In addition to the Polish majority, there was a significant Jewish minority in Warsaw.

An estimated 750,000 Ethiopian migrants live in Saudi Arabia, among which a significant majority are unauthorized workers.

The overwhelming majority of scientists now agree that human activity is having a significant impact on the climate.

While none of these groups represents a majority point of view, they do exert significant influence and probably believe that they are acting in the interest of the majority.

In fact, a significant majority of Democrats, 60 , favored a reduction of troops in Afghanistan, compared with just 26 of Republicans.

Probably a significant majority of Africans have at least emergency access to a cell phone, either their own, a neighbor s, or one at a commercial kiosk.

The significant majority of voluntary contributions are received in United States dollars for projects programmable almost exclusively in that currency.

Turning to the Palestinian Authority elections, on 18 June, the Palestinian Legislative Council passed, with a significant majority, a new election law introducing the amendments proposed by President Abbas.

It introduces some significant improvements for majority voting in the Council of Ministers. It gives some more powers to the European Parliament.

Perhaps we will eventually reach a tipping point at which giving a significant amount to help the world s poorest becomes sufficiently widespread to eliminate the majority of those 25,000 needless daily deaths.

But a significant part of the JSA s revenue, if not a majority of it, still comes from ticket sales, despite the big fees that NHK, Japan s public television, pays for broadcast rights.

(b) A majority of producer members or a majority of consumer members or

(b) A majority of producer members or a majority of consumer members or

Barclays Capital estimates that only a few globally significant foreign banks hold close to 10 of their Tier 1 capital in Greek government bonds, with the majority holding much less.

Also significant, we are told, is the agreement to make decisions by simple majority, with countries votes to be roughly in proportion to their contributions.

Moreover, even if the double majority system helps to empower some weaker states, it does not account for the role of the world s smallest countries in global decision making processes. Although these countries represent a small share of the global population, they comprise a significant majority of the total number of countries.

While a significant number expressed a desire for Japan to improve its ability to defend itself, an overwhelming majority rejected the idea of developing nuclear arms and supported continued reliance on the US Japan Security Treaty.

Under this system, Casa della Libertà translated a small popular majority in 2001 into a decisive parliamentary majority.

A great majority of estates were left without a man so that women constitute the majority of the population.

Thailand has a Buddhist majority population.

Recognizing further that the majority of the world's poor still do not have access to financial services and that microcredit and microfinance are the subject of significant demand worldwide,

However, the number of seats won was not a majority, and efforts to form a majority coalition with other opposition parties failed.

It is a significant achievement.

In order to win, I need a majority.

All legislation is passed by a simple majority.

The Communists were guaranteed a majority in parliament.

A majority of the delegations supports the article.

It could fail to receive a two thirds majority at any one of the three stages, and, given the opposition to the proposal from a significant number of significant States, as well as the opposition or reservations of some of the five permanent members, it is highly unlikely that a Charter amendment based on the approach of the group of four would ever come into effect.

If such a right were recognized, there would be a Palestinian majority instead of a Jewish majority, which would mean the end of the Jewish state.

A majority of delegations preferred variant A of paragraph 2.

An absolute or a three fifths majority is required in exceptional cases (for example, the accession into the EU needed a 3 5 majority).

As an added provision, however, a law vetoed with a majority of 2 3 must be passed again with a majority of 2 3 in the Bundestag.

But this was a significant start.

This is a truly significant achievement.

A study reported a warming of the surface layer characterized by a significant increase of inter annual oscillations and a significant spatial variability.

The majority of such studies show a positive linkage.

Stagnation is a tacit collective choice made by a country s majority.

In the new Parliament, the election for President is repeated immediately with a 3 5 majority required for the initial vote, an absolute majority for the second one (151 votes) and a simple majority for the third and final one.

But they certainly play a significant role.

Significant weight loss is a bad sign.

However, a few significant restrictions still remain.

Although the majority of legislative steps had been completed by the end of 2004, the European Community was not yet ready to declare significant progress across the 16 priority areas listed in the feasibility study.

Some concern was expressed regarding the time frame for the referendum, which would be held on only one day, as gaining access to a majority of the polling stations in the province would in some places require populations to travel for a significant number of days.

A majority of the members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum.

(a) At the request of a majority of members of the Committee