Jean-Marie Le Pen, however, was widely recognized as a controversial nationalist candidate, and in the second round a vast majority of the voters rejected him:

Le Pen was then defeated by a large margin in the second round, when incumbent president Jacques Chirac obtained 82 % of the votes, thus securing the biggest majority in the history of the Fifth Republic.

Gautier spent the majority of his career as a journalist at La Presse and later on at Le Moniteur universel.

Titled Legend of Earthsea, it angered fans of the Earthsea novels ( and Le Guin herself ) with the announcement that Ged and the vast majority of the other characters would be played by Caucasians and with the Dramatis personæ posted on the official website ( see below ), which featured several original characters such as " The Archmagus " and " King Tygath ", " Diana ", " Penelope ", and " Marion ", and several references to " Kargide " ( not Kargad, Karg, or Kargish ) characters.

A Le Monde / IFOP poll in January 2011 conducted in France and Germany found that a majority felt Muslims have " not integrated properly.

City of Illusions is significant because it lays the foundation for the Hainish cycle, a fictional world in which the majority of Ursula K. Le Guin's Science Fiction novels take place.

When he arrived at Le Havre, however, he discovered the French Wars of Religion had broken out between the Roman Catholic majority and the Protestant Huguenots.

Her candidature was endorsed by an overwhelming majority of senior executives and notably by Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the FN.

A survey published in Le Soir on February 14, 2005, indicated that in all six rim municipalities, the majority of the population was French-speaking ( the study was unofficial, since the public authorities refuse to undertake a census ).

Since 2000 Speed Channel has broadcast the majority ALMS races, including the 12 Hours of Sebring and Petit Le Mans, while some of the series ' other races have been broadcast on ABC, NBC, and CBS.

I have no intent of becoming the majority owner of Fauchon ”, says Michel Ducros to the magazine Le Figaro Entreprises.

In the Church of Sainte Marie de La Tourette Le Corbusier floors the majority of the church in pale concrete panels set to Modulor dimensions.

14 June 2004: Oscar Temaru elected President ( Le président de la Polynésie française ) ( when a simple majority quorum was required ), gaining 30 out of 57 votes.

Gaston Flosse was re-elected ( Le président de la Polynésie française ) by a one-vote majority and sworn in immediately during a parliamentary session boycotted by caretaker President Oscar Temaru.

23 October 2004: a Council of State ( French national supreme administrative court ) judge rejected two petitions from Tahiti to suspend the October 9 censure motion that toppled French Polynesia President ( Le président de la Polynésie française ) Oscar Temaru ’ s majority coalition government.

A majority of the vehicles used in this class are comparable to those used in the American Le Mans Series GT classes.

Between 1914 and 1918 they produced 25, 000 of their 9-cylinder Delta and Le Rhône 110 hp ( 81 kW ) rotary designs, while another 75, 000 were produced by various licensees, powering the majority of aircraft in the first half of the war on both sides of the conflict.

Le Mans spent the majority of its infancy in Ligue 2.

Unlike the Battle of Mons, where the majority of casualties inflicted by the British were from rifle fire, Le Cateau was an artilleryman's battle, demonstrating the devastating results which modern quick-firing artillery using airbursting shrapnel shells could have on infantry advancing in the open.

Taxation of tangible movable property in Rhode Island has been generally of a `` hands off '' nature due possibly to several reasons: ( 1 ) local assessors, in the main, are not well paid and have inadequate office staffs, ( 2 ) the numerous categories of this component of personal property make locating extremely difficult, and ( 3 ) the inexperience of the majority of assessors in evaluating this type of property.

The vast majority of energy is produced with imported fuel, including gas and nuclear fuel ( for its one nuclear power plant ) from Russia ; the main domestic energy source is hydroelectric.

When the trade association began, it had seven members and its main goal was to eliminate all duties and restrictions on the majority of their trade within 12 years.

The main reason for the lack of support for these efforts was that the vast majority of Creoles, especially the plantation owners, rejected any kind of separatism, considering Spain's power essential to the maintenance of slavery.

The 1922 election saw the main anti-Labor party, the Nationalist Party of Australia deprived of a majority, and were required to form a coalition in order to command a majority on the floor of parliament.

The majority of islands are low coral atolls in the Northern Group, with Rarotonga, a volcanic island in the Southern Group, as the main administration and government centre.

However, the majority of the important decisions are held not in the main meetings themselves, but at the informal ' retreats ': introduced at the second CHOGM, in Ottawa, by Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau, but reminiscent of the excursions to Chequers or Dorneywood in the days of the Prime Ministers ' Conferences.

The majority of the North American Bereans re-joined the main body of Christadelphians in 1952 ; though a small number continue as a separate community to the present day.

It has two main groups: " straights ", now the minority, emphasize vitalism, innate intelligence and spinal adjustments, and consider vertebral subluxations to be the cause of all disease ; " mixers ", the majority, are more open to mainstream views and conventional medical techniques, such as exercise, massage, and ice therapy.

The main trunk road network reflects the centralising tradition of France: the majority of them leave the gates of Paris.

In the January 25, 2006 parliamentary election, the party lost its majority in the Palestinian parliament to Hamas, and resigned all cabinet positions, instead of assuming the role as the main opposition party.

Its two main strongholds were southwest France and Normandy, but even in these districts the Catholics were a majority.

While the majority of his films lost money at the box office ( the main reason for Santana's end ), at least two of them are still remembered today ; In a Lonely Place is now recognized as a masterpiece of film noir.

Although formally organised party politics plays no role in the States of Jersey assembly, members often vote together in two main blocs – a minority of members, holding broadly progressive views and critical of the Council of Ministers versus a majority of members, of conservative ideology, who support the Council of Ministers.

By the fifth to 4th centuries BC, the island had grown to an estimated population of over 120, 000 ( two to three times the estimated population in 2005 ), and based on the huge necropoli at the main city of Chios, the asty, it is thought the majority lived in that area.

The majority of the main characters — Daniel ( the narrator ), Susan, Todd, Bug, Michael, and Abe — are living together in a " geek house ", and their lives are dedicated to their projects and the company.

The majority of stars on a typical HR diagram lie along the main sequence curve.

For the majority this is their sole or main means of respiration.

# Very large coalitions, representing a supermajority larger than the absolute majority ( 61 seats ), and thus giving the coalition's main faction ( the Prime minister's ) more options.

The majority of these ( 234, 12 and 33 respectively ) are found on the main island.

While the majority of plutinos have low orbital inclinations, a substantial number of them follow orbits similar to that of Pluto, with inclinations in the 10 – 25 ° range and eccentricities around 0. 2 – 0. 25, resulting in perihelia inside ( or close to ) the orbit of Neptune and aphelia close to the main Kuiper belt's outer edge ( where objects have 1: 2 resonance with Neptune ).

The main difference between a nonpartisan blanket primary and a standard two-round system is that a second round of voting is required, even if one candidate wins an absolute majority of votes in the primary.

Soon after, the two main opponents to Morton, the Member for Earlwood, Eric Willis, and Askin, declared that they would only take the Leadership if they were given an absolute majority of 28 votes.

The Politics of Sri Lanka reflect the historical and political differences between the two main ethnic groups, the majority Sinhala and the minority Tamils, who are concentrated in the north and east of the island.