Amendments to the Convention must be supported by a two-thirds majority who are " present and voting " and can be made during an extraordinary meeting of the COP if one-third of the Parties are interested in such a meeting.

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.

The majority of scholars tend to understand Plotinus ' opponents as being a Gnostic sect — certainly ( specifically Sethian ), several such groups were present in Alexandria and elsewhere about the Mediterranean during Plotinus ' lifetime.

Since the Iraq War, evangelicalism has begun to make inroads in Iraq, capitalizing on a new openness to Western missionaries following the US-led invasion of the country, although the vast majority of converts are from other sects of Christianity present in Iraq .< ref >

Following a process of decolonization in the 20th century the vast majority of the empire became independent ; however, its cultural impact is widespread and deep in many countries of the present day.

The first support was Dr. Thorndike's paper ; the second was a concession by proponents of the systematic languages that thousands of words were already present in many – or even a majority – of the European languages.

The House of Representatives must first pass, by a simple majority of those present and voting, articles of impeachment, which constitute the formal allegation or allegations.

To convict the accused, a two-thirds majority of the senators present is required.

If there is no charge for which a two-thirds majority of the senators present vote " guilty ", the defendant is acquitted and no punishment is imposed.

Decisions in the States are taken by majority vote of the elected members present and voting.

In 1998, an ad hoc CCAR committee on Human Sexuality issued its majority report ( 11 to 1, 1 abstention ) which stated that the holiness within a Jewish marriage " may be present in committed same gender relationships between two Jews and that these relationships can serve as the foundation of stable Jewish families, thus adding strength to the Jewish community.

Shigeru Egami, Chief Instructor of Shotokan Dojo, opined " that the majority of followers of karate in overseas countries pursue karate only for its fighting techniques ... Movies and television ... depict karate as a mysterious way of fighting capable of causing death or injury with a single blow ... the mass media present a pseudo art far from the real thing.

Thus, although the composition of the group is slightly different in each instance, the large majority of men present are always close neighbors.

Of the 30, 000 people of Chinese ancestry residing in Mauritius, the vast majority come from the Hakka and Cantonese provinces, both of which are well present among Malaysia's population of Chinese ancestry.

However, the Christian majority of the past, constituting around 65 % of the population at one point, has been shrinking, while the number of Muslims has steadily increased to its present 45 % of the population due to immigration from Muslim countries.

Although at present the majority of M & A advice is provided by full-service investment banks, recent years have seen a rise in the prominence of specialist M & A advisers, who only provide M & A advice ( and not financing ).

This process may have also created the present orbits of a significant fraction of the Jupiter-family comets, although the majority of such comets are thought to have originated in the scattered disc.

In the case of other bills, the president may prevent passage unless the legislature in joint sitting overrules the president by a majority of members of both houses present and voting.

Ministers had to present the government's policies, and negotiate with Members to gain the support of the majority ; they had to explain the government's financial needs, suggest ways of meeting them and give an account of how money had been spent.

The majority of the palace buildings are quadrangular in plan, with all the rooms opening on to a central court ; and the whole reached its present size simply by the gradual addition of new quadrangles, designed on the same principle, though varying in dimensions, and connected with each other by smaller rooms and passages.

In addition, requiring a two-thirds majority of those members " present " has the net effect of making a present member's decision not to cast a vote either way the same as a vote against conviction.

This is as contrasted with typical practice, where a proposition passes, or not, based on whether it receives the appropriate majority of however many votes were cast, irrespective of how many members were present but chose not to vote.

Writing for the majority, Justice Edward Terry Sanford declared that " utterances inciting to the overthrow of organized government by unlawful means, present a sufficient danger of substantive evil to bring their punishment within the range of legislative discretion .... Such utterances, by their very nature, involve danger to the public peace and to the security of the state.

Voting in the General Assembly on important questions – recommendations on peace and security ; election of members to organs ; admission, suspension, and expulsion of members ; budgetary matters – is by a two-thirds majority of those present and voting.

Since the 16th century, the majority of the city's inhabitants were German-speakers.

Hanover was chartered by Governor Benning Wentworth on July 4, 1761, and in 1765 – 1766 its first inhabitants arrived, the majority from Connecticut.

The majority of inhabitants of Pre-Islamic Arabia were henotheists.

The Arab countries ( all of which had opposed the plan ) proposed to query the International Court of Justice on the competence of the General Assembly to partition a country against the wishes of the majority of its inhabitants, but were again defeated.

Of the nations with a majority of Muslim inhabitants, Lebanon has an internal effort to legalize homosexuality.

The majority of the kingdom's inhabitants were native Christians, especially Greek and Syrian Orthodox, as well as Sunni and Shi ' a Muslims.

Escape for prisoners and slaves was probably not difficult, as the inhabitants of the countryside were majority Muslim, and fugitive slaves were always a problem.

If the inhabitants of Palestine were ready for independence under a Class “ A ” mandate, then the Palestinian Arabs that made up the majority of the inhabitants of Palestine in 1922 ( 589. 177 Arabs vs. 83. 790 Jews ) could then logically claim that they were the intended beneficiaries of the “ Mandate for Palestine ” – provided one never reads the actual wording of the document:

He wrote that " the majority of the inhabitants of Southern Serbia are Orthodox Christian Macedonians, ethnologically more akin to the Bulgarians than to the Serbs.

Mali consists of eight regions and its borders on the north reach deep into the middle of the Sahara, while the country's southern part, where the majority of inhabitants live, features the Niger and Sénégal rivers.

As administering power, the British Government considers since the majority of inhabitants wish to remain British, transfer of sovereignty to Argentina would be counter to their right to self-determination.

Ethnic Thais make up the majority of the population with 75 percent of all inhabitants.

During this early phase of history, the majority of Turkmenistan's inhabitants were either adherents of Zoroastrianism or Buddhism and the region was largely dominated by Iranian peoples.

The vast majority of inhabitants were converted to Hanifism, while the Balkar-HunOghuz brought the beginnings of the Turkic Turkmen language that came to dominate the area.

The state has approximately 2. 3 million inhabitants ( around 10 % of the national total ), the majority of whom live in the south-west corner of the state.

These indigenous inhabitants form a significant portion of