To guard against the tyranny of a numerical majority, Calhoun developed his theory of `` concurrent majority '', which, he said, `` by giving to each portion of the community which may be unequally affected by the action of government, a negative on the others, prevents all partial or local legislation ''.

Borrowing in anticipation of current taxes and other revenues is a routine procedure of the majority of municipalities at all times.

And while all concerned are members of the literal public, somewhat less than all concerned, although still a majority, form the quotation marked `` public ''.

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.

For all concerned with social-welfare legislation, the significance of this radical and revolutionary change in the thought and habits of the vast majority of the American people is clear, profound and far-reaching.

Sandman told the gathering that reports from workers on a local level all over the state indicate that Jones will be chosen the Republican Party's nominee with the largest majority given a candidate in recent years.

There were fusion tickets in which all of Lincoln's opponents combined to support the same slate of Electors in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, but even if the anti-Lincoln vote had been combined in every state, Lincoln still would have won a majority in the Electoral College.

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.

Primitive Baptists in the Appalachian region often used " New Britain " with other hymns, and sometimes sing the words of " Amazing Grace " to other folk songs, including titles such as " In the Pines ", " Pisgah ", " Primrose ", and " Evan ", as all are able to be sung in common meter, of which the majority of their repertoire consists.

Assault in some US jurisdictions is defined more broadly still as any intentional physical contact with another person without their consent ; but in the majority of the United States, and in England and Wales and all other common law jurisdictions in the world, this is defined instead as battery.

Congress passed a fourth Reconstruction Act ( again over a veto ) to provide for ratification of each state's constitution by a majority of those voting ( rather than requiring the vote to be all those registered ).

On all three occasions, 35 senators voted " guilty " and 19 " not guilty ", thus falling short by a single vote of the two-thirds majority required for conviction in impeachment trials.

It also remained the spoken tongue of the indigenous Assyrian / Babylonian citizens of all Mesopotamia under Persian, Greek and Roman rule, and indeed well into the Arab period it was still the language of the majority, particularly in the north of Mesopotamia, surviving to this day among the Assyrian Christians.

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 dsDNA tailed phages, or Caudovirales, account for 95 % of all the phages reported in the scientific literature, and possibly make up the majority of phages on the planet.

Nearly all beer includes barley malt as the majority of the starch.

MAJSAT, which asks if the majority of all assignments make the formula true, is complete for PP, a probabilistic class.

Usually, a meeting which is held without notice having been given is still valid if all of the directors attend, but it has been held that a failure to give notice may negate resolutions passed at a meeting, because the persuasive oratory of a minority of directors might have persuaded the majority to change their minds and vote otherwise.

# the Mozarabic Breviary, once in use throughout all Spain, but now confined to a single foundation at Toledo ; it is remarkable for the number and length of its hymns, and for the fact that the majority of its collects are addressed to God the Son ;

During his rule, members of Yakoma were granted all key positions in the administration and made up a majority of the military.

Some states permit plaintiff's counsel to settle for all the mass action plaintiffs according to a majority vote, for example.

The majority of such attempts, however, except in a general manner, end in futility since " affinities " lie at the basis of all magic, thereby pre-dating science.

George Every claims that the existence of " myths in the Bible would now be admitted by nearly everyone ", including " probably all Roman Catholics and a majority of Protestants ".

Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, with the majority of the murders occurring between 1987 and 1991.

A majority of the murders were politically motivated, though a number of assassinations of random police and carabinieri officers took place, as well as a number of murders occurring during criminal ventures such as bank robberies and kidnappings.

Males are historically believed to be generally more physically aggressive than females from an early age, and men commit the vast majority of murders ( Buss 2005 ).

The majority of the murders occurred between May 1973 and August 1979 at their home in 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester.

After this, Polish opinion turned strongly against the occupying army, especially the organisation responsible for the majority of civilian murders, the SS.

A majority of the murders occurred between 1982 and 1984.

While the police were not convinced that all the murders were the actions of one person, much of the public believed so ; the connection between a majority of the victims and hospitals was widely discussed.

