Their opposition is more elemental they do not accept the principle of democratic majority rule.

Moreover, the Palestinian Authority has come neither to represent the majority of Palestinians nor to rule by democratic means.

The vast majority of African states are republics that operate under some form of the presidential system of rule.

Decisions on sanctions will be streamlined by a reverse majority rule, under which a European Commission recommendation for decision is considered adopted unless rejected by a majority of the member states ministers.

In theory, we have always known that the ECB would, if necessary, make decisions on the basis of majority rule.

PARIS The United Nations General Assembly is the world s only body in which all countries vote, with majority rule prevailing.

Since then no party has single handedly formed a majority government, hence minority and coalition governments have been the rule.

He is part of the proud generation that defeated apartheid and then peacefully engineered a transition to durable black majority rule.

The Working Group established under rule 106, paragraph 1, may also declare a complaint admissible by majority vote or inadmissible by unanimity.

Protestants replied that if a vote were held within the geographical area of the entire island, the two thirds Catholic majority would rule.

The majority of our African descended friends spoke English, so that we as part of that generation were an exception to the rule.

Consider Ireland, where for many years Catholics objected that if a vote were held within Northern Ireland, the two thirds Protestant majority would rule.

Indeed, the Timorese people have consistently shown that what they want from their government is openness, dialogue, and majority voting under the rule of law.

In that context, we can understand why the majority of Kosovo Serbs regard the standard related to the rule of law as the most important one.

Once the Shah left, the radical minority that was willing to fight and die for its cause devoured the moderate majority, establishing Islamist rule in short order.

Recent disagreements over the drafting of a new constitution reveal a deeply divided society and a government that appears to equate (and confuse) majority rule with democracy.

Even in tiny Bahrain, the Sunni minority has, for now, succeeded in maintaining its rule over the Shia majority, albeit with military help from neighboring Sunni led countries.

It combined secular policies with a nationalist agenda and had the majority support in the following years against both the rule of the king and the British influence.

That rule lays down a procedure for restricted ballots in the event that, after the first ballot, the requisite number of candidates have not obtained the required majority.

This document provides information on the deliberations of the Conference of the Parties (COP) since its second session on rule 47 of the rules of procedure (majority required).

That rule lays down a procedure for restricted ballots in the event that, after the first ballot, the requisite number of candidates have not obtained the required majority.

Public opinion in the majority nationalist community (who sought greater independence from Britain) had shifted during the war from a demand for home rule to one for full independence.

Sudan s authoritarian rule and social division along religious lines, together with economic difficulties and political ineptitude, precipitated the collapse of the central government s authority in the country s Christian majority south.

Subject to paragraph 1 of rule 32, decisions of the Conference on all matters of substance shall be taken by a two thirds majority of the representatives present and voting.

If democracy means the rule of law, ensuring that the majority and minorities live together in harmony and respect, it should also be the guarantee of the right to live without fear.

(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

The chairman of a committee or working group may exercise the right to vote and Decisions of committees or working groups shall be taken by a majority of the Parties present and voting, except that the reconsideration of a proposal or of an amendment to a proposal shall require the majority established by Rule 38.

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LEEDS Thailand s former prime minister, Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, recently ignited a furor when he proposed that the separatist campaign in his country s Muslim majority southern provinces might be solved politically, with a form of self rule.

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

The Sunni resistance a guerilla and terrorist war that was well prepared in the last years of Saddam s rule will continue to try to subvert any semblance of order representing the current majority Shia Kurdish coalition.

The alternative solutions put forward in the document supra are still relevant and applicable to give final shape to this rule on the majority required in order for decisions taken by the COP to be adopted

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.

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

Each term in this particular rule is a rule name.

Europe s Silent Pro Treaty Majority

For Israelis, this would mean permanent occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and thus reckoning with an Arab majority, which would erode the foundations of their state democracy and the rule of law and thus its legitimacy.

Syria s leading role in Lebanon, even after withdrawing its occupying forces there, is only one complication. Another is Alawite minority rule in a Sunni majority country, which makes Syria a proxy for Shia Iran in the Sunni Arab world.

Although during its century of domination the colonial power had made widespread use of the divide and rule policy, the overwhelming majority of the nationalities of Myanmar had chosen to remain in the Union at the time of independence.