Sentences with phrase «won over the majority»

Backblaze founder and CEO Gleb Budman acknowledges that B2 probably won't win over the majority of storage workloads now running on other platforms, especially if users need very high performance or computing located near their data.

Apart from ability, and in some cases, a talent for intrigue, all failed to win over the majority of their parliamentary colleagues or their Party at large.

Mr. Spitzer, a better known candidate who spent millions from his personal fortune on television advertising, won over a majority of black and Hispanic New Yorkers, and voters making under $ 50,000 a year.

And claims about winning over the majority of a population in any given state are entirely untested.

Not exact matches

Though wealth comes suddenly for a few, the great majority of people will win with money by having a «tortoise over hare» approach to money.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

As soon as the election is over, those who have won the majority undertake to act according to their speech, while the minority, abstaining from action, must satisfy itself with talk in order to prepare for the next election.

There is also much of the Word that suggests (perhaps vaguely and mysteriously) that this redemption will be complete (not partial; which would suggest the power of sin, Satan or death will win out over the majority).

But things have changed dramatically in the past decade... perhaps because so many of my fellow ministers went through the same situation... so there is hope yet for other issues... It seems the way of the majority usually wins over time...

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

As the Owner, Board and the majority of Arsenal fans say» Nothing wrong with doing the same thing over and over» Why change the winning strategy?

It had the opposite effect, it told the boss and the board that a minute minority were making allot of noise while the majority can be won over with better game results.

Unlike many of his predecessors, Pochettino has won the backing of the vast majority of the White Hart Lane faithful, buoyed by the Argentine's faith in young players, the League Cup final appearance, and those eye - catching triumphs over Chelsea and Arsenal in the Premier League.

The Arsenal board don't want Le Prof to go now, not before in 2 to 3 years time will they accept he can go if still he doesn't win any of the majority of Arsenal fans most sort after 2 titles of the PL & the CL which have eluded the club for over a decade since Arsenal last won the PL and reached the CL final in 2006.

We have 6 or 7 of our kids in the lower league who the majority of have won over their respective fans in a matter of 3 or 4 games so we pretty obviously needed some players to step in.

Mesut Ozil features for the majority of Germany's 4 - 1 win over Azerbaijan last night, and is expected to be available to start for Arsenal next weekend.

Six of seven teams are within a game of the lead in the loss column, but thanks to wins over Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, and Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech not only has the best overall division record, the Hokies also own a vast majority of the potential tie - breakers.

This is partly due to the Bulldogs» big upset win over Texas A&M last weekend, but it's still very early and I'd fully expect the majority to end up on Bama by the time this game closes.

He won more for Chelsea over two decades than the majority of English clubs have won in their entire existence.

Despite only playing on Thursday in the Europa League, Arsenal were able to rest the majority of their first - team stars in the 4 - 2 win over BATE Borisov.

Michel Platini's proposal for an all - over Euro 2020 will fail to win majority support among the European federation's 53 members, according to one of the orginal bidding contenders.

He has not been shifted from the team since, putting in a gargantuan 88 - minute shift in the win over Leicester City, when all that was missing from his high - octane performance was the goal his efforts merited, and then playing the majority of last week's defeat at Arsenal, where he was the width of a goalframe from finding the net.

Parents and caregivers over the age of majority in your state or province of the U.S. or Canada (excluding Quebec) are eligible to win — no experience with cloth diapers necessary!

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 %).

Cameron's failure to win over Britain clearly proved decisive in preventing an overall Tory majority.

It was their failure to win over these people that cost them an overall majority at the last election.

At the general election in 2015, he had won the seat with a 24,000 majority over Labour.

The 72 - year - old Akufo - Addo beat President John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) by over one million votes to win the presidency at the third attempt while his party, the NPP snatched almost 50 of the NDC's seats to win an overwhelming parliamentary majority in the elections.

At the same time, the Moral Majority was started as an attempt to start winning over fundamentalist Christian voters to the republican party.

The government won the vote over Mr Hunt's future with a majority of 38.

In the end, they did not even manage to win seats like Brentford & Isleworth, where Ruth Cadbury's Labour majority went from less than 1,000 to over 12,000.

Since 16 (a)(2) prevents any delegates from offering their support to other candidates prior to voting, 40 (b) prevents names from being added on the fly, and 40 (e) requires repeated votes until someone wins, there are only two possible outcomes: Either the front - runner picks up enough delegates on the second vote (once they're unbound) to push them over the majority, or the convention is deadlocked.

It's been over 20 years since they won a majority, nine years since Cameron became leader and four years since they failed to win an election against a hugely unpopular Labour government.

Klein is a key individual for mainline Democrats to win over should they achieve a governing, 32 - member majority.

Nevertheless, the Senate Republicans and Democrats exhausted their main campaign accounts, and slug fest resulted in no side emerging a clear winner in the sense that they have firm control over the chamber (Democrats have already won a majority of the seats giving them a numerical advantage and two races remain undecided).

Then, when Democrats still won a majority, he cut a backroom deal that allowed Republicans to take over the State Senate through the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC)-- a group of breakaway Democrats who voted with the Republicans to hand them control, and with it, the power to block almost all of our key Democratic legislative priorities.

David Cameron failed to win a Commons majority, despite being up against an unpopular Labour premier who had just presided over the worst recession in living memory.

The GOP won back control of the Senate in last year's elections and noted that the previous Democratic majority handed over a $ 7.7 million deficit in January.

Public outrage over Thatcher's poll tax, which John Major had been slow to abolish despite widespread protest and promises of change, led the Liberal Democrats to a storming victory, overturning Conservative Nigel Evans» 20,000 vote majority to win the seat.

UPDATE2: Several WFP types noted a few other wins over the past year that I overlooked, including the ouster of former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. by Gustavo Rivera in a Democratic primary and the passage of so - called «Green Jobs» legislation.

Here's my suggestion: Zac Goldsmith, who won a stonking majority of over 23,000 in the once - marginal Richmond Park, for Tory candidate for London mayor and then, if he wins, Esther into Richmond Park in a by - election.

Labour hasn't yet been able to make significant inroads into the SNP support base, which remains at the same level that delivered last year's majority, and needs to focus on winning over voters who backed the SNP at last year's election.

The current list of candidates — Jeremy Corbyn, Angela Eagle and Owen Smith — all have fine qualities, but none of them is likely to pull off the difficult task of winning over Labour members, a majority of the PLP and the electorate.

With House Republicans winning their largest majority since 1929, the posturing to challenge National Republican Congressional Committee Greg Walden may be over.

Winning over the middle ground is the only way to win majorities in the trade unions and Labour Party on individual issues.

If Democrats win both seats they'll have a numeric majority and a chance to take over the Senate for the first time since 2009.

David Cameron, prime minister of a majority government, had to carefully time his parliamentary vote on airstrikes over Syria in order to win.

In the final results, the Conservatives received almost 42 % (a lead of 7.6 % over Labour) and won their fourth successive general election, though they now had a 21 - seat majority compared to the 102 - seat majority they had gained in the election five years previously.

He faces a tough battle to win Stockport which he was selected for in 2015 and where Labour's Anne Coffey has a majority of just over 10,000.

The Conservative party has not won an outright majority for over 20 years and they're currently even further from that aim than they were three years ago.