Sentences with phrase «with near majorities»

Everywhere, except in the most exceptional cases, we have seen the resistance of suburban white parents to sending their children to inner - city schools with near majorities or majorities of black children.

Seven in ten (70 %) Kentuckians support educational choice with a near majority (47 %) «strongly» in favor and just 26 % opposed.

Not exact matches

The only thing that seems certain — it was stated by Colin Powell when he said, «This nation must be very committed with minorities because minorities will become majorities in the near future.»

Three - tenths of the nation's crude oil refining capacity is located in Texas, with the majority of the refineries «clustered near ports along the Gulf Coast,» according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's website.

Only a small minority (roughly 15 to 20 per cent) of middle - income Canadians retiring without an employer pension plan have saved anywhere near enough for retirement and the vast majority of these families with annual incomes of $ 50,000 or more will be hard pressed to save enough in their remaining period to retirement (less than 10 years) to avoid significant fall in income.

SoftBank Group Corp. the majority owner of Sprint, is willing to accept a deal that would value Sprint at or near its market price, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Since a near - majority already agreed on the goals, there was a solid basis for negotiating details with holdouts.

Hitler was born with little money, and the majority of jewish families that lived near and around germany HAD been wealthy, and so one could argue that Hitler was just looking for funding and a back reason to make his sheep like followers do his deeds so he played on his peoples misunderstandings and cultural separations.

Having an ongoing relationship with a majority or near - majority of families in most communities creates a unique opportunity for churches that is shared by no other social institution.

Near the beginning of this process, a majority of the faculty would not have supported the college's reengagement with its Christian heritage.

Arrange bread in skillet in single layer, with majority of crusted pieces near center, crust side up.

The majority of Rockview Farms» dairy products — milk, ice cream, buttermilk, sour cream, yogurt and strained Greek yogurt — are produced with milk from cows at its three farms, two of which are in southern California and one in Nevada near the California border.

The vast majority are brief «have your say» submissions and the majority of those oppose the imposition of road tolls (with most using near - identical wording and pointing to s 92 of the Constitution).

As a lot of commenters have mentioned, despite us playing with nowhere near the fluidity and intent we've shown previously we've still managed to create more chances than by far and away the majority of the league.

An orgasmic birth is unsettling in a lot of ways because 1) we still think of women's sexuality as a shameful thing to begin with, let alone during something as sacred as birth and 2) the majority of individuals who give birth definitely do not come anywhere near feeling pleasure during the delivery.

In 2015, the UK Parliament was projected to come out about even between the top two parties, but the conservatives won by over 5 %, ending up with the majority (which was considered to be a near 0 % chance possibility as the day began), this summer Brexit passed (considered almost certain to fail as the day began, ended up passing by 4 %), and last month the Colombian Peace Referendum failed (after being consistently polled to pass by about 10 %).

Nonetheless, the Lords passed the Parliament Act 1911 when faced with the threat, obtained from a narrowly convinced new King (George V, Edward VII having died on 6 May 1910, seven days after the Budget was passed), that it would be acceptable to flood the House of Lords with hundreds of new Liberal Party peers to give that party a majority or near - majority there.

With his slim majority, I suspect the Prime Minister will be given a near - permanent headache by Peter Bone and the Tory backbench awkward squad in the run - up to that referendum.

Labour currently holds the seat with a near 9,000 majority vote and would be likely to retain it at the forthcoming election, with a resignation now ahead of a national poll preferable to a departure mid-way through the next parliament when Purnell's move would have triggered a byelection, more high profile and potentially more perilous for the party.

But for now, a more near - term goal for Democrats is taking over the state Senate, where the Republicans have a thin majority, but an alliance with the Independent Democratic Conference that could preserve their power.

Most Americans think the resignation of Michael Flynn as the White House national security adviser last week is worthy of a congressional investigation, a new HuffPost / YouGov survey finds, with a near - majority saying his conduct could be indicative of a broader issue.

Now, with confidant Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) hanging on to his seat by a thread, the Brooklynite is nearing the goal line of his long game.

At last month's Scottish Parliament election, the nearest equivalent seat, Greenock and Inverclyde, was held by Labour with a majority of 511 over the SNP.

ALBANY — Ohio Gov. John Kasich, huddling with state legislators in and near the Capitol as he campaigns across the state, said his fellow Republicans would lose their narrow majority in the state Senate if Donald Trump or Ted Cruz lead the Republican ticket in November.

Britton found that the vast majority of her group with near - death experience entered REM sleep at 110 minutes.

