Sentences with phrase «very small majority»

It has devoted itself to implementing the «will of the people» even when that desire was expressed by a very small majority, apparently bamboozled by misrepresentations and manipulated by demagogues and self - interested media, into voting for a simple «yes» or «no».

I started off with a very small majority.

«Fundamentally she has a very small majority,» Mylles recalled, adding that Prime Minister May supported the pro-EU campaign in the lead up to the referendum.

Unlike many of her colleagues with very small majorities, Labour MP and ex-Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is intending defending her constituency at the election.

This election might create more litigation between parties and candidates, particularly where there are very small majorities and there have been instances of exclusion of voters.

Not exact matches

(At this point, it's also worth noting that Facebook's claims about the effectiveness of Free Basics as a development tool in India are highly debatable — the vast majority of those who took up the offer were existing Internet users who wanted some free data, and it seems a very small number of genuinely new users actually graduated to the world of paid - for Internet access.

In the professional investing world, a very small percentage represents the vast majority of realized gains.

A majority of cryptocurrency exchange platforms are too small still in terms of volume traded daily, and thus are not a very good fit for trading yet — if the traded volume is low, chances are that you will have to wait for a long time to get your order filled, which is why we have decided to examine only the exchanges with the highest volume.

A very small example, the vast majority of priest and preachers are living in nice houses, drive a nice car and are not really giving anything up for their religion.

Yes, when it comes to things like percentages of «Christians» as a majority of Americans the tent is extended as large as it can get, but in other issues the t.itle «Christian» seems to be claimed by a very small group of fundamentalists who have great conviction that Mormons, Catholics, mainstream protestants and orthodox aren't really Christians like they are and thus doomed to the same hellish fate that other non-Christians are.

So where I disagree with Larison is his claim that «Conservatives actually know very well that they do not speak for a majority in this country, and they are also well aware that changes that would allow for more direct, plebiscitary democracy, whether in presidential elections or in passing legislation, would work to the detriment of their smaller states and their overall political interests.»

There was a small but very passionate pro-slave minority, and then a majority who recognized a right to freedom for blacks, but didn't want to fight over it.

In The Smaller Majority, Piotr Nasrecki argues, not very persuasively, that such reactions are largely learned rather than instinctive, but at least he addresses the question.

CNN made it VERY clear that only the vast majority are under scrutiny and that a small group that split off several years ago are not.

Prayer ended, doors opened and I walked in, the majority looked up (very small church) including the pastors.

Unfortunately, the majority of mornings, I rush out the door with no more than something very small to eat until lunchtime.

But with the majority of dairy farmers supplying to Murray Goulburn and Fonterra, and the bulk of these companies» operations being focused on milk commodities for export, fresh drinking milk is a very small part of the picture for most dairy farmers.

Arsenal's famously small and technical midfield will be getting an injection of power and height too, at 6» 1 Xhaka is no Santi Cazorla, and he has the strength to hold off the majority of the premier leagues CMs, he is also very effective in the air, whether in open play or set pieces at either end, he should help improve our effectiveness for both.

The vast majority of mommas are very happy with MoBoleez's sizing but, like all clothing, there will be children on either end of the spectrum (very large or very small for their age) that will not fit into our specified size range.

With the right support, however, the vast majority of women are able to breastfeed and establish a plentiful milk supply, although there are a very small proportion of women who, due to medication or medical reasons, may be unable to do so.

Almost unanimously, professional youth sports administrators who oversee the fields at parks and recreation facilities across the country will say what a great group of volunteers they have but they will almost always concede that it's a very small group, or even an individual who ends up taking a majority of the responsibility.

But the reality is that they have won a majority on a very small swing and they have a short - term political interest in the current status quo.

Some of those in the crowd said before the speech they thought the idea of an outright Labour win was unlikely but most said they were hopeful of a hung parliament, or at worst a very small Conservative majority.

When the Lords send back (often very sensible) amendments to the Commons, they are often overruled by Ministers sitting in a tiny back - room with a small majority without debate.

