The Bill was then sent up to the House of Lords, a majority in which was known to be hostile to it. |
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Prior to 1902, the prime minister sometimes came from the House of Lords, provided that his government could form a majority in the Commons. |
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The referendum was held across all four countries of the United Kingdom, as well as in Gibraltar, as a single majority vote. |
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This would prove the last time the Liberals won a majority in their own right. |
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The three Maritime provinces are each entirely south of the parallel, but the vast majority of Canadian territory lies north of it. |
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In some cases, the head of state may represent one political party but the majority in the National Assembly is of a different party. |
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A majority of residents of Hong Kong have no religious affiliation, professing a form of agnosticism or atheism. |
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Northern Ireland had a majority Protestant population and opted out as expected. |
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The majority of plunder was in the form of cargo and ship's equipment with medicines the most highly prized. |
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All Liberals were outraged when Conservatives used their majority in the House of Lords to block reform legislation. |
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The Conservatives, for example, won a majority in the 1859 general election in Ireland. |
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The majority of Afghans, among all ethnic groups including Pashtuns, stated that the overthrowing of the Taliban was a good thing. |
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In the United Kingdom general election, 2015, Labour held Newport West with a reduced majority of 3,510 votes over the Conservative Party. |
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After the 2012 elections, Rufus Ewing of the Progressive National Party won a narrow majority of the elected seats and was appointed premier. |
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The majority of the company's production at its Busan plant is exported under the Renault badge. |
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Hong Kong's Han majority originate mainly from the Guangzhou and Taishan regions in Guangdong province. |
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The Labour Party under Harold Wilson won the October 1974 election by a tiny majority of only three seats. |
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The majority of the estimated 5,000 Muslims and 200 Hindu families living in Northern Ireland live in the Greater Belfast area. |
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Unionists, however, won a majority of seats in four of the nine counties of Ulster and affirmed their continuing loyalty to the United Kingdom. |
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It was at this point that Scottish Presbyterians became the majority community in the province. |
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Lord North held the post of Prime Minister with a Tory majority backing him, advocating military suppression of the American rebellion. |
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According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the majority of inmates held in federal prisons are convicted of drug offenses. |
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Although there were nearly 600 princely states, the great majority were very small and contracted out the business of government to the British. |
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This article became known as War Guilt clause as the majority of Germans felt humiliated and resentful. |
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The majority of the fleet was supplied by the UK, which provided 892 warships and 3,261 landing craft. |
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Labour formed a minority government and went on to win a narrow majority in the October 1974 general election. |
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The local council is Orkney Islands Council, one of only three Councils in Scotland with a majority of elected members who are independents. |
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The majority of other settlements are along the coast, including some popular resort towns, such as Rhyl, Llandudno and Pwllheli. |
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This is perhaps the most fundamental criticism of FPTP, that a large majority of votes may play no part in determining the outcome. |
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The overwhelming majority of Gibraltarians continue their studies at university level. |
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England has also been at all, but participated under the banner of Great Britain in the majority of the earlier tournaments. |
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The majority of the race therefore took place not on the actual Aintree Racecourse but instead in the adjoining countryside. |
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Several smaller airports exist throughout South Sudan, the majority consisting of little more than dirt runways. |
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At this time, the majority of the Chinese population in Hong Kong had no political representation in the British colonial government. |
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In addition, the Protestant population was more prominent in Ulster, with a majority in four counties. |
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As per section 19, the majority of the provisions of the Act came into force upon Royal Assent. |
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The SNP gained an overall majority in the election, winning 69 from 129 seats, thereby gaining a mandate to hold an independence referendum. |
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Welsh was the majority language in Cardiff from the 13th century until the city's explosive growth in the Victorian era. |
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The Conservatives won an overall majority in the election and formed the government of the United Kingdom. |
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In most areas with an oceanic climate, precipitation comes in the form of rain for the majority of the year. |
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The great majority of Tories refused to support the Jacobites publicly, although there were numerous quiet supporters. |
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Secondly, the majority of the Gaelic Irish remained in their native areas, but were now only allowed worse land than before the plantation. |
