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| Domain | Definition |
Law | A vote of more than half of the legislative body considering a measure. The full Assembly requires a majority vote of 41 and the full Senate requires 21, based on their memberships of 80 and 40 respectively. (references) |
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Crosswords: MAJORITY VOTE |
| Specialty definitions using "MAJORITY VOTE": Hades. (references) |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-2038 | Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The decisions of the Commission shall be taken by a majority vote. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The authorization procedure will probably be similar to that of directive 90/220, whereby an application must be approved by a qualified majority vote by member states. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Slovak Republic | Three boards, appointed by a majority vote of Parliament, supervise radio and television broadcasting. (references) |
Economic History | Solomon Islands | However, Parliament may be dissolved by majority vote of its members before the completion of its term. (references) |
Cameroon | Laws are adopted by majority vote of members present or, if the president demands a second reading, of a total membership. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ireland | Its verdicts are by majority vote. (references) |
Estonia | The district and State Courts are also courts for "constitutional supervision." At the rural and city levels, court decisions are made by a majority vote with a judge and two lay members sitting in judgment. (references) | |
Political Economy | Ukraine | The prime minister can also be removed by a majority vote in the Verkhovna Rada. (references) |
Political Rights | Nepal | The House of Representatives, or lower house, may send legislation directly to the King by majority vote. (references) |
Micronesia | The Congress is elected by popular vote from each state; the Congress then chooses the President and Vice President by majority vote from among its four at large senators. (references) | |
Bangladesh | Until April when the constitutional provision that provided parliamentary participation for them expired, 30 legislative seats were reserved for women appointed by majority vote in Parliament; critics charged that these seats acted far less to empower women than to enhance the ruling party's majority. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Nicaragua | The Labor Code requires a majority vote of all the workers in an enterprise to call a strike. (references) |
Zimbabwe | However, if a majority vote is obtained, the dispute is referred to the concerned government agency for resolution. (references) | |
Singapore | The law provides that, in order to strike, unionized workers must first obtain a majority vote in favor of the strike by secret ballot. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where the dead live. Among the ancients the idea of Hades was not synonymous with our Hell, many of the most respectable men of antiquity residing there in a very comfortable kind of way. Indeed, the Elysian Fields themselves were a part of Hades, though they have since been removed to Paris. When the Jacobean version of the New Testament was in process of evolution the pious and learned men engaged in the work insisted by a majority vote on translating the Greek word "Aides" as "Hell"; but a conscientious minority member secretly possessed himself of the record and struck out the objectional word wherever he could find it. At the next meeting, the Bishop of Salisbury, looking over the work, suddenly sprang to his feet and said with considerable excitement: "Gentlemen, somebody has been razing 'Hell' here!" Years afterward the good prelate's death was made sweet by the reflection that he had been the means (under Providence) of making an important, serviceable and immortal addition to the phraseology of the English tongue. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
majority vote | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "MAJORITY VOTE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | fordelt to tredjedeles flertal (distributed two-thirds majority vote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verdeelde tweederde meerderheid van stemmen (distributed two-thirds majority vote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | majorité répartie des deux tiers (distributed two-thirds majority vote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | beiderseitige Zweidrittelmehrheit (distributed two-thirds majority vote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατανεμημένη πλειοψηφία των δύο τρίτων (distributed two-thirds majority vote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | maggioranza ripartita dei due terzi (distributed two-thirds majority vote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ajoritymay otevay maioria repartida de dois terços (distributed two-thirds majority vote). (various references) mayoría distribuida de dos tercios (distributed two-thirds majority vote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-j-m-o-o-r-t-t-v-y" | |
-3 letters: motivator. | |
-4 letters: amoretti, amoretto, majority, motivate, rotative, tomatoey, vomitory. | |
-5 letters: jittery, mattery, omitter, overjoy, tearoom, tritoma, variety, vitamer, vomiter. | |
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