A touchstone for the Tory right, a constituency Mr Cameron will need to treat very solicitously if he wins a small majority (or none at all), both the principle and the process of recognising marriage in the tax system have sparked heated debate inside the shadow cabinet in recent weeks.

Plock's situation — teaching to share his expertise rather than for the extra income — represents only a very small percentage of the adjunct population, although it is more common in the sciences than the humanities, says Matt Williams, vice president of the New Faculty Majority, an advocacy group for non-tenure-track faculty.

What we found, however, was that while the majority of customers noticed the labels, a very small percentage reported using them to influence their purchasing decisions and customers with lower income and lower education levels reported using menu labels to a much lesser extent.»

«Researchers will spend the majority of their life examining a very small piece of an entire specimen, say the inner ear or the interior of the brain cavity, looking for morphological differences.

The symptoms range widely: over half of the infections are thought to be asymptomatic, the majority of children who get sick have only a mild fever, and a very small proportion get inflammation of the heart or brain.

«They have closed the door to the vast majority of germline applications and left it open for a very small, well - defined subset.

«Health officials in both Mississippi and West Virginia report that overwhelming majorities of the public support their policies and that opposition comes from a very small number of the population.

Your small intestine is where the majority of nutrient absorption happens during the digestion process so if you have a long history of eating poor quality foods, cooked animal products, refined salts and sugars (and let's not forget the alcohol, pharmaceuticals, recreational drugs and cigarettes along the way) then it is very likely you have an impacted intestine.

The vast majority of so - called toxins (also known as cellular waste) is eliminated through urine and feces, Dr. Peeke says; sweat plays only a very small role.

I live in a very small town, so the majority of the ingredients I use can be found at your local grocery store.

Even mayonnaise that is labelled as containing olive oil, a healthier, lower omega - 6 fat, only contains a very small portion of fats from olive oil; the majority of the oils still come from soybean oil or other high omega - 6 oils.

If you open up my closet you will find that the majority of it is blue and white with a very small percentage of colored pieces.

Observe and Report ranks as one of those kinds of movies that I think will hit only a very small fraction of the viewing audience, and the majority of those who see it will find increasingly abhorrent.

I grew up in a majority Jewish town, but spent college in an environment with a very small Jewish population, so I had already experienced moving to a place with a different culture.

Interead was a very small tech start - up company, with the majority of founding capital coming by its founder Neil Jones.

If the cover looks great and has a good «feel», you don't need to be able to read the text on the thumbnail, so don't stress it too much (the majority of professionally published books actually have very small text, only thrillers have huge cover text).

Making books available for library lending is an obligation which comes with the rights granted under copyright law, and is limited in very important ways which mean that it has relatively little effect on authors» earning power, and for the vast majority of them it makes up a very small proportion of their total income, so the zero - sum effect doesn't really kick in.

While Android - based tablets are selling very well, the vast majority of these are small, inexpensive models with razor - thin profit margins.

The majority of your income goes to paying creditors and you are left with a very small amount of money to survive.

I like the Dividend Aristocrats but a majority of them have very small yields.

The vast majority of consultants view active management as an important or very important investment approach for emerging market equity (94 %), non-U.S. bonds (92 %), U.S. bonds (88 %), infrastructure / MLPs (87 %), U.S. small cap equity (82 %) and non-U.S. developed market equity (82 %);

The biggest thing I learned from this extremely challenging experience is that in most cases it is not dog's or owner's fault, but the problem lies in lack of proper information and understanding of this breed — and unfortunately majority of dog training guides do not address these small - small things that are very important for responsible pet ownership.

In comparison to the large majority of other travel enthusiasts out there, I only have a very small handful of credit cards and don't practice the art of credit card churning that seems popular these days.

The team is very small; we've been three people for the majority of development, and the biggest we've been is six!

You ignored the majority of the findings to focus on a very small subsection.

Yet I know, I cherry - picked, as you said I «ignored the majority of the findings to focus on a very small subsection.»