Example sentences for: majorities

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

  • The administration developed a proposal that eventually passed both houses of Congress by large majorities and was signed into law on October 26.

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

  • (Oregon voters have approved the suicide measure twice, with majorities of 51 percent and 60 percent.)

  • 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.

  • You point out quite correctly that at the very top levels the resentment is very muted and hardly visible (see the huge majorities of students in elite colleges who say diversity is a good thing and we should have more, in the Bowen and Bok book, The Shape of the River ).


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