A democrat is a free citizen who yields to the will of the majority.

The bill was passed by an overwhelming majority.

The bill passed by a small majority of 10 votes.

A majority of students dislike history.

The majority of the committee voted against the bill.

An overwhelming majority voted to abolish the brutal punishment.

Why is the politician trying to kill off the opinions of the majority?

The clause provides that all decisions shall be made by majority vote.

Joe spends the majority of his time in sports.

The majority of the successful candidates were university graduates.

The majority of my patients come to me from out of town.

Our plan was objected to by the majority.

We have a majority interest in the company.

The bill was passed by a majority, although the Socialist Party was strongly opposed to it.

A poll shows that an overwhelming majority is in favor of the legislation.

In most elections, whichever candidate gets the majority of the votes, wins the election.

The majority was for him.

Majority rule is a basic principle of democracy.

The majority of big banks are introducing this system.

A majority voted against the bill.

The majority of the committee were against the plan.

The majority of people marry sooner or later.

A majority of Japanese workers plan to take more than three consecutive days of summer vacation.

The president shall be selected by majority vote.

The great majority is for the project.

The majority of the middle-aged people felt anxiety for their future.

The majority of his income goes to pay his rent.

He won the election by a large majority.

He dissented from the opinion of the majority.

They commanded a majority in the Diet.

They elected him mayor by a large majority.

The government got their majority at the last election.

Together, the developers may amend this constitution, provided a 3:1 majority is in agreement.

The majority of students here are diligent.

My being male and white also removed huge obstacles that a majority of Americans then faced.

Democracy is the dictatorship of the majority.

Uyghurs comprise the majority in Kashgar.

The majority of Japanese temples are made out of wood.

Though very outspoken, purists do not comprise the majority on Tatoeba.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.

I don't believe that some day a majority of the world's population will speak Esperanto.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

We all live, at any rate for a time, and the majority of us always, in polygamy. Consequently, as each man needs many women, nothing is more just than to let him, nay, make it incumbent upon him to provide for many women. By this means woman will be brought back to her proper and natural place as a subordinate being.

The majority of large Japanese companies depend on exports.

I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.

Nearly all siheyuans had their main buildings and gates facing south for better lighting, so a majority of hutongs run from east to west.

Normally speaking, Chinese people consider rice to be an important food; the majority of Westerners consider fast food to be an important food.

Before the conquest by the Arabians, the majority of the Persians were Zoroastrians, but there were also Jews and Christians. So, who could imagine today that Iranians have Jewish or Christian ancestors?

The vast majority of high school students I know can't read an unknown word and pronounce the letters in the right order, let alone pronounce it correctly or naturally.

They believed they were in the majority.

He had the majority he needed.

None of the candidates got a majority of the votes.

Protestants were in the majority.

The majority of voters liked what Roosevelt said.

She spends a majority of her time taking care of her children.

What do you spend a majority of your time doing?

Tom spends a majority of his time helping Mary.

The majority of the Swiss can speak three or four languages.

The United Nations have proclaimed vast lists of human rights, but the great majority of humanity have no other than the rights to see, hear and stay quiet.

I have no strong opinion about the matter, so whatever the majority thinks is good is OK with me.

I saw some English female soldiers in yesterday night's news reel. For some, you couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman, but the majority were rather feminine, and it didn't feel that grotesque.

In the meantime, the majority of the Germans demand Wulff's resignation.

In the meantime, the majority of the Germans demand that Wulff resign.

The majority didn't accept the proposal.

The majority of the Americans are descended from immigrants.

"I love you" is the title of the majority of songs that anybody sings in their life.

Where programmers use semi-colons every day, the majority of people only use them in emoticons.

At least one author believes that out of the world's 7 billion people in the early 21st century, perhaps 1.6 billion can speak English and the vast majority of those speak only basically.

The vast majority of North Americans know English only at a mediocre level.

It is safe to wager that every public idea and every accepted convention is foolish because it has suited the majority.

There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.

In the name of the Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, Claudio Soarez Rocha expressed admiration for the continuing effort which Esperanto-speaking people throughout the world are always making, for the greater spread of Esperanto. He wrote, amongst other things,"We know that in the history of mankind, there have been languages that have become intrusive as a result of political power, such as Latin, or to a certain extent French and lately, English. We very much wish, in fact, that one day Esperanto could be accepted by the majority of the nations, as a language adopted to facilitate communication without linguistic privileges."

The vast majority of children love ice cream.

The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion.

A majority of the homeless were underwhelmed by the meager portions of thin soup and day-old bread that the church had to offer.

Although there was once believed to be a causative relationship between syphilis and artistic genius, I would hope that the vast majority of modern artists and writers are reasonable enough to avoid becoming infected just on the off chance that neurosyphilis dementia might improve the quality of their work.

The Arabian peninsula has long been accepted as the original Semitic Urheimat by a majority of scholars.

The majority of those men worked in the mine.

The majority of the songs became uninteresting.

They had the majority in Parliament.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

The majority know how to use a knife.

The majority of his clientele are poor people.

So-called "foreign" words, i.e. those which the majority of languages have taken from one source, are used in Esperanto without modification, acquiring only Esperanto spelling; but when faced with a number of words derived from one root, it is better to leave only the fundamental word unmodified and from this create the derivatives according to the rules of Esperanto.

The majority of animals have skulls.

Nowadays, the majority of European countries is ruled by social democrats, but there is a noticeable increase of right-wing extremism.

"I consider this fair, since effort will get one farther in life than ease of understanding anyway." "Says the man that seems to have skated by through a majority of life on ease of understanding...?"

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority, have always done just the opposite.

Emma was quite easily the nicest user I've ever met here, and I've met quite a number of rather nice people in this community! In fact, the majority of you are quite nice, but Emma took it to a new level.

The new contract was ratified by a majority of only 56 percent.

A vast majority of people approve of the plan.

Even though South Tyrol is in Italy, the majority of the population speaks German.

The vast majority of Russians in no way felt any effects of the sanctions imposed on Russia by the western countries.

In this country, the majority of the population practices Sunni Islam.

In this country, the majority of the population professes Sunni Islam.

In this country, the majority of the population espouses Sunni Islam.

"Sir, we've found this and we needed you to name it." "Pineapple." "But we figured we might just as well call it "ananas" since the majority of the world refers to it as—" "Pineapple." "But sir—" "Pine. Apple."

Tom is the majority shareholder in the company.

The bill was approved by an overwhelming majority.