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When one party has an absolute majority in the House of Commons, the monarch appoints the leader of that party as prime minister. |
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Though these events diminished Walpole's popularity, they failed to shake his majority in Parliament. |
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After a surge in female labor participation over the previous decade, by 1985 the majority of women aged 16 and over were employed. |
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As of 2007 Women now work mostly outside the home and receive a majority of bachelor's degrees. |
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The majority shareholder was ENIC International Ltd, an investment company established by the British billionaire Joe Lewis. |
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The Reform Bill was again brought before the House of Commons, which agreed to the second reading by a large majority in July. |
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Arian Christology was not a majority view among Unitarians in Poland, Transylvania or England. |
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Disraeli wanted the power a majority would bring, and felt he could gain it later by leaving the Liberals in office now. |
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The majority of the school's boarding houses were constructed in Victorian times, when the number of boys increased dramatically. |
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The president appoints the cabinet according to the proposals of the prime minister, typically from the majority coalition in the Sejm. |
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According to some historians, the majority of British people were on Eden's side. |
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The result of these referendums was a large majority in both parts of Ireland in favour of the agreement. |
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On 30 October 2015, Cellino agreed a deal in principle with Leeds Fans Utd to sell a majority stake in the club. |
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This is especially true of the Outer Hebrides, where a slim majority speak the language. |
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There are almost 10,000 Sikhs in Scotland and the majority live in Glasgow. |
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The native language of the majority of people in South Wales is English, but there are many who also speak Welsh. |
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The majority of catalogue entries can be found on Explore the British Library, the Library's main catalogue, which is based on Primo. |
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Note that this system does not require that the winner have a majority but only a plurality. |
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The majority of colonists developed a strong sense of devotion to the Crown. |
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One of the ministers, the leader of the majority political party, is appointed premier by the governor. |
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The Conservative majority meant that Cameron was able to fulfil a manifesto commitment to renegotiate British membership of the European Union. |
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The majority of the Yorkshire Regiment is now composed of soldiers from the north and eastern areas of Yorkshire. |
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Therefore, until the end of the 17th century the majority of books and almost all diplomatic documents were written in Latin. |
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The horses are much cheaper, as the majority are geldings and have no breeding value. |
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Currently the international community comprises around 200 sovereign states, the vast majority of which are represented in the United Nations. |
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In particular, the outcome of the 1951 referendum did not reflect the wishes of the majority of Baden's population. |
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The vast majority of the population are ethnic Faroese, of Norse and Celtic descent. |
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The majority of this revenue is generated by the licensing of offshore companies and related services. |
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For the great majority of listeners, other aspects of music, different from microtemporal PDs, must be relevant for triggering body movement. |
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The party, or parties, that hold the majority of seats in the Parliament forms the Scottish Government. |
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Today, Scotland has a population of just over five million people, the majority of whom consider themselves Scottish. |
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However, the majority of patients on median incomes or above are required to pay subsidised hospital charges. |
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He won the seat at the 1906 general election with a majority of 1,214 and represented the seat for two years. |
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Courses have a strong vocational element and the majority include a period of industrial or professional placement. |
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If the executive and the majority of the legislature are from different political parties, then stalemate can occur. |
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Between the 2004 and 2012 local elections, no individual political party held a majority on Cardiff County Council. |
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MacDonald's moves aroused great anger among a large majority of Labour Party activists who felt betrayed. |
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Labour later served in the wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after which it formed a majority government under Clement Attlee. |
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In May 2011, the SNP won an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament with 69 seats. |
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A devolved Scottish Parliament was created in 1999 after a clear majority voted in favour of devolution in the second referendum. |
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The vast majority of trains in the region are operated by South West Trains, Great Western Railway and CrossCountry. |
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Balliol was named king by a majority on 17 November 1292 and on 30 November he was crowned King of Scots at Scone Abbey. |
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In parts of Germany, Switzerland and Austria, a majority sympathized with the Radical Reformation despite intense persecution. |
