Sentences with phrase «upon by the overwhelming majority»

I would like to think that from here on, updates will be limited and changes will be calculated (basically: bug fixes, and balance adjustments that have been carefully debated and agreed upon by the overwhelming majority of the community), as opposed to experimental, unnecessary, and sometimes seriously stupid.

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... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

This legislation, which passed with overwhelming bi-partisan majorities at the time, was based upon the sound evidence that children who can not read on grade level by fourth grade begin a cycle of falling behind and are much more likely to drop out of high school, and experience a spiraling set of consequences that often lead to unemployment and incarceration.