Yet the Turkish-Cypriots still voted for it by a substantial majority for the sake of peace in the island.
Quite a small contribution, as Cisco generates a substantial majority of its profit by selling routers, switches and network services.
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Accounting for a substantial majority, Intel has been winning in the PC microprocessor market for the last two decades.
Upon completion, Baidu will have a substantial majority stake in iQiyi.
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And while Mr Chavez still enjoys the support of a substantial majority of Venezuelans, he will have to think harder in future before using that weapon indiscriminately.
Companies like Kayak, which have a recognized brand name, might have a substantial majority of their users visiting their sites directly rather than being routed through a search engine.
They warned that opposing gay marriage could "risk alienating the voters we will need in 2015", adding that a "substantial majority" of the public support the plan, particularly younger people.
"When we picked those 50, 000 titles we focused on having a substantial majority of our physical CD sales covered, " said Steve Boom, head of digital music at Amazon in a statement.
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But a more substantial majority of people -- 68 percent -- think that Watergate was serious enough to warrant former President Richard Nixon's resignation, while just 26 percent said it was not.
Although the substantial majority of our mobile users also access and engage with Facebook on personal computers where we display advertising, our users could decide to increasingly access our products primarily through mobile devices.
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The substantial majority of these people, Bill and others are discovering, would far prefer to remain productively engaged, and would prefer independence and self reliance to government entitlement for as long as they can.
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Since all opinion polls show a substantial majority of Israelis supporting the 13% pullback the Americans have proposed, and the referendum will take two or three months to arrange, Mr Netanyahu's purpose may also be to waste time.
Given that they were pushed through by a majority of 131 votes, with substantial support from crossbenchers (and the votes of six bishops) with a majority of Lib Dem peers sitting on their hands (they turned out in much greater numbers on another amendment) the chances of overturning them look slim on numerical grounds alone.
For the majority, waiting until a substantial base has been put in, and then buying a break from consolidation is a much better strategy.
Obama knows that there is no mandate, no majority and no way to deliver substantial policy initiatives for either side.
To have a chance at a majority, then, Democratic politicians need to give substantial numbers of ordinary people a reason to vote for them.
And yet a substantial percentage of the Senate at least seems to disagree with the vast majority of the American people, to disagree with the vast majority of the people of their states?
"Such a move would generate substantial economic efficiency gains from reduced congestion, reduce the tax levied on the majority of miles driven, leave many (particularly rural) motorists better off, and provide a stable long-term footing for motoring taxes without necessarily raising net additional revenue from drivers, " the IFS said.
But apart from a few sports like basketball and football, the vast majority of sports at the high school level are funded by parents through athletic clubs and require substantial financial resources.
He highlighted the "desperate" situation for many disadvantaged children in the UK, urging the MP "not to attack those parents investing heavily in their children, but to find out why the vast majority of young people want to be good parents and yet a very, very, very substantial group of them fail to do so".
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