Marian devotion similar to this kind is also found in Eastern Orthodoxy and sometimes in Anglicanism, though not in the majority of denominations of Protestantism.

Mary's main goal was to restore the Catholic faith to England ; however, the Marian Persecutions were unpopular with the Protestant majority of England, though naturally supported by the Catholic minority.

While the majority of public representatives left with De Rossa, many rank-and-file members remained in the Workers ' Party, with Marian Donnelly replacing De Rossa as President from 1992 to 1994.

The vast majority of Sigil's denizens dread her apparitions, and avoid mentioning her name aloud for fear of drawing her attention.

Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party slipped only a little in the voting but it was enough to lose the absolute Bundestag majority it has enjoyed since 1957.

Try to imagine a market in which only a minority of traders would lose, and the majority would make consistent profits.

Anyone still doubting that this is the only way markets can be is invited to try to imagine a market wherein the majority consistently wins what the minority loses.

Under the 1939 Code this item was permitted to survive a tax-free reorganization in the Stanton Brewery case, but only over the dissent of Judge Learned Hand, who wrote the majority opinion in the Sansome case, a leading case requiring carryover of earnings and profits in a non-taxable reorganization.

Further, and as an evidence of legislative intent only, the Senate of the United States recently defeated by a substantial majority the `` Holland Amendment '' to the Fair Labor Standards Act, which would have specifically limited the regulatory authority of the Secretary in these matters.

An action once universally condemned by all Christian churches and forbidden by the civil law is now not only approved by the overwhelming majority of Protestant denominations, but also deemed, at certain times, to be a positive religious duty.

He said " A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.

Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.

The moderate senators and representatives ( who constituted a majority of the Union party ) asked him for only a slight compromise ; their action was really an entreaty that he would unite with them to preserve Congress and the country from the policy of the radicals.

The majority are monoxenous ( infect one host only ) but a few are heteroxenous ( life cycle involves two or more hosts ).

Today, due to the political centralization of France and the important influence of the media, only about 200, 000 people are able to speak Breton, a figure down from more than a million in 1950, of which the majority is more than 60 years old.

Nonconformist members and members from constituencies which would not have been affected by the Revised Book were only exercising their full legal rights in throwing out a Measure which was approved by the majority of English Members of Parliament.

The interpretations of these courts-for example, Supreme Court interpretations of the constitution or federal statutes-are stable only so long as the older interpretation maintains the support of a majority of the court.

Official sources only states “ the majority of the population is mulatto ” (“… maioritariamente mestiça …”) without stating any number.

Unlike its predecessor games, CoC assumed that most investigators would not survive, alive or sane, and that the only safe way to deal with the vast majority of nasty things described in the rule books was to run away.

An attempt to increase majority elements by tweaking the system parameters ( more smaller districts, d ' Hondt method used ) by ČSSD and ODS during their " opposition agreement " 1998 – 2002 was vehemently opposed by smaller parties and blocked by the Constitutional Court as going too much against the constitution-stated proportional principle ; only a moderated form was adopted.

The only faction to ever gain a majority of Knesset seats was Alignment, an alliance of the Labor Party and Mapam that held an absolute majority for a brief period from 1968-1969.

The majority of enemy contacts were at ranges of less than 300 meters ( 325 yards ), and the enemy was exposed to fire for only short periods of time as they moved from cover to cover.

To proceed with reforms opposed by the majority of the communist party, Gorbachev aimed to consolidate power in a new position, President of the Soviet Union, which was independent from the CPSU and the soviets ( councils ) and whose holder could be impeached only in case of direct violation of the law.

In time, cable television was widely established to carry available Canadian stations as well as import American stations, which constituted the vast majority of signals on systems ( usually only one or two Canadian stations, while some systems had duplicate or even triplicate coverage of American networks ).

It was regarded as a Protestant custom by the Roman Catholic majority along the lower Rhine, and was spread there only by Prussian officials who were moved there in the wake of the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

Eisenhower had a Republican Congress for only his first two years in office ; in the Senate, the Republican majority was by a one vote margin.

The majority of works in the 1960s were also about the Jewish diaspora, but in 2002 only two out of 20 books sampled ( out of a total of 253 ) were about the Jewish case, with a total of eight different diasporas covered.

How much and how many profits could a majority take out of the losses of a few??

A few years later, in 1981, IBM introduced the first DOS based IBM PC, and due to the overwhelming popularity of PCs and their clones, DOS soon became the operating system on which the majority of BBS programs were run.

The majority of aggressive encounters are initiated by coyotes, and there are few reports of red foxes acting aggressively toward coyotes except when attacked or when their pups were approached.

However, since the majority of Urdu-speakers settled in the cities and few settled in rural Cholistan, the countryside maintains a strong Saraiki community.

The vast majority of people with AIDS have never received antiretroviral drugs, including those in developed countries prior to the licensure of AZT ( zidovudine ) in 1987, and people in developing countries today where very few individuals have access to these medications.

A few parts of the Book of Ezra ( 4: 8 to 6: 18 and 7: 12: 12-26 ) were written in Aramaic, and the majority in Hebrew, Ezra himself being skilled in both languages.

Within a few years a majority of households were FM equipped, by the 1980s a majority of cars sold had FM stereo radios and a majority of listening in the U. S. was devoted to FM signals according to the Arbitron rating service.

The Nazis did not expect the majority of prisoners taken to the Belzec, Treblinka, and Sobibor extermination camps to survive more than a few hours beyond arrival.

The majority of the films of this period set out to do no more than entertain the audience and had few pretensions to artistry or active engagement with social issues.

The majority of the Spanish population, with few exceptions, left Gibraltar when the Dutch and English took the village in 1704.

Despite the majority opinion that Luke was a gentile writing to other gentiles, a few authors have challenged this view.

For a few days, the entire IRC network suffered frequent netsplits, but eventually the majority of servers added the Q-line and effectively created a new separate IRC net called EFnet ( Eris-Free Network ); the remaining servers who stayed connected to eris ( and thus were no longer able to connect to EFnet servers ) were called A-net ( Anarchy Network ).

Major never succeeded in reconciling the " Euro-rebels " among his MPs to his European policy, who although relatively few in number-in spite of the fact that their views were much more widely supported amongst Conservative activists and voters-wielded great influence because of his small majority, and episodes such as the Maastricht Rebellion inflicted serious political damage on him and his government.

Richard Bauckham states that although a few scholars have questioned the James passage, " the vast majority have considered it to be authentic ", and that among the several accounts of the death of James the account in Josephus is generally considered to be historically the most reliable.

The majority of these recipes are not employed today, as there are few companies to be found that produce them.

Aside from the few units that were able to escape to Saudi Arabia, including a majority of the air force, all of this equipment was either destroyed or taken by the Iraqis.

When a legislator needs a few more votes to acquire a simple majority, he will seek support through a vote exchange.

In January 1912, the majority of the Bolshevik faction led by Lenin and a few Mensheviks held a conference in Prague and expelled their opponents from the party.

Today, the rise of cheap mass production means that this is no longer true, and, though a few expert locksmiths are also engineers and capable of sophisticated repairs and renovation work, the vast majority of locks are repaired by swapping of parts or like-for-like replacement, or upgraded to modern mass-production items.

According to the Neumark and Wascher, a large majority of the studies show negative effects for the minimum wage ; those showing positive effects are few, questionable, and disproportionately discussed.

No country currently has a Mormon majority, although Tonga is expected to be the first within the next few years.

The majority of the defenders were Africans slaves, with only a few Portuguese soldiers and Priests.