The majority of Serbs hold Milosevic responsible for the decline of their society.

The majority of women hold the posts of attachés, third and second secretaries, whereas the number of female counsellors increased in 2003 and 2004.

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.

(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

On 2 November 2004, the Democratic candidate, Madeleine Bordallo, was re elected as Guam's representative to the United States Congress.7 In the vote for the 28th Guam Legislature, the Democrats lost their majority of nine seats and now hold six seats, while the Republicans won a majority of nine seats.

DH Please hold my wrist, will you. BF Yeah, hold this a minute.

LONDON With Labour trailing the Conservatives slightly in opinion polls, the British election on May 6 could well produce a hung parliament, in which neither major party obtains a majority and the Liberal Democrats hold the balance of power.

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

A Centerless Euro Cannot Hold

Hold on a moment, please.

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

I have a storybook on hold to write, and another on hold to be published.

Thailand has a Buddhist majority population.

Then Fir 'awn disobeyed the apostle , wherefore We laid hold of him with a painful hold .

And hold it there, hold it there, both of you, hold it there.

Several authors hold a different view.

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

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.

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).

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Russia will hold a presidential election in 2012.

The quorum for any meeting of the Council shall be the presence of a majority of members of each category referred to in article 4, provided that such members hold at least two thirds of the total votes in their respective categories.

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.

The majority of such studies show a positive linkage.

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

Despite their claims that they are pursuing shareholder value, the actions of top managers, in particular, often reflect only their own interests, rather than those of shareholders who often hold the great majority of the shares.

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.

Even Helen Mirren can hold a gun these days.

Hold out a hand to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

It is used as a container to hold liquids.

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Hold on.

It is natural, as is demonstrated by the huge majority even among the Russian minority that continues to support the country s independence. So it would be wrong to say that the democratic center cannot hold in Ukraine.

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