Yet most blacks decide to live in majority minority neighborhoods, while most whites live in overwhelmingly white neighborhoods.
The Republican majority in the Senate majority was not filibuster proof (55 seats), and Democratic majority in the House was enormous (272 members).
Having lost their built-in majority, the Conservatives can generally defeat the government in the Lords only with the help of the Liberal Democrats.
In majority Muslim Iraq, the law requires boys and girls in both public and private schools to study separately from age 12, when they enter secondary school.
We saw today a very civil procedure where you have an election and a change in majority, an election of the speaker that took place in just a few minutes' time with a roll-call vote.
It just takes too long to go through four critiques of every performance, and instead of a built-in majority you know have a tendency to split, forcing them to bring in producer Jimmy Iovine as a tiebreaker (though this season he was only used once).
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In majority counsel's presentation, I am sure the committee has heard that in just the two weeks there has been to actually review the evidence, majority counsel has now walked away from two of the grounds submitted by the independent counsel and has rewritten or added four others by simply subdividing the charges.
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However, exit polls showed Obama won strong support among women, Latino voters and gay and lesbian voters in the November election that also strengthened the Democratic majority in the Senate and weakened the Republican majority in the House.
That November brought the modern GOP its first majority of governorships in the South, its first majority of Senate seats in the South and its first majority of House seats in the South.
All that's changed in the last two weeks is that our party has gone from having the largest Senate majority in a generation to the second largest Senate majority in a generation.
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Fast forward to 2011 and Catholics are in the majority in Belfast at 48.58%, ahead of Protestants at 42.3%.
But even in this domain, men are in the majority in each of the countries surveyed except Angola, Swaziland and Zambia.
Meanwhile, there have been other times in the past when having one party or the other in the White House and in the majority in Congress was critical to the government being able to take timely actions in the face of serious financial problems or military threats.
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The five conservative justices who were in the majority in Bush v Gore might see it as a chance to rebuke the three judges from the Ninth Circuit, which is decidedly liberal and is said to have more of its rulings overturned than any other federal circuit.
If you can get a majority in the House and you can get a majority in the Senate, then we should be able to pass a bill.
Democrats currently have a 235 to 199 majority in the House of Representatives and a 51 to 49 majority in the Senate -- the chamber's two independent senators are allied with the Democrats.
The dissent essentially said was the Court would say in the majority opinion in Lawrence.
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There is a good deal in the majority opinion in Hamdan that should give them encouragement to go forward with those cases.
And so far, it's had enough support in the majority party in the House and the Senate to keep this from coming up.
They were doubtful about going to war, but, after weeks of Blairite persuasion, a big majority against in the opinion polls turned into a majority in favour.
They still have a majority in Texas's congressional delegation in Washington, and have a fair chance of holding on to their 83-to-67 majority in the Texas House of Representatives.
Any amendment requires both a national majority of voters and a majority of voters in a majority of states (ie, four out of six).
But when these things happen in white majority schools and in the suburbs, people start to freak out and video games are inevitably blamed.
Others advocate Europe-wide referendums on a single day to pass new treaties, which would be approved by a majority of voters in a majority of countries.
For example, late in 2012, it announced the acquisition of a majority stake in Chinese luxury jewelry brand, Qeelin, and last month announced it acquired a majority stake in the luxury designer brand, Christopher Kane.
With its new majority in the upper house, the DPJ can block an extension, which means Mr Abe would have to decide whether to use the LDP coalition's two-thirds majority in the lower house to overrule the veto.
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Explanations for this include the fact that it is possible that the levels of antibody titers may have been suboptimal in the majority of the smokers in the previous clinical trial or that the 12.5% reduction in binding may not be sufficient to lead to improved abstinence rates.
"In the majority of cases, lift in click-through rates ranged from 2% to 15%, " he says.
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