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Hussites made up the vast majority of the population, and Lutheranism also gained a substantial following. |
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In a makeshift court lasting only one day, over 500 men were tried and the majority sentenced to death. |
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It is the monarch's constitutional duty to appoint a Prime Minister who can command support of a majority in the House of Commons. |
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In 1996, a majority share in Lotus was sold to Proton, a Malaysian car company listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. |
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Priestley published several more scientific papers in Birmingham, the majority attempting to refute Lavoisier. |
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Here, the majority of types of modern animals appeared in the fossil record, as well as unique lineages that subsequently became extinct. |
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In the vast majority of large electric generating stations, turbines are directly connected to generators with no reduction gearing. |
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The current trend for lane markings is to intersperse retroreflective paint lines with reflectors as seen on the majority of American highways. |
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Utah is the only state where Mormonism is the religion of the majority of the population. |
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The majority of the other settlements can be classed as villages or small towns such as Much Wenlock. |
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The majority of Hindus reside in India, Nepal, Mauritius, the Caribbean, and Bali in Indonesia. |
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The majority of passengers between North and South Wales use the Marches line. |
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In Canada, debate has focused on whether the local majority language should be made the exclusive language of public business. |
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Provincial Schools consists of the vast majority of schools in Sri Lanka which are funded and controlled by the local governments. |
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The great majority of Anglicans are members of churches which are part of the international Anglican Communion, which has 85 million adherents. |
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He returned to opposition, before leading the party to a majority in the 1874 election. |
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With Gladstone's Liberal majority dominant in the Commons, Disraeli could do little but protest as the government advanced legislation. |
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There are some private undergraduate colleges, mostly engineering schools, but a majority of these are affiliated to public universities. |
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The majority of those accused were women, though in some regions the majority were men. |
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The majority of such universities are not entitled to award bachelor's degrees. |
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The majority of the victims came from disadvantaged groups such as prostitutes, the poor, the homeless, and criminals. |
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An overwhelming majority of Indians, with their consent, have their marriages arranged by their parents or other elders in the family. |
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The majority of bachelor's degrees are now honours degrees, although this has not always been the case historically. |
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The President of the European Council is appointed for a two and a half year term in a qualified majority vote of the European Council. |
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The majority of rooms come with internet access and access to the Imperial network. |
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My most earnest hope is that the Labour Party will win a clear majority in the next General Election. |
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The vast majority of fires are linked to the use of wood burners and faulty chimneys with degraded or poorly inserted or maintained flues. |
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The more rugged Highland region contains the majority of Scotland's mountainous terrain, including the highest peak, Ben Nevis. |
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As a result, the majority of the population live in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, surrounding the chief cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. |
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In the 17th century, Orcadians formed the overwhelming majority of employees of the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada. |
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Thus it is one of only three Councils in Scotland with a majority of elected members not representing a political party. |
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The majority of those who live away from home reside in Shawlands, Dennistoun and the West End of the city. |
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The majority of the climbing is on good quality granite, often slabby and sometimes a bit broken in nature. |
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Although no longer the majority shareholder, he still holds a significant financial interest. |
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The majority group listens to the commercially produced styles while the subcultures find a minority style to transmit their own values. |
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The Labour Party also held Newport East with an increased majority of 4,705 votes over the Conservative Party. |
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This ensures that the winner gains a majority of votes in the second round. |
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The majority of Scotland's home matches are played at the national stadium, Hampden Park. |
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It creates a number of constituencies in each of which O has an overwhelming majority of votes. |
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Despite controversial press coverage of his personal life, Eriksson was consistently popular with the majority of fans. |
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The vast majority of the population resides on Grand Cayman, followed by Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, respectively. |
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The majority of visitors stay on St Mary's, which has a concentration of holiday accommodation and other amenities. |
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This must be someone who could command a majority in a confidence vote in the House of Commons. |
