotech companies are of small or medium size, which means that there are usually fewer politics than in big companies.

But if you're constantly miserable at work — the place you spend the majority of your waking hours — you have a bigger problem than «office munchies.»

The vast majority of folks would rather drink a glass of goo than eat whole brown rice, multigrain bread or have a big serving of steamed kale.

Polette has sunglasses that are more unique and sometimes cheaper than those at Target — and we know how obsessed the majority of Millennial America (OK, the majority of femalekind) is with the Big Red Bullseye.

Neutral shades of tans and whites have always been a big majority of the colors in my closet, but lately I am wearing lots of blues and more black than usual.

Some of the other big takeaways from the Bellarmine study are that a majority of swingers have more than 14 years of education, and more than 72 % are members of some sort of religious institution (vs. 61 % of non-swingers).

Now this is a big issue with sugar mommas as the majority, if not all, would like to retain their privacy and most sugar mommas are more than hesitant to share personal information.

Unfortunately, the large majority of the cash went toward Tim and Eric living a lifestyle of Hollywood excess, complete with plastic surgeries, stylists, an expensive life coach (Zach Galifianakis) who has magical powers for no reason except that there's no reason for him to have magical powers, and piercings (The movie gives us a long look in close and medium shots of Eric getting a genital piercing (using, we assume and hope, a prosthetic), which is the first of a few reasons why the MPAA's decision to give this an R rating is a bigger point of offense than anything in the movie, especially considering the ratings board's tendency to overreact to naughty words).

You can have a majority support on school choice in polls but lose in elections because union members have a far bigger stake than the average voter.