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• Majority — This article is about the mathematical concept of majority. For other uses, see Majority (disambiguation). A majority is a subset of a group consisting of more than half of its members. This can be compared to a plurality, which is a subset… …   Wikipedia

• Majority criterion — The majority criterion is a single winner voting system criterion, used to compare such systems. The criterion states that if one candidate is preferred by a majority (more than 50%) of voters, then that candidate must win .[1] Some methods that… …   Wikipedia

• majority — /mə dʒɒrɪti/ noun more than half of a group ♦ majority of the shareholders more than 50% of the shareholders ♦ the board accepted the proposal by a majority of three to two three members of the board voted to accept the proposal and two voted… …   Dictionary of banking and finance

• majority —    , like major, has been wearied by overuse, particularly in the expression the vast majority of, as in these three examples, all from authorities: The vast majority of conditional sentences . . . (Partridge); In the vast majority of instances …   Dictionary of troublesome word

• majority —  should be reserved for describing the larger of two clearly divisible things, as in A majority of the members voted for the resolution. But even then a more specific description is usually better: 52 percent, almost two thirds, more than 70… …   Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors

• Majority voting — Voting system under which each director is voted upon separately. Related: cumulative voting. The New York Times Financial Glossary …   Financial and business terms

• Moral Majority — Jerry Falwell, whose founding of the Moral Majority was a key step in the formation of the New Christian Right The Moral Majority was a political organization of the United States which had an agenda of evangelical Christian oriented political… …   Wikipedia

• Silent majority — This article is about the political phrase popularized by Richard Nixon. For other uses, see Silent majority (disambiguation). The silent majority is an unspecified large majority of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions… …   Wikipedia

• Double majority — This article is about voting with two criteria of majority needing to be satisfied. For a system that requires more than 50% of the vote, see Majority and Absolute majority. For a system requiring more than an arbitrary percentage, set at greater …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear option — This article is about the U.S. legislative tactic. See also nuclear warfare. In U.S. politics, the nuclear option (or constitutional option ) allows the United States Senate to reinterpret a procedural rule by invoking the argument that the… …   Wikipedia

• ancient Rome — ▪ ancient state, Europe, Africa, and Asia Introduction       the state centred on the city of Rome. This article discusses the period from the founding of the city and the regal period, which began in 753 BC, through the events leading to the… …   Universalium