"majority" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In a series of cases in recent years the five-member majority of this court has undertaken to cut back the power of Congress vis-a-vis the states.
- "Any doubt as to the meaning of statutory terms should be resolved broadly in favor of ballot access," the five-member majority concluded.
- Justice Gary S. Stein, writing for the five-member majority, noted that consumers could not choose their own water supplier.
- Government may not opt for "silencing speech on the basis of its content," Justice Antonin Scalia said for a five-member majority.
- Justices Thomas and Scalia, with their view that no districting case was valid, provided the two other votes for the five-member majority.
- Franklin Roosevelt proposed increasing the size of the court to dilute an errant five-member majority.
- (In 1937, he was part of the five-member majority that finally ended the Lochner era by upholding a state minimum wage law.)
- Justice Cynthia D. Kinser authored the five-member majority.
- Democratic Opportunities With Republicans maintaining only a five-member majority in the State Senate, every seat matters.
- She spoke as a member of a state school board subcommittee with a five-member majority that favors inserting intelligent design alongside evolution in the state's new teaching standards.
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