Amalric, who had been given the County of Jaffa as an apanage when he reached the age of majority in 1151, remained loyal to Melisende in Jerusalem, and when Baldwin invaded the south, Amalric was besieged in the Tower of David with his mother.

The governors were appointed from both Catholic and Protestant cantons and since they changed every two years, neither faith gained a majority in the County.

About three to five pets attacked by coyotes are brought into the Animal Urgent Care hospital of south Orange County ( California ) each week, the majority of which are dogs, since cats typically do not survive the attacks.

However, the vast majority of its seats were lost at the 2009 council elections, including its entire traditional Dublin base, where-with the exception of a Town Council Seat in Balbriggan-it now holds no council seats at all in Dublin and only three County Council seats in total.

The majority of the lawsuit was dismissed in April 2004, when an Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled that the case lacked merit since none of the other partners took part in the lawsuit.

Most Slovenes lived in the administrative region known as Inner Austria, forming the majority of the population of the Duchy of Carniola and the County of Gorizia and Gradisca, as well as of Lower Styria and southern Carinthia.

Twin Ridges Elementary in Nevada County, California held the first Green Party majority school board in the United States.

The majority of the capital city of Northern Ireland, Belfast, is also in County Antrim, with the remainder being in County Down.

County Antrim is one of two counties in Ireland in which the majority of people are Protestant, according to the 2001 census, the other being Down.

The majority of County Antrim residents are administered by the following nine councils:

* 2008: A September 2008 report revealed that Benton County, of which Corvallis makes up the majority of the population, is ranked 5th for longest life expectancy at birth of all counties in the United States, at 80. 93 years.

The majority of votes in the referendum were in favor of unification of the entire city in Montgomery County.

The last Democrat to win a majority in Cortland County prior to Obama was Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

This map shows the location of the majority of the Tohono O ' odham Nation in Pima County, Arizona | Pima County, highlighting the large Tohono O ' odham Reservation as well as the smaller San Xavier Reservation in red.

Among counties whose population contains a non-Hispanic white majority, it is the poorest by per-capita income and second to another county in the same Kentucky region, Owsley County, by median household income.

* In Romania, Serbs are located mostly within the Caraş-Severin County, where they constitute absolute majority in the commune of Pojejena ( 52. 09 %) and a plurality in the commune of Socol ( 49. 54 %) Serbs also constitute an absolute majority in the municipality of Sviniţa ( 87. 27 %) in the Mehedinţi County.

It is located in parts of Kleberg, Kenedy, and Willacy counties, with Kenedy County having the majority of its land area.

During the Middle Ages, it was first part of the Patriarchate of Aquileia, and later of Tolmin County, before being included in the Habsburg Monarchy in the 15th century, like the majority of Slovene-speaking territories.

The vast majority of state government agencies and departments are headquartered in Sacramento or in parts of Sacramento County near the city of Sacramento ; in turn, the larger agencies and departments also have local offices around the state which report to headquarters in Sacramento.

Unionists tend to lean towards preserving the grammar schools as they are, with academic selection at the age of 11, whereas republican politicians lean towards scrapping the Eleven Plus, despite vehement protestations from the majority of Catholic Grammar Schools, most notably by the board of governors at Rathmore Grammar School in Finaghy, ( a south Belfast suburb ) and Lumen Christi ( although co-educational ) in Londonderry.

... it is offensive and insensitive to the majority of people to use " Londonderry " at the total exclusion of " Derry ".

Immigration to the Chipman area escalated rapidly in the 1820s through the 1850s, with the large majority of new arrivals hailing from the northern counties of Ireland, in particular: Donegal, Londonderry, and Tyrone.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

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.

It was my desire to advise the membership of the Legion that the majority of polling places are on private property and, without an amendment to the law, we could not enforce this.

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.

With the return of our soldiers, it soon became apparent that the belief was not shared by the great majority of citizens.

To try to oppose the general religious and moral conviction of such a majority by a legislative fiat would be to invite the same breakdown of law and order that was occasioned by the ill-starred Prohibition experiment.

During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis -- the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants -- it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties.

The 1857 Congressional rejection of the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution was the first multi-party solid-North vote, and that solid vote was anti-slavery to support the anti-slavery majority in Kansas Territory.

It held that slavery in the territories was to be allowed as a property right to any settler, even where the majority opposed slavery.

A social movement that was individualist, egalitarian and perfectionist grew to a political democratic majority attacking slavery, and slavery ’ s defense in the Southern pre-industrial traditional society brought the two sides to war.

The Secretary promulgated the Constitution of American Samoa which was approved by a Constitutional Convention of the people of American Samoa and a majority of the voters of American Samoa voting at the 1966 election, and came into effect in 1967.

) After the dispute over Arianism became politicized and a general solution to the divisiveness was sought — with a great majority holding to the Trinitarian position — the Arian position was officially declared heterodox.

The Germanic elites were Arians, and the majority population was Nicene.

In a culture that set a high value on oratory and public performances of all kinds, in which the production of books was very labor-intensive, the majority of the population was illiterate, and where those with the leisure to enjoy literary works also had slaves to read for them, written texts were more likely to be seen as scripts for recitation than as vehicles of silent reflection.

Labor was the first party in Australia to win a majority in either house of the Australian Parliament, at the 1910 federal election.

The general impression was that, as much as the senate was packed with men devoted to the royal couple and the government obtained a large majority at the general elections, King Alexander would not hesitate any longer to proclaim Queen Draga's brother as the heir to the throne.

The 1841 – 42 legislative session, with Whigs having a majority in the House chamber and the Democrats a smaller majority in the Senate, was marked by an impasse over the election of Tennessee's two United States senators.

In 1843, Johnson was the first Democrat to run for, and win, election as the U. S. representative from Tennessee's 1st congressional district, and joined a new Democratic majority in the House.

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.