In 1919, after World War I, the eastern part ( with a majority of ethnic Poles ) came under Polish rule as the Silesian Voivodeship, while the mostly German-speaking western part remained part of the German Reich as the Province of Upper Silesia.

In 1905, the North-West Frontier Province ( today's Khyber Paskhtunkhwa ) was created and roughly corresponded to Pashtun majority regions within the British domain.

A survey prepared by the Russian imperial authorities in 1823, several years before the 1828 Armenian migration from Persia to the newly established Armenian Province, shows that all Armenians of Karabakh compactly resided in its highland portion, i. e. on the territory of the five traditional Armenian principalities in Nagorno Karabakh, and constituted an absolute demographic majority on those lands.

After several years of legislative paralysis in the Province of Canada caused by the need to maintain a double legislative majority ( a majority of both the Canada East and Canada West delegates in the Province of Canada ’ s legislature ), Macdonald had led his Liberal-Conservative Party into the Great Coalition with George-Étienne Cartier ’ s Parti bleu and George Brown ’ s Clear Grits.

In the mid-1990s, a population of 600 – 800 individuals may have lived in Yunnan Province, with the majority occurring in Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve.

But since the late 1980s and 1990s, the vast majority of new Chinese immigrants have come from mainland China, especially Fujian Province, and tend to speak Foochow along with Mandarin.

A majority of these Cubans hailed from small towns or cities, particularly Villa Clara Province in central Cuba.

The native Persian speakers of Iran dominate Tehran Province with a massive majority of 98. 5 % whilst other ethnic groups comprise 1. 5 % of the total population.

The majority of the Indus subspecies ( P. m. minor ) is located between the Sukkur and Guddu barrage in the Sind Province of Pakistan.

The majority of the conference took place at the colony's legislative building, Province House, although some social functions were held at Government House, the home of the colony's Lieutenant Governor.

* Budbud Festival, a barangay fiesta in honor of Nuestra Senora dela Regla of Begang Barangay, otherwise known as Isabela City's " Little Cebu ", a majority of whose residents originated from Carmen, Cebu Province.

Several peripherical districts of the Gorizia municipality ( Solkan, Pristava, Rožna Dolina, Kromberk, Šempeter pri Gorici, Vrtojba, Stara Gora, Ajševica, Volčja Draga, Bukovica, Vogrsko ) were handed over to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, together with the vast majority of the former Province of Gorizia.

* Provincial Capitol-constructed along elegant middle-eastern architectural lines reflecting the majority Muslim population ( 70 %) of the Island Province

Alfonsín, who had been elected leader of the party in July that year, defeated Justicialist Party candidate Ítalo Lúder by 12 points, carrying a majority in the Chamber of Deputies and, though garnering only 18 of 46 seats in the Senate and 7 of 22 governors, the UCR's Alejandro Armendáriz scored an upset victory in Buenos Aires Province, home to one in three Argentines.

According to the 1991 census in Yugoslavia, there were five municipalities with a Serb majority in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija.

She won the majority vote in two of the three largest cities of Argentina: Buenos Aires and Rosario, but she suffered a larger defeat in Buenos Aires Province, the most populated district, and could not force a run-off election.

The SDF won 43 seats in the National Assembly in the May 1997 parliamentary election, receiving its best results in Northwest Province, where it won 19 out of 20 seats ; it also won a majority of seats in West Province, with 15 out of 25.

The party's electoral success remained largely confined to the Northwest Province, where it again won a majority of seats, with 11 out of 20.

Brought on by the " push " of overpopulation in rural areas that could not sustain themselves under the seigneurial system of land tenure, but also because the expansion of this system was in effect blocked by the " Château Clique " that ruled the Province of Quebec under the new British governors, who reserved new land developments for the English and the English system of colonization ( see Eastern Townships ) and the " pull " of industrialization in New England, approximately 900, 000 residents of Quebec ( French Canadian for the great majority ) left for the United States seeking work.

Macdonald had led a coalition government in the former Province of Canada during the last pre-Confederation election, and the Liberal-Conservative Party that came out of that coalition now won a majority of the seats ( and votes ) in the new provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

The majority of Venda speakers live in the northern part of South Africa's Limpopo Province, but about 10 % of its speakers live in Zimbabwe.

The player with the largest number of shares is the " majority " shareholder, and the player with the second-largest number of shares is the " minority " shareholder.

If instead Betty and Carla both owned 7 shares, then Alex would keep the majority bonus for herself, while Betty and Carla would split the minority bonus.

Once the game ends, the minority and majority bonuses are paid to the minority and majority holders in each of the remaining chains ; each player sells his or her shares of stock in each of the remaining chains ; and the player with the most money wins.

Carnegie also bought out some regional competitors, and merged with others, usually maintaining the majority shares in the companies.

It was alleged that the directors had issued a large number of new shares purely to deprive a particular shareholder of his voting majority.

Brown recently purchased shares of the team owned by the estate of co-founder Austin Knowlton and is now the majority owner of the Bengals franchise.

In 1914, advertising executive Albert Lasker obtained a large block of the club's shares and before the 1916 season assumed majority ownership of the franchise.

In the overwhelming majority of cases, the Chapter 11 plan, when confirmed, terminates the shares of the company, rendering shares valueless.

While listed on the London Stock Exchange and the Singapore Exchange, the vast majority of Jardines shares are traded in Singapore.

There were recently 12 4 % shares to the team sold by the majority ownership group to provide a cash infusion for the team.

Holmes shares the majority of his professional years with his good friend and chronicler Dr. Watson, who lives with Holmes for some time before his marriage in 1887, and again after his wife's death.

In February 2006 he bought £ 240, 000 worth of shares in the club, making him the majority shareholder.

The mechanisms for his system are convincing if one shares Calhoun ’ s conviction that a functioning concurrent majority never leads to stalemate in the legislature ; rather, talented statesmen, practiced in the arts of conciliation and compromise would pursue “ the common good ”, however explosive the issue.

In 2000, the group bought out the majority of Orange Plc and the wholeness of the shares in 2003.

In a reverse takeover the shareholders of the company being acquired end up with a majority of the shares in, and so control of, the company making the bid.

Since the 2000 Arusha Peace Process, today in Burundi the Tutsi minority shares power in a more or less equitable manner with the Hutu majority.

Melvin Blume eventually sold his shares to his other son Kevin, giving the two Blume brothers a majority control of the company, now renamed TSR, Inc.

In 1962, Franklin Mieuli purchased the majority shares of the team and relocated the franchise to the San Francisco Bay Area, renaming them the San Francisco Warriors.

While neither company has any ownership in the other, the majority of the voting power of the shares in both companies is owned by Charlie Ergen.

The trust fund has a majority of voting shares in The Hershey Company, allowing it to keep control of the company.

SNCF has full or partial shares in a large number of companies, the majority of which are rail or transport related.

A worker cooperative, therefore, has the characteristic that the majority of its workforce owns shares, and the majority of shares are owned by the workforce.