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• n  the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part
  the majority of his customers prefer it
• n  (elections) more than half of the votes
• n  the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs

• How long has it been? You have to go all the way back to 1937 to find the last American President who enjoyed what was, in practice, a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate .
• A majority (61%) say they would support a government mandate on lowering power plant emissions, and 87% support tax breaks to develop water, wind and solar power.
• You may remember that back in May, Gallup released a poll showing that for the first time, a majority of Americans in their survey described themselves as "pro-life" rather than .

• bulk
• absolute majority
• legal age

• minority

News & Articles

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• Bernanke: Majority of Fed Officials Don't Expect to Sell MBS
  Bernanke: Majority of Fed Officials Don't Expect to Sell MBS
  June 19, 2013 - Nasdaq
• Majority of Utah Voters Want Swallow to Resign, Poll Numbers Show
  (KUTV) A majority of Utah voters say they want Attorney General John Swallow to resign. The new poll numbers were released Monday and show many in the state believe Swallow should step down. A BYU nonpartisan research center conducted the poll and posted the results on Utah Data Points. ...
  June 18, 2013 - KUTV Salt Lake City
• Small majority in favor of immigration bill currently before Senate
  While a small majority of Americans are in favor of the immigration bill currently before the U.S. Senate, according to a new national poll the old and young don't see eye to eye on the issue.
  June 18, 2013 - WJXT Jacksonville

Quotes

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• Samuel Alito in Allentown Morning Call
  In his dissent, Justice Samuel Alito said, "Brushing aside inconvenient precedent, the (majority) arms public educational institutions with a handy weapon for suppressing the speech of unpopular groups - groups to which, as Hastings candidly puts...
• Ed Miliband in AFP
  This was a chaotic process dogged by procedural games,Miliband wrote. "The procedural wrangling was, in fact, a cover for points of serious, substantive disagreement. The vast majority of countries, developed and developing, believe that...
• James Henry Webb in USA Today
  The majority of the nation no longer supports the way this war is being fought,said Webb, a Vietnam veteran chosen to give the formal Democratic response to Bush. "We need a new direction."