The goal was to maximize turnout in the Republican conservative base and win a small majority of unaffiliated voters.
Gay marriage is more unpopular than unions (about 60% dislike the former), but, depending on how the question is asked, a small majority disapproves of civil unions too.
Last November, when the referendum date was announced, polls showed a small majority in favour of joining.
Public opinion polls show a small majority in favour of a Palestinian state.
Said another way, to imagine a situation where women went from a small minority to equal or even a majority of these executive positions would require much more than simply changing the identity of the executives.
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Bersani fared the best in the February elections by leading a leftist coalition dominated by his Democratic Party to a small majority in the lower house of Parliament, but has been unable to form a government.
For a majority of small shopkeepers, no order is too small and no house too far.
According to IRS data, a clear majority of all small business profits face taxation at this top marginal income tax rate.
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Bersani fared the best in the February elections by leading a leftist coalition to a small majority in the lower house of parliament.
This has led to a situation in which a small minority of Israelis behaves as if it were a large majority.
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To be sure, some of the overseas investments are being made by wealthy individuals with discretionary funds, while a majority of Japan's small investors still prefer to invest in the home market.
It went from small to 300, 000 in less than two years, a recruitment rate of about 15, 000 a month, the vast majority of them private individuals or very small companies.
The imbroglio also raises the question of who runs the country: the prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, or Mr Kamei, the gadfly leader of a small coalition party, whose six parliamentarians give the DPJ its majority in the upper house of the Diet.
An analysis of small, dim "red dwarf" stars - which make up a majority of stars in our galaxy - shows that 6% of them host such a planet.
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Quite a small contribution, as Cisco generates a substantial majority of its profit by selling routers, switches and network services.
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Through a colleague I found a small shelter operated by a reformed ex-con and former gang member who has spent the majority of his life in prison.
Jim Hacker is prime minister of a coalition government with a small majority.
For the moment, however, the island remains free of high-impact resorts, and the majority of the guesthouses are taking a small-scale approach with a focus on ecotourism.
But for the vast majority of small businesses, this is a great deal.
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The Council of Ministers uses a system of weighted qualified-majority voting in which small countries are heavily over-represented.
It gained a majority north of the Po only because of the small-town vote in the League's strongholds of Lombardy and Veneto.
Firms with payrolls or employment levels below a certain threshold, which would include the vast majority of small businesses, would be exempt from the pay-or-play provisions.
We've put a tax cut -- a tax cut, not a tax hike -- a tax cut into the pockets of the vast majority of small business owners and employees.
Mr Major's small parliamentary majority, 21 in 1992, a minority now, has of course played an important part in this.
The upshot is that the government will have a majority of only one, even with the support of the small group of independents.
"The vast majority of schools are very safe places and it is a small minority of pupils that are involved in more serious misbehaviour, " he said.
For example, a somewhat aggressive team salary cap, coupled with a higher minimum salary for players and revenue sharing that redistributes money from large-market teams to small-market teams, may be in the interest of a majority of owners and players, but would be unacceptable to the folks at the table.
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And, yes, a very small fraction of Democrats may have voted here, but the overwhelming majority of Democrats support the principle that the overwhelming, in fact, the entire majority -- the entire Republican caucus, I assume, in both the House and the Senate supports, which is that we ought to extend tax cuts for the middle class.
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