• All incumbent Democrats running for Congress are happy to be in the majority, but now they are trying to hide from the voters.

    CNN: Democrats, show some fight!

  • The company now says red cans will be in the majority by Christmas and that there likely won't be any white cans on store shelves by the time February rolls around.

    WSJ: A Frosty Reception for Coca-Cola's White Christmas Cans

  • In November, it said smoking would be banned in the majority of public places within the next four years.

    BBC: NEWS | Health | Tobacco smoke dulls child brains

  • The Republicans knew that they were going to be coming in as the majority.

    WHITEHOUSE: Twitter Town Hall

  • The Democratic Republic of Congo will continue to be in turmoil, the majority of its citizens will continue to suffer and outsiders will continue to prosper from its riches.

    BBC: African viewpoint: Leaping into 2012

  • Thus, even if Mitt Romney is elected president, Barack Obama will still be in the White House when the master deal must be struck, the Democrats will still have a majority in the Senate, and the GOP will still be able to filibuster and control the House.

    CNN: U.S. economy heading straight for the cliff

  • They decided, among other things, that the trial should be held in Cambodia and that the majority of the judges should be Cambodian, not foreigners.

    ECONOMIST: Cambodia

  • By then, England was the first country in the world where the majority of the population would be living in cities (albeit riddled with tuberculosis, for which a winter visit to the Alps in due course became de rigueur).

    ECONOMIST: Mountaineering lore

  • Nor can they be found in the vast majority of smart phones.

    FORBES: New MacBook Air Shows How Intel Plans To Keep The PC Alive

  • They are on a one-year starter tenancy, which is likely to be extended to five years - a tenancy arrangement set to be brought in by the majority of councils in the East.

    BBC: East of England councils move from lifetime tenancies

  • The BBC's Alex Last in Lagos says the results will be scrutinised to see whether the majority of people live in the predominantly Muslim north or the Christian and animist south.

    BBC: NEWS | Africa | Nigeria shuts down for key census

  • The Justice Department is confident its settlement administrator "will be successful in locating the vast majority of the victims and is committed to ensuring that best efforts are made to do so, " spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa said.

    WSJ: Victims Sought in Countrywide Case

  • The WHO says that in most affected countries, the majority of cases appear to be occurring in young people, around the ages of 12 to 17, although some reports suggest it is mainly older people who have required hospital treatment.

    BBC: Swine flu 'reaches 160 countries'

  • If there is a critical flaw in any OS, a fix should be able to reach the majority of customers in a short timescale and be easily installed.

    FORBES: Android Lags Behind Apple As iOS6 Adoption Shows The Benefit Of A Tight Ecosystem

  • If Mr Obama's luck holds, the passionate intensity of the conservatives might just cancel out that of the progressives and so affirm, in the eyes of the majority in the centre, his own claim to be reaching for precious common ground in the tricky terrain of divided government.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington: Barack Houdini Obama | The

  • And surely he knows that one additional Republican senator beyond the increase in three that seem to be in the bag will change the majority.

    FORBES: The Silver Lining In the SCOTUS Ruling? A Restrained EPA

  • And chances are good that if she pursues a career as a physician or dentist, she and the other women in her class will be the majority if not superior sex.

    FORBES: Women Could Be Superior Sex... But They Aren't!

  • If the Social Democrats were to win only a narrow majority in the Bundestag, along with their preferred coalition partners, the Greens, Mr Lafontaine might be dispatched to become the majority's leader in parliament.

    ECONOMIST: Germany

  • Some argue that within ten years there will be a Catholic majority in the north.

    ECONOMIST: Why peace is now possible

  • According to the person familiar with the proposals, the new border security requirements call for 100 percent surveillance and a 90 percent apprehension rate of border crossers or would-be crossers in sectors where the majority of unauthorized entries take place.

    NPR: AP Source: Senate Plan To Stiffen Border Security

  • For example, a somewhat aggressive team salary cap, coupled with a higher minimum salary for players and revenue sharing that redistributes money from large-market teams to small-market teams, may be in the interest of a majority of owners and players, but would be unacceptable to the folks at the table.

    FORBES: Not all interested parties are at the bargaining table.

  • The bottom line is that there is certainly work to be done over at espnW. I think the majority of that work needs to be in how the site is marketed.

    FORBES: espnW: A Marketing Message Gone Wrong

  • If you can get a majority in the House and you can get a majority in the Senate, then we should be able to pass a bill.

    WHITEHOUSE: Statement by the President

  • That might be the reason why, in recent years, the majority of the bowlers with suspect actions are spinners, even though it would seem more obviously tempting for a fast bowler to throw, in order to gain extra speed.

    WSJ: Cricket's 'Chucking' Challenge

  • Although the technical membership of the UPFA may now be approaching the bare minimum of legislators needed to maintain a majority in the 225-seat parliament, the government is likely to be able to find a comfortable number of MPs to back its legislative agenda from among the numerous smaller parties in Sri Lanka.

    ECONOMIST: Wobbly Sri Lanka | The

  • The bad news for the Democrats may also be that they will have a majority in the U.S. Senate.

    NPR: Compromise Key to Progress in Democratic Senate

  • According to the RSPB, around 650 Cetti's warblers are thought to be resident in the UK, with the majority nesting along the south coasts of England and Wales.

    BBC: Cetti's warbler

  • This election will be the first since the SNP won a majority in the Scottish Parliament.

    BBC: Local government elections 2012 debate

  • You'd think determining the basis of a security would be easy, and in fact, in the majority of cases where a customer buys and sells stocks and mutual funds within one account at one brokerage house, it would be.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Although in the Institute's study only a small proportion of managers think that technologies such as holograms, robots and bio-chips will be used to drive business efficiency in the next 10 years, the overwhelming majority think that virtual business will be commonplace and this will lead to increased virtual contact.

    CNN: How to prepare your workforce for the next decade

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