| 词汇 | example_english_majority |
| 释义 | Examples of majorityThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Not just by majoritarianism, intuitively characterized, but also by unanimitarianism and minoritarianism and any procedures requiring special majorities of two-thirds and the like. Vast majorities of dalits remained aligned with agriculture in some capacity or the other. Legitimacy politics for the official assembly was dominated by democratic discourse based on constructed notions of majorities that were accepted as objective social facts. At first, economic development and its attendant white-collar majorities were themselves in short supply. Processes of negotiation and exchange open the possibility of mixed outcomes reflecting the asymmetric preferences of majorities and minorities. Moreover, large majorities believed the government's policies to be ' too favourable ' to business (70n4 per cent) and ' too unfavourable ' to workers (67n8 per cent). Unfortunately, spontaneous majorities rarely form in support of one party. If the distribution of seats and of preferences were the same, there would be equally many minority governments supported by legislative majorities under both systems. Politicians within central government know that certain seats are more important than others to secure legislative majorities. The net effect may still be desirable from the majority's point of view. Certainly, the school choice scheme appears popular with many parents, and has achieved good satisfaction ratings from majorities. Where legislative majorities are large it is less important, but the same is true of a supermajority multiplier. The majority's rationale does not necessarily set the significance of the decision, as some legal commentators are prepared to admit. What followed were attempts to treat unprotected minorities, including marginalised and weak ones, as equal to the majorities. Overwhelming majorities supported not only local bills generally but big-city bills specifically. The logroll, or vote-trade, is another tool for managing legislative majorities, but one which is empirically more elusive. Such stable organized patterns, in which local majorities draw in neighboring cells, are ubiquitous in networks of all kinds, and mirror many natural systems. The social majorities of the world will never, now or in the future, have access to these socalled global phenomena. The president's party had majorities in both houses from 1946 until 1955, 1958 to 1963, and again from 1973 to 1976. By the 1920s, the traditional parties had lost their majorities in the house of representatives and were gradually losing power in the senate. The reason is straightforward: parties in concentrated systems need to secure majorities to win elections. The existence of strong majorities is, on the other hand, facilitated by the electoral system which favours the emergence of stable and powerful one-party governments. However, labour held the parliamentary seat by large majorities throughout the 1920s, whether in three-way contests or straight fights with the unionist. We may interpret this justification from the standpoints of both legislative majorities and legislative minorities. Feeling left behind in comparison to ethnic majorities may escalate such disappointment. Because one-party majorities controlled parliament, leaders did not have to negotiate with coalition partners. Historically, majorities have benefited by the standard quorum rule, which counts all those physically present as contributing to the quorum. Special majorities are also provided for in some cases. Another possibility is that a rise in sectional tensions made it more difficult to secure majorities. While their disparate policy crusades engendered some opposition, they each won political battles with the congressional majorities and presidents of their time. The overall response was an endorsement of the rule by large majorities: abridgement (80%), acknowledgement (73%), judgement (76%), lodgement (83%). Democracy, by definition, entails responsiveness to popular majorities - as manifested in ordinary polls as well as elections and referendums. Thirdly, a propensity to form minority governments will obviously decrease proportionality of government tenure because minorities govern and majorities do not. On some occasions conservative parties have gained power only with slim majorities. Finally, there is the possibility that majorities can use proxy voting to maintain control while permitting their members the desired rate of absenteeism. The fact that they are more successful when they constitute majorities is most likely due to selection bias. Large majorities were in favour of tightening the admission criteria for refugees, in favour of the bilateral treaties and of deficit reduction. To hold presidential and parliamentary elections concurrently would reduce the chances for a divided government with competing majorities in the executive and legislative branches. A strong central government based on a dominant party with comfortable majorities has given way to coalition governments precariously dependent on the regional parties. At stake is not 'principal-agent analysis', which is simply a general framework for understanding the dynamics between legislative majorities and the civil service. From his perspective, these features all directly or indirectly relate to time and constrain the governing majority's ability to make law (p. 48). Such majorities are also needed to pass budgets and make public policy. Where such legislative majorities are elected, they almost always form parliamentary governments without adding other parties. On a more fundamental level, laws that pass with bipartisan majorities may not begin with bipartisan support. If confined to the single dimension of sovereignty, the issue is intractable, with effective majorities of key actors against every conceivable alternative. A first test for a real government mandate being conferred asks whether knowable and coherent electoral majorities are actually evident in practice. Not surprisingly, the commission's farmer representatives opposed the majority's tax proposals. The oversized majorities expected to accompany universal distributions did not, however, generally obtain in the case of internal improvements. In some states, majorities were necessary in each chamber of the legislature in order to choose a senator. In short, had electoral majorities wanted to abandon judicial review, judicial review would have been abandoned. Under the majority's ruling, however, corporations now have the potential of soliciting almost the entire workforce of the nation. According to this line of thinking, presidential systems are more likely than parliamentary