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The majority of patients required a hemihepatectomy, extended resection, or multiple segmental resection. |
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The great majority of literary works in Old English that survive to today are written in the Roman alphabet. |
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A referendum in the UK on its membership of the European Union was held on 23 June 2016, with a majority of participants voting to leave. |
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Although the majority of journeys involving central London are made by public transport, car travel is common in the suburbs. |
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Faldo also brought more criticism upon himself by taking up the majority of his opening speech by talking about himself and his family. |
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Khan counter punched effectively from the outside after being surprised with Algieri's aggression majority of rounds in a fairly close contest. |
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They show that the majority of names used were derived from Common Brittonic. |
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The Byzantine Empire had granted the majority of free trading rights to Genoa. |
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The centuries would vote, one at a time, until a measure received support from a majority of the centuries. |
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The proposal should not take effect if within any of the affected territories a majority rejected the change. |
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In 1609, the great majority of the Morisco population of Spain was expelled. |
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Today the majority of ethnic Kven have little or no knowledge of the language. |
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The majority of students in upper secondary schools are women, although men represent the majority in higher education institutions. |
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The head of government is the Premier, usually the leader of the majority party in Parliament. |
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The majority of the surviving English motets of the fourteenth century are isoperiodic. |
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Two quarries were chosen from a list of 102, with the majority of the stone coming from the former. |
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The Whigs, a majority in Parliament, had expected to dominate the government, and were disappointed that William denied them this chance. |
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An Executive has yet to be formed following the 2017 election, which saw the unionist block lose its Assembly majority for the first time. |
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In Germany, practical reference works intended for the uneducated majority became popular in the 18th century. |
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Though faced with a hostile majority in Parliament, Pitt was able to solidify his position in a few months' time. |
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Addington, unable to face the combined opposition of Pitt and Fox, saw his majority gradually evaporate. |
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Parliament was dissolved, and the subsequent election gave the ministry a strong majority in the House of Commons. |
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Black males in the Northern states could vote, but the majority of African Americans lived in the South. |
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The Churchill Centre and Museum says the majority of records show his impediment was a lateral lisp, while Churchill's stutter is a myth. |
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Despite the Conservative landslide, his own majority fell by more than a thousand. |
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Gladstone began using the Liberal majority in the House of Commons to push through resolutions and legislation. |
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Help and counseling for smokers wanting to stop is being discontinued for the majority in many areas of England. |
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The vast majority of cancellations were through lack of beds for example because a more urgent case had arrived. |
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If the majority was against independence, Scotland would continue within the United Kingdom. |
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As Whitlam had a majority in the House of Representatives, Speaker Gordon Scholes appealed to the Queen to reverse Kerr's decision. |
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If one party obtains a majority of seats, then that party is entitled to form the Government. |
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It is currently the governing party, having won a majority of seats in the House of Commons at the 2015 general election. |
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A core of Eurosceptic MPs under Major used the small Conservative majority in Parliament to oppose Government policy on the Maastricht Treaty. |
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Between them, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats controlled 363 seats in the House of Commons, with a majority of 76 seats. |
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Labour went on to win the 1950 general election, but with a much reduced majority of five seats. |
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Labour also won a majority of seats in the local council elections of 2014, gaining 324 more councillors than they had before the election. |
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In the 2015 local elections, UKIP took control of Thanet District Council, its first majority control of a council. |
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Protestants have a slight majority in Northern Ireland, according to the latest Northern Ireland Census. |
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There are 533 English constituencies, which because of their large number, form an inbuilt majority in the House of Commons. |
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While only the majority opinion is considered precedential, an outvoted judge can still publish a dissenting opinion. |
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A district court, for example, could not rely on a Supreme Court dissent as a basis to depart from the reasoning of the majority opinion. |
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The vast majority of the Ministry of Justice's work takes place in England and Wales. |
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In the majority of unitary authorities an existing district council took over powers from the county council. |