The majority of the murders are still unsolved, although police from the Purana Taskforce believe that Carl Williams was responsible for ten of them.

These reports alone list an additional 1, 500, 000 or so murders during mass shootings, the vast majority of these victims were Jews.

Besides the outright murders, majority of deaths in the camps resulted from physical exhaustion and typhus epidemics.

The jury found him guilty of nine murders by a 6: 2 majority ( sufficient for a conviction under Austrian law at the time ).

The vast majority of the service is the reading of the weekly Bible lesson supplied by Boston, and the order of the service set out by the Manual.

In May 2007 a single-issue political party, the Independent Bypass Group, campaigning for a bypass to be built around Boston, Lincolnshire, took control of Boston Borough Council, removing the Labour Party majority.

A majority of the trust's stock was controlled by the Taylor family, publishers of the Boston Globe.

Delta Air Lines and US Airways also carry out many operations from the airport, and all major airlines fly to Boston from all or the majority of their primary and secondary hubs.

The term Main Army had come into use during the Siege of Boston, because the majority of Continental Army regiments were assigned to it.

The BRA's dealings with Boston's West End had created an atmosphere of distrust towards urban renewal in Boston, and Charlestown residents opposed the plan by an overwhelming majority.

" This, however, did not quell the differences of opinion in the Boston church, and a majority of the members were of the opinion of Hutchinson, and proposed that Wheelwright join the church ministry.

Powell wrote the majority opinion in First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti ( 1978 ), which overturned a Massachusetts law restricting corporate contributions to referendum campaigns not directly related to their business.

However, the city, along with the provincial and federal governments, decided to bargain with the Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ) to purchase the majority of the Mill Street Yard near the neo-gothic Union Station for a highway alignment which would run through the middle of the city ( somewhat like the infamous Interstate 93 alignment which was built through Boston ).

The network is a joint venture between Fenway Sports Group ( owners of Liverpool F. C., Boston Red Sox and an 80 % majority share in the network ) and Delaware North ( owners of the Boston Bruins and the remaining share in the network )

For the majority of the strip, he and his friends lived in Boston, where he worked in Medicaid Billing and worked in theater.

That team was owned by Whalers and Boston Celtics majority owner Bob Schmertz and three of his New York-based limited business partners ; Henry Fujawski, John Lander and Steven Cohen who together made up the core of the Stars ownership and like Baldwin hadn't had to pay a franchise fee.

When NHL play resumed, he struggled with the Boston Bruins in the 2005 – 06 season, managing only eight wins, while being a healthy scratch for the majority of the season.

He spent the majority of his 16-season playing career with the Chicago White Stockings and the Boston Beaneaters.

The majority of students matriculate to a broad variety of programs including Juilliard, University of Southern California, New York University ( Tisch ), The Boston Conservatory, University of Michigan, San Francisco Art Institute, Curtis Institute, New England Conservatory, Rhode Island School of Design, Eastman, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, CalArts and Stanford University.

In 1967, a majority share of the company was acquired by the Boston, Massachusetts-based conglomerate Gillette Group.

Thayer spent the great majority of the next 30 years as the chief engineer for the Boston area.

The next year, Marriott spent $ 331 million to take over the Ritz-Carlton Atlanta and buy a majority interest in two properties owned by William Johnson, a real estate developer who had purchased the Ritz-Carlton Boston in 1983 and expanded his Ritz holdings over the next twenty years.

According to this chronology, " the majority of the Boston chapter had left in 1974 " and in April 1977 " 70 % of the Bay Area chapter of PLP " also left the organization, " just about the only remaining one with significant mass work " ( O ' Brein, Five Retreats ).

Until the 1930s, the majority went to Boston as a center of business and industry.

In October 2004, Boston magazine publisher Metrocorp announced that it bought a majority stake in the Weekly Dig.

Some of his portraits are in the possession of the public library of Lexington, Massachusetts, and of the Massachusetts Historical Society, but most of them are privately owned and are scattered over the country, the majority being in Boston.