Example sentences for: majorities

How can you use “majorities” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I am still concerned about the risk of setting a precedent for opposition majorities in Congress to remove presidents for purely political reasons.

  • Bolstering that average were hefty majorities of two normally pacific groups: women (74 percent) and Democrats (81 percent).

  • Results that don't fit the theory, such as the defeat of Matt Fong in the California Senate race, have simply been ignored--as has the fact that the Republicans retained their majorities in both houses.

  • At the end of the book, Scalia, defending his prediction that judges will carry democracy too far, contends that the individual rights favored by judges tend to be the same ones championed by popular majorities.

  • What happened in the Senate, the papers report, is that in successive votes to force floor consideration of two campaign reform measures--one simply a ban of the unregulated campaign use of donations made to the national political parties ("soft money"), the other a broader bill that also would have tightened rules about "issue ads" that actually function in support of particular candidates--the pro forces achieved slim majorities, but fell short of the 60 votes required to cut off a filibuster against the measures.


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