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After the Second World War, the vast majority of British colonies and territories became independent, effectively bringing the empire to an end. |
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Seasonal swings are far lower than in the vast majority of the land areas at Liverpool's latitude in the rest of the world. |
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The charter trustees for the City of Bath make up the majority of the councillors on Bath and North East Somerset Council. |
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It was in this environment that the Coal Measures were formed, the source of the majority of Britain's extensive coal reserves. |
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Roman histories name the tribe that occupied the majority of Northern England as the Brigantes, or Highlanders. |
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Between 2000 and 2008, the majority of new jobs created in Northern England were for the government or paid for with public funds. |
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The majority of services are provided by First Bradford and Keighley Bus Company. |
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The sterling area effectively ended at this time when the majority of its members also chose to float freely against the pound and the dollar. |
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This category includes everything from light arms to heavy artillery, and the majority of producers are small. |
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In May 2011, BP announced that it had agreed to sell its majority interest in Wytch Farm to Perenco, which became the new operator. |
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The majority of peasant farmers in the tropics allow the calf to suckle before milking in order to obtain a let-down of milk. |
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Stetson discovered the Rhesus blood group system, which was found to be the cause of the majority of transfusion reactions up to that time. |
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The vast majority of these injuries can be prevented by wearing protective footwear when mowing. |
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This type of motor is now used for the vast majority of commercial applications. |
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As with all heat engines, the majority of primary energy must be emitted as waste heat at relatively low temperature. |
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Insects were particularly successful and even today make up the majority of animal species. |
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Today, the modern evolutionary synthesis is accepted by a vast majority of scientists. |
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However the majority of the smaller masts still stand, awaiting demolition before becoming a housing estate. |
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General Motors purchased a majority stake in 1925 and changed its name to the Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Company. |
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A bimaxillary operation with maxillary advancement and mandibular setback was carried out in the majority of the patients. |
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The majority of runic inscriptions from the Viking period are found in Sweden and date from the 11th century. |
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The spread of the English language has resulted in a vast majority of people of Gaelic ancestry being unable to speak a Goidelic language. |
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There are about 30,000 surviving lines of Old English poetry and about ten times that much prose, and the majority of both is religious. |
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The majority of the population in the south resides along the Indus River, with Karachi the most populous commercial city. |
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The majority of Bangladeshi Muslims are Sunni, followed by the Shia and Ahmadiya. |
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Indians form a majority of the population in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname. |
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Submissions sent directly to a publisher are referred to as unsolicited submissions, and the majority come from previously unpublished authors. |
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The vast majority of students in Ireland take the traditional Leaving Certificate. |
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Education is funded by tax payers at all levels except for the majority of graduate studies. |
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The majority of French words derive from Vulgar Latin or were constructed from Latin or Greek roots. |
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When Pakistan was created in 1947, although Punjabi was the majority language, English and Urdu were chosen as the national languages. |
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In the past, the vast majority of members of Unitarian churches were Unitarians also in theology. |
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The great majority of American Protestants, both clergy and laity, strongly supported the independence movement. |
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Disraeli kept Labouchere's majority down to 170, a good showing that put him in line for a winnable seat in the near future. |
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At this point in time a majority of Methodist members were not attending Anglican church services. |
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As of 2013, there are approximately 1.2 million autoconfirmed users on English Wikipedia, although the vast majority are not currently active. |
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Up until 1630, the majority of women accused of witchcraft were prostitutes. |
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The majority of Southeast Asia has a wet and dry season caused by seasonal shift in winds or monsoon. |
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The vast majority of Southeast Asia falls within the warm, humid tropics, and its climate generally can be characterised as monsoonal. |
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He noted that the overwhelming majority of individuals in the American Heathen community were white, male, and young. |
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Malaysia has a number of grammar schools, a majority of which were established when the country was under the British. |
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However, majority of the independent schools today are still registered as a charity, bursary is available to students on means test basic. |
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In the province of Quebec, the majority of students must attend college prior to entering university. |
