Sentences with phrase «rather than a majority»

It is all about hiding, disguising the truth until it becomes of the past just as that as did that unlawful country was recognized by the USA with out the UN majority vote and UN members were to face the Reality that the USA is taking advantage of her majority states and voting power rather than the majority of the UN member countries no matter how small or poor they are although at that time the majority of member countries were under occoupation or protection of USA and Allies and after the WW1 & 2!

The problem is you hear from the wind bags rather than the majority.

I say this just in case there was anyone left who still doesn't realise rather than the majority who probably think that that statement is as banal as saying grass is green.

Isn't a plurality (aka relative majority) of votes that's required for a person to win in any particular district, rather than a majority?

He continues to win by pluralities rather than majorities (47.3 % in Arizona, 41.1 % in Michigan), keeping alive the «what - if» question: what if someone managed to rally the «not - Romney» vote?

It also wants a change to balloting rules to 40 % of the balloted workforce support industrial action, rather than a majority of those voting.

Assemblyman Rory Lancman won't challenge fellow Democratic Representative Gary Ackerman, nixing what could have been a bloody intra-party feud in the wake of redistricting lines that were drawn by a court, rather than the majority parties in Albany.

That means at the last general election the Conservatives would have won a majority of 40, rather than the majority of 12 they actually got.

The conversation so often centers around people who do receive early treatment and are still sick rather than the majority of us who have been sick for years and never knew we were bitten so got no early treatment.

We often focus on the few who make the worst mistakes, rather than the majority who only make minor mistakes.

When you do a balance transfer, more of your monthly payment is contributed to the principle, rather than that majority of your bill payment going toward interest.

In a day and age, in which Mortal Kombat, Injustice and Street Fighter V feature strong story modes, Tekken 7 «s is a shallow but confusing mess and only features 10 or so characters rather than the majority of the roster.

The US listened to sceptics rather than the majority of climatologists for many years and as a result did not ratify the Kyoto protocol.

Not exact matches

Facing opposition from internet pioneers, online companies, members of Congress and the vast majority of Americans — all of whom are worried about broadband providers offering cut - down packages of services rather than the full internet — he released a jokey video scoffing at their dire predictions.

«Today we find that a majority of people would rather see the crown go directly to Prince William rather than Prince Charles.

To the Fed's credit, the majority of FOMC members in January 2008 based their policy decisions on the mounting dysfunctional behavior of the financial markets rather than ephemeral coincident indicators such as real GDP growth.

Both of these solutions seem to imply that the majority of the harassment comes from venture capitalists, rather than any other group of industry power brokers.

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.

Outside estimates of pass - through business income have shown that it is a small number of large businesses that account for the majority of pass - through profits and economic activity, rather than true mom - and - pops.

Rather than spend the majority of your marketing budget on promotions leading up to the season, consider saving part of it for the post-holiday stretch.

But there's no need to spend the majority of your time on the internet numbing your brain rather than feeding it.

It might seem odd to have a family dynasty at the helm of one of the world's most powerful media organizations, but such an arrangement — in which the Sulzbergers control the majority of the voting shares — used to be the rule in media rather than the exception.

Census data from 2011 showed that the vast majority of Canadian seniors (over 90 %) live in their own homes, rather than a seniors» residence or health care facility.

In a recent study done by Joseph Rosenberg for the non-partisan, Tax Policy Center, it was determined that the top one percent and the top 0.1 percent get a majority of their income from businesses they own and investments rather than a monthly paycheck.

The U.S. solar industry employs more than 260,000 workers - about five times more than the coal industry - with the vast majority involved in installation rather than panel manufacturing.

Research indicates, for instance, that companies with majority (rather than plurality) voting for directors are more apt to adopt shareholder proposals that garner majority support, and that many chief financial officers are willing to forgo investments in projects expected to be profitable in the longer term in order to meet analysts» quarterly earnings estimates.

The Board as a whole is accountable, in large part reflecting its composition where the majority of members are business people rather than practising economists.

But that can be risky: because the vast majority of oil transactions are financial, rather than between producers and users, prices tend to be more volatile than the underlying fundamentals.

When asked to choose from a series of statements representing how they feel about their phone, a substantial majority of smartphone owners feel that these devices are «helpful» rather than «annoying,» «connecting» rather than «distracting,» and that they represent «freedom» rather than a «leash.»

By adding features like the online Ikea Planning Tools, it now sees the majority of its traffic online rather than in stores, with 1.6 billion website visits and only 812 million store visits in 2014.

However, the ratio of gold standing for delivery — the process by which a futures contract can be settled for physical gold rather than cash — rose exponentially into early December and has since fallen significantly but remains at historically high levels: The standard COMEX response would be that the overwhelming majority of futures contracts are simply rolled over at expiration into a future month or settled in cash.

Finally, the majority of survey respondents said they would use the funds offered by an employer to make extra student loan payments rather than simply cover a portion of their monthly bills.

We expect that the majority of tellers will use it as a supplement to an existing cash business, or as a bit of side income, rather than as their main revenue source.

Coworkly, a side project that's currently dominating the majority of Arar's time, arose from a desire to fill a gap he's seen in Ottawa for many years now — namely, a community of startups that focus on venture capital and raising money rather than returning to the basics of bootstrapping and profitability.

Wages have not grown as fast as prices, and the majority of UK homeowners have variable rate mortgages, rather than fixed - rate.

But most people tend to focus on the negative rather than the positive, and businesses are no different: they spend the majority of their time addressing customer complaints and negative feedback.

And later: «The language of Latin Mass was only understood by the top - heavy minority of clergy, and those steeped in religious education, rather than the lay majority.»

most Christians should and do embrace science and it's proven findings (although there is a very vocal minority that the media chooses to portray as the majority rather than the fringe that it is).

In Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell, the majority explicitly endorsed the idea that the interpretation of the Constitution should reflect «the vision of our time» rather than the intent of the framers.

Gary, Sabio seems to have missed the point that when your interpretation of the biblical text conflicts with the institutional Church's official interpretation, you go with your conscience rather than the sheeple of God majority.

But regarding early abortions, the objective should be persuasion — creating some future majority — rather than legislative coercion in the absence of a current majority.

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.

However, constituency meetings, especially those at the higher levels of the organizational pyramid, have proved unlikely to act independently because the system for choosing delegates (who are appointed rather than elected) has ensured that the vast majority hold leadership positions in the church or other church - paid positions.

«The majority of those that have left seem to indicate a desire to remain within the continental US rather than return to the island,» said Tony Suarez, vice president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC).

If football coaches ran youth and children's ministry, they'd spend the majority of their time practising skills, rather than explaining them.

lol, I laugh rather than cry, but «Roman Empire» is being revived & that's how majority will perish... nuclear war between them & radical Islamists.

Like the majority of AA's his «spiritual awakening» is of the type which William James called the «educational variety,» rather than the «hot flash» type such as was experienced by Bill W.

And at the end of the day, the vast majority of them would attribute their salvation to God's grace rather than anything they had done to earn salvation.

It seems that, in the midst of black Christian outcry in 2013, the majority of white Christians pressed the snooze button on racial justice, sleepwalking into their churches where an individualistic gospel that doesn't call them to say or do anything about racial injustice is preached, where white culture, rather than Christ, reigns supreme, and where the problems and perspectives of black people are ignored.

Rather than spending the majority of our income on buildings, salaries, and church programs, so that only what is left over goes to help the poor and needy, maybe churches could reverse this practice, so that a majority of the money that a church receives goes toward feeding the hungry, helping the poor, and serving those who are outcast and rejected in society.