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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

(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

Required majority 16

Perhaps for precisely this reason, the abstention rate (an average of 57 ), was the highest since the first vote in 1979, while the composition of the Parliament, with its right wing majority, underwent no significant changes.

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.

The next 34 percent are your early majority, your late majority and your laggards.

Rogers classified individuals into five groups innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards.

It was Majority government.

Majority influence refers to the majority trying to produce conformity on the minority, while minority influence is converting the majority to adopt the thinking of the minority group.

All of these are provinces with Muslim majority populations that are part of non Muslim majority states.

The majority of the developing countries were in extremely difficult situations which had prompted them to make significant efforts in the sphere of trade liberalization, demonstrating their aspiration to use trade as an instrument of development and poverty reduction.

Europe s Silent Pro Treaty Majority

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

However, the decision did not lay down how mental retardation should be defined (although the majority quoted the definition used by the American Association of Mental Retardation and the American Psychiatric Association, both of which stressed significant sub average mental functioning ).

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

Uyghurs comprise the majority in Kashgar.

The majority of Israelis understand this.

The majority have no college degree.

Thailand has a Buddhist majority population.

Majority required for Security Council decisions

Other significant developments

Responses were received from all countries where significant illicit coca bush cultivation takes place (Bolivia, Colombia and Peru) and from the majority of those where illicit opium poppy cultivation takes place (Afghanistan, Colombia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mexico, Myanmar and Viet Nam).

In terms of the S curve, innovators occupy 2.5 , early adopters 13.5 , early majority 34 , late majority 34 , and laggards 16 .

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.

Okay, so the great majority of us.

Intervention skeptics, therefore, remain the strong majority.

But the majority is not always right.

But in France, the majority says no.

The majority of medical personal are women.