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The vast majority of these are untrue, but have been propagated nonetheless by generations of students and tour guides. |
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This groups together a majority of the site's content. There is no namespace prefix for the mainspace. |
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In the province of Ontario, the vast majority of bachelor's degrees offered by Ontario universities are academic in nature. |
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The vast majority of undergraduate programmes offered in the Czech Republic have a standard duration of three years. |
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The majority of halls offer single or twin accommodation with some rooms having en suite facilities. |
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Named after William Cavendish, they account for the vast majority of bananas consumed in the western world. |
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Mayors and their adjoints were often simple cultivateurs like the majority of the community. |
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In the Kampinos Forest, on the other hand, all substrates have been inhabited at majority by a morphotype called acrostomy. |
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Beef, lamb, and duck were employed, but a majority of the time it was the magpie that was the main ingredient. |
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The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber. |
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Since protein constitutes the majority of the biomass of a cell, building new protein is a major way that cells increase their size. |
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The Prime Minister could count on the support of a hawkish majority in Parliament to support the invasion. |
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Instead, the majority of studies involve freezing the carcasses until time permits the analysis. |
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In Ireland, the majority of traditional vendors are migrants or the descendants of migrants from southern Italy. |
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For a large part of the twentieth century the majority of light vehicles used petrol engines that were equipped with a carburettor. |
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He must have reached the age of majority by 1129, when he is recorded as witnessing a charter. |
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Although egg thickens the custard, the effect is minimal, with the majority of thickening resulting from starch. |
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A fundamental feature expressed by the vast majority of cytokines is a profound immunomodulatory activity. |
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Pale ale had replaced mild as the beer of choice for the majority of drinkers. |
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Whilst draught beer takes up the majority of the market, bottled beer has a firm place and is a growing sector. |
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In Bristol West, Labour had a majority of only 1,000, so the seat is considered highly marginal this time around. |
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Hardy writes that Russell's dismissal had created a scandal since the vast majority of the Fellows of the College opposed the decision. |
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The majority of these annotations appear to date to the 13th century and later. |
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Of the surviving prose, the majority consists of the homilies, saints' lives and biblical translations from Latin. |
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The peak years were 1933 and 1934, and the overwhelming majority of disbarrings were for stealing from clients and related offences. |
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Walpole commanded a substantial majority in Parliament and George had little choice but to retain him or risk ministerial instability. |
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He recorded a small number of songs using a phonograph but the vast majority were recorded by hand. |
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David Riesman states that the youth audiences of popular music fit into either a majority group or a subculture. |
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Both the Jacobins and Lenin believed in a temporary dictatorship of the majority over counterrevolutionary minorities. |
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The majority of staff are volunteers, helping the festival to raise millions of pounds for good causes. |
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According to the majority of commentators, Hitchcock's films were extensively storyboarded to the finest detail. |
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In the National Assembly for Wales election, 2016, Labour held Newport West with a reduced majority of 4,115 votes over the Conservative Party. |
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Bolstered claims of mustering a simple majority are an integral part of electionspeak. |
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In other words, a majority of the Fortune 500 are of the size of universities, from 500 up to about 40000 employees. |
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In the vast majority of cases, it is the striker who is out when a dismissal occurs. |
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The majority of players use the Challenger Series at the beginning of their career to work their way up the rankings. |
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Yet for the vast majority of those who acted on their urges to be in pictures, Hollywood was not the end of the rainbow but the end of the road. |
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A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent. |
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Media support for ice hockey has improved on a national level, although the majority of news is still found on the internet. |
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The Nationals gave the Coalition its Senate majority and yesterday were feeling their oats. |
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The vast majority of the population lived in the city center, packed into apartment blocks. |
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Until the late 19th century the majority of Welsh literature was in Welsh and much of the prose was religious in character. |
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Over 560,000 Welsh language speakers live in Wales, and the language is spoken by a majority of the population in parts of the north and west. |
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Since the Second World War, the service sector has come to account for the majority of jobs, a feature typifying most advanced economies. |
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The Isle of Wight Council election of 2013 saw the Conservatives lose the majority which they had held since 2005 to the Island Independents. |
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The majority of phenotypic progenitor cells were shown to be lymphoid and not myeloid. |
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The majority of scholars believe that the Anglii lived on the coasts of the Baltic Sea, probably in the southern part of the Jutish peninsula. |
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The majority of immigrants to the United States without British ancestry rapidly adopted English after arrival. |
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Once a majority of the members have taken the oath in each House, the State Opening of Parliament may take place. |
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Private Members' Bills make up the majority of bills, but are far less likely to be passed than government bills. |
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The majority of the prehistoric remains on Dartmoor date back to the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. |
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In the English Civil War the majority of Londoners supported the Parliamentary cause. |
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You have to understand I worked in a very hippie nightclub for years, and the majority of the staff did not even like the Grateful Dead. |
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He spent the majority of his time residing in Cambridge, and working on it, but did not live to complete the preparation. |
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The majority of his writings were of this type, and covered the Old Testament and the New Testament. |
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A referendum was then held on the same day as the 1937 general election, when a relatively narrow majority approved it. |
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Language shift during the 19th century replaced Irish with English as the first language for a vast majority of the population. |
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The majority of these cover occult subjects such as alchemy, astrology, chiromancy and physiognomy. |
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In many soils, the majority of fine plant feeder roots can be found in the topsoil or plough layer. |
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In this view, held by the majority of historians until the mid to late twentieth century, much of England was cleared of its prior inhabitants. |
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In 88 BC, Mithridates ordered the killing of a majority of the 80,000 Romans living in his kingdom. |
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From the outset, Rome's military typified this pattern and the majority of Rome's wars were characterized by one of two types. |
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Once a measure received support from a majority of the tribes, the voting would end. |
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First York operates the majority of the city's local bus services, as well as the York park and ride services. |
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Another theory has challenged this view and started to examine evidence that the majority of Anglo Saxons were Brittonic in origin. |
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William spent most of his time in England between the Battle of Hastings and 1072, and after that he spent the majority of his time in Normandy. |
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The resources he commanded in England helped him to establish control of the majority of Scandinavia, too. |
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From 1945 to 1962, the Labour Party held an absolute majority in the parliament. |
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Their deaths left the majority of the magnates younger and more naturally aligned to the princes than to the king himself. |
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The majority of Anglicans, however, have in common a belief in the Real Presence, defined in one way or another. |
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This was a period of significant change for the majority of the rural population, with manorial lords beginning the process of enclosure. |
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The majority of the Legionella cells in water are believed to live intracellularly as protozoan parasites. |
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The majority of the other symbols were made official in the late 20th century. |
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The majority died of disease or made their way back to Europe, but some of them made the Indies their new home. |
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He had the power to call and dissolve Parliaments but obliged under the Instrument to seek the majority vote of the Council of State. |
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Thus, he was the last patrilineal descendant of William I to be named stadtholder for the majority of the provinces. |
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In modern times, the vast majority of ministers belong to the Commons rather than the Lords. |
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Impeachments are tried by the House of Lords, where a simple majority is necessary to convict. |
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When the majority of Tory Lords proposed to acclaim her as sole ruler, William threatened to leave the country immediately. |
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A month later, Amalia allowed William to manage his own household and declared him to be of majority age. |
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The majority of the works that were published were for keyboard, voice and keyboard, and chamber ensemble. |
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This in turn gave precedence to the publishing industry in Holland, where the vast majority of these French language periodicals were produced. |
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Indeed, the majority of the winning entries were for poetry competitions, a genre commonly stressed in women's education. |
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A majority of the representatives of the clergy soon joined them, as did 47 members of the nobility. |
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The general elections of 1790 resulted in a majority for the government, and Pitt continued as Prime Minister. |
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In the October 1974 general election, the Labour Party gained 18 seats, giving Wilson a majority of three. |
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