• The process of choosing a new pope involves cardinals from across the world gathering in Rome where they will then carry out a series of secret ballots until one of their number receives a majority of two-thirds of the votes.

    BBC: Pope Benedict XVI amends Roman Catholic conclave law

  • Those issues and a struggling economy gave Republicans a House majority and wins in a number of state legislative and gubernatorial elections.

    FORBES: The Left Brewing Its Own Tea

  • Third-quarter earnings were cited by the majority of respondents, but a sizeable number of respondents said the outcome of the elections would have a bigger impact on their outlook for stocks.

    FORBES: Investors Are More Concerned With Third Quarter Earnings Than Upcoming Elections

  • The board itself would be made up of a majority of people who were independent of the press but include a sufficient number of people with experience of the industry such as former editors and senior or academic journalists.

    BBC: Parties say Tory post-Leveson plan 'basis for talks'

  • However, my experience with a number of startups is that the majority were rather protective of how much info they shared.

    FORBES: Transparency Across the Ranks: Can They Handle the Truth?

  • The University of Bath was used as a base for a number of countries competing at London 2012 and will host the majority of this summer's 12-sport event.

    BBC: Special Olympics GB seeks volunteers for Bath event

  • The challenge is said to come from the 301 Group - an organisation of Tory MPs which takes its name from the number of seats needed to form a majority in the next House of Commons.

    BBC: What the '22 elections mean

  • Both the centre-left Labour party and the centre-right VVD party won a sufficient number of votes between themselves to rule with a majority in the lower houses of parliament.

    BBC: Netherlands election analysis: Dutch show faith in Europe

  • This time a number of factors combined to give Mr Adams a healthy majority of 7, 909.

    ECONOMIST: Northern Ireland

  • Obama is trailing badly in a number of battleground states he must take to get a majority of electoral college votes.

    FORBES: GOP Electoral Victory In 2012 Could Rescue Defense Industry

  • Incidentally, I don't buy the view that this bill will never get through the Lords - I suspect the overwhelming majority of Labour and Lib Dem peers, plus quite a number of Conservatives and crossbenchers, will vote for it, and it will pass the Upper House quite comfortably.

    BBC: A matter of timing

  • Today, women are nearly 50 percent of our workforce, the majority of students in our colleges and graduate schools, and a growing number of breadwinners in their families.

    WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation - Women��s Equality Day, 2012

  • "London 2012 gives us a fantastic opportunity to showcase and promote UK Plc and the majority of these tickets will be used to invite and accompany a number of international influencers, dignitaries and business leaders to the benefit of the country, " a spokeswoman said.

    BBC: Government ticket allocation for 2012 Games questioned

  • After all, while the Cantabria branch of the party launched the opposition movement, the national Partido Popular, which holds a parliamentary majority in Madrid, has come out in favor of fracking on a number of occasions.

    FORBES: Why is Spain Pushing Back on Shale?

  • In addition to tax cuts, a number of Republicans, including House Majority Leader Dick Armey and 1996 presidential candidate Steve Forbes, have also proposed so-called "flat tax" plans that would radically alter the income tax system.

    CNN: AllPolitics - Clinton Adviser: No Major Tax Cut In 1998

  • While e-books have won over a number of people, the latest stats from The Publishers Association suggest that the majority of Brits still prefer the printed form, which accounted for 88 percent of all book sales during 2012.

    ENGADGET

  • Since the November election, Mr. Rubio has joined a number of other GOP leaders, including Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, who are working to soften the party's image and to realign its message in the eyes of voters.

    WSJ: Rubio Gains GOP Influence

  • Asked about criticism of Mr Chavez's human rights record, Mr Livingstone said he was not aware of the details of specific allegations but the former leader had himself survived a number of attempted assassinations and coups and won elections with the support of the majority of the people.

    BBC: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

  • While the majority of his fortune comes from Xiaomi, he also owns minority stakes in a number of Chinese online enterprises, including Hong Kong-listed anti-virus firm Kingsoft, private e-commerce companies Vancl and Lakala, mobile browser provider UC Web, and YY, which hit the Nasdaq exchange last Wednesday.

    FORBES: Chinese Billionaire Lei Jun Sees Hundred-fold Return After YY IPO

  • Obama, once a long shot for the Democratic nomination, also won a majority of pledged delegates to the Democratic Convention bringing him about 70 delegates shy of the required number to win the party s nomination.

    CNN: States to Watch

  • Almost all the laureates honoured thus far did their main work in America, and the majority are actually American (with a curiously high number of Scandinavian exceptions).

    ECONOMIST: Nobel prize in economics

  • But with a Republican takeover of the House in the offing, AFSCME reversed itself and began supporting Democrats it once opposed, following what it calls the "218 Strategy, " after the number of seats needed for a House majority.

    WSJ: Public-Employees Union Is Now Campaign's Big Spender

  • Although the technical membership of the UPFA may now be approaching the bare minimum of legislators needed to maintain a majority in the 225-seat parliament, the government is likely to be able to find a comfortable number of MPs to back its legislative agenda from among the numerous smaller parties in Sri Lanka.

    ECONOMIST: Wobbly Sri Lanka | The

  • She may not have the numerical - the possibility of getting a numerical majority to get the number to get the nomination.

    NPR: Political Junkie: Three Weeks to Pennsylvania

  • In the week beginning 24th August, over 700, 000 discussions or shares of the trial and its protagonists were distributed on the web, the vast majority of them on Twitter but with a significant number (58, 000) also in public Facebook posts.

    FORBES: Connect

  • The majority of new cases are around Swansea but a smaller number have been reported across the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg health board area.

    BBC: Boy with measles

  • So while men and women put in about the same number of hours a week doing work, women still do the majority of the unpaid tasks.

    FORBES: More Work and No Play Puts Today's Moms in a Tough Bind

  • The cases you're talking about, most, most regrettable tragedies for everyone tied up in it, but they are extremely small in number and we do a very good job in stopping the vast majority of harassment cases getting that way.

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  • While a small number of borrowers nationwide have been foreclosed upon in error, the vast majority of paperwork errors occur in cases where the borrower has defaulted and essentially abandoned any claim to the property.

    FORBES: Massachusetts Supreme Court Strips Foreclosure Buyer Of Property

  • But Mr Cash, speaking to the amendment tabled jointly by Labour and a number of Tory backbenchers to remove the need for a two-thirds majority to force an early election, said the rule ran "contrary to all constitutional precedent and history since our parliament first sat".

    BBC: Two-thirds dissolution rule 'is dangerous' - Tory MP

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