New Jersey neighborhoods with a majority of black residents are on average twice as close as other neighborhoods to major industrial sources of air pollution, the researchers found, and more likely to be near busy highways that produce high concentrations of harmful particulate matter.

Clea Kolster, lead author and PhD student with the Grantham Institute at Imperial, said: «Revenue from oil does make the deployment of CCS far more attractive in the near term by providing the majority of capital in early years before carbon dioxide tax incentives have increased sufficiently to overtake oil revenue.

Notably, the majority of the most highly conserved non-coding sequences in mammalian genomes are clustered near a small subset of genes with important roles in development.

Away from the Galactic plane, vast majority of the dots are galaxies, color coded to indicate distance, with blue dots representing the nearest galaxies in the 2Mass survey, and red dots indicating the most distant survey galaxies that lie at a redshift near 0.1.

He has climbed in expeditions on the highest peaks of the seven continents, including Mount Everest, with the majority of climbs in the Cascade Mountains, near his home.

Light therapy has been found to be efficacious for the majority of people suffering from SAD and involves sitting in front of or near a light therapy box that emits 10,000 lux of brightness, for approximately 30 minutes, with eyes open, but without looking at the light.

Regardless, even if this approximation is not quite accurate, we can clearly see that there is nowhere near an 8-fold difference in the majority of women with PCOS» AMH levels in pregnancy compared to control women (see below).

Step 6: Apply matte pink blush to your cheekbones — the majority of the color should be deposited near the back towards your ear with just a light dusting on the apples of your cheeks.

The majority of Russian women are educated and have a university or college degree, so they also want to have an educated man near with her who was a similar background.

He's a thin character that stands out in the otherwise no - nonsense fast - cutting action of the film's investigative thread, and he's saddled with the majority of the preachy life - lesson monologues as the film nears its conclusion.

With a majority of drive time spent on the freeway, the ATS Coupe achieved an average of 25.4 mpg fuel economy, near the middle of its 21 mpg city and 30 mpg highway range.

Along with its near - twin, the Total Stock Market Index DWCF, +0.07 % I believe the S&P 500 represents the majority, perhaps even 60 %, of all U.S. equity mutual fund and ETF holdings.

In a classic paper, it was shown that the vast majority of dogs have excellent vision with neither significant near or far - sightedness.

Salang is blessed with the best shore diving on Tioman Island, and is the nearest village to the majority of the off shore dive sites.

Hilarious how Sony can have 3 average E3s in a row with games that are still nowhere near release in 2018 and majority of N4G conveniently forgets.

But as the catalyst, Street Fighter IV has enjoyed the majority of the success, its near - perfect fusion of old and new striking a chord with returning fight fans and newcomers alike.

I began thinking about Brown's near invisibility when I went to his exhibition at DC Moore, his second at this spacious New York gallery, of paintings spanning from 1978 to 1995, with the majority done during the»80s and»90s.

In response, we have shown that whilst the majority of a company's NPV may be due to near - term (the next 10 - 15 years) cash flows from proven reserves, if these cash flows are recycled and invested in new future production then the value is simply rolled over with greater risk.

Aristotle and Isaac Newton ridiculed the possibility of comets, and the great majority of Amercian academics boycotted the Macmillan's textbooks in order to suppress Immanuel Velikovsky's exquisitely reasoned and meticulously documented theory that Earth had been subjected to catastrophic near collisions with Venus and Mars between 1500 and 700 BC.

The majority of Chinese ADSs were in the red, with Canadian Solar and Trina Solar down 12 % and 6 %, respectively, after liquidity concerns from Yingli projected uncertainty on the near - term lending environment in China.

The majority of DG solar projects are located in China's more populated central and eastern regions and therefore have fewer problems with curtailment or transmission losses, with power being consumed at or near to the point of generation.

We agree with Al Gore, James Hansen and the overwhelming majority of climate scientists that the continued buildup of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere portends worldwide cataclysmic change in the very near future.

With most of the media outlets focusing on the stratospheric $ 160,000 salaries for this year's crop of first - year associates, it's easy to forget that the majority of law firm graduates don't earn anywhere near that much.

Bennett says that «for anyone who might not share the political views of the majority, the opposite is true: the nearer government is to us, the more it can intrude in our lives and interfere with our liberty.»

Volume isn't a problem either, with a combined 82 watts of built - in amplification (41 watts for highs, 41 watts for lows) providing enough power to fill the vast majority of spaces, and certainly enough for near field listening — what these speakers were designed for.