systems to thwart small majorities in favor of spending legislation. Changes of legislative majorities and party changes in government maintain elite circulation, offer opportunities for aspirant groups and lead to changes in public policy. The electoral system aimed to better reflect the popularity of parties, avoid manufactured majorities, and produce a parliament where several parties were represented, according to their share of the vote. Note the large majorities in cases of mass misery and the majorities and pluralities in cases of barbarism and persecution of civilians in contrast to weaker support for political-military rationales. Political elites are dependent on basing their policies on such values and models as are shared by majorities of the population if they want to continue being elected. Consequently, it is not absurd to entrench rights in the constitution, in order to protect the fundamental interests they encapsulate against the majority's attempts at harming them. Voters appear to reward governments with only small majorities that are seeking re-election, perhaps seeing such governments as having legitimate needs to go to the nation. However, the stochasticity of the dynamics also leads to recurrent switches between majorities, so that the model generates a bimodal ergodic distribution of the agents' configuration. They were consistently able to induce congressional majorities and presidents to consider and pass legislation that was quite different from the original visions and preferences of these elected authorities. When concentrations can be said to be significant, and are supported by the evidence of large street voting majorities in mill neighbourhoods, they do express a largely undifferentiated employer allegiance. A party which avoids piling up huge majorities in its safer constituencies while managing to win a disproportionate number by relatively small margins will benefit from efficiency bias. The large majorities that such parties pile up, election after election, can hardly be challenged by the many small, weak and volatile parties that surround the ruling group. Throughout this period the centre-left obtained majorities, or at least pluralities, from women voters. The country chapters also include five standard overview tables and figures on the political institutions, the party system, governmental majorities, the pension system, and proposed and enacted pension reforms. During the process of discussion, majorities should show tolerance for minorities; after the decision is made, minorities should carry out their obligations to submit to majorities. The majorities that support the premises in our examples of the paradox are such that the intersection between them is a minority in the group as a whole. A few years later (1995), a 23-country poll found majorities in every country (in most of 70 per cent of more) for an international organization having enforcement powers. Large majorities find ' things better now than before ' with respect to freedom of speech (85 per cent), rights of association, and electoral choice (both 86 per cent). Furthermore, even in those regions reached by the legal system, it is often applied with discriminatory biases against various minorities and even majorities, such as the poor and women. In questions of right and wrong majorities do not count. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If you will not have democratic government and will not let majorities rule, then you will make yourself an exhibition before the whole world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We think that our scheme is speedier than the majority's proposals, with their possibilities of a multiplicity of loopholes and exceptions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Majorities have always been able to look after themselves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I suspect not, but we are not talking about majorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In this country we argue about democracy, mandates and the entitlements of majorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Countries with written constitutions have entrenched provisions that allow for specially large majorities when there is voting for constitutional change. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are no struggling minorities there who want protection against dominant castes or dominant majorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The miners themselves, by huge majorities, have decided this business. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I had fought two elections that year and been returned by large majorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He also mentioned the extension of the franchise as an argument that you are not now going to have an appeal from majorities to force. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No doubt majorities will often run very low. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Both had been returned by huge majorities, having long been out of office. Huge majorities apparently prefer reducing unemployment to fighting inflation. In the economic sphere, the global capitalist system offers a more or less circumscribed place to the wage-earning majorities in most countries. The representational parliamentary systems, by contrast, experienced considerable problems with both stability and effective majorities. He needed 'temporary' conservatives to build his majorities. The indirect effects may be seen as a matter of making real-world majorities more authentic. Substantial majorities believe that it is necessary to increase spending in order to improve the services. On the other hand, because the parliamentary majorities of the coalitions have not been large, small regional parties can wreak havoc. American majorities have opposed emissions rights trading, as allowing rich countries to sidestep emissions reduction. The success of promoters in securing state-level majorities is further evidence of strong popular support for public spending on improvements. By 1938, most of their majorities had evaporated. Although alternatives were proposed, most requiring lesser majorities, for varying reasons delegates found the two-thirds rule comfortable. Majorities of losers were supportive of proportional representation, while majorities of winners were opposed. They needed to dispel much more state patronage in order to keep their electoral majorities. Nevertheless, a smaller subset of the human community that objects to some or all of these uses raises significant ethical questions about the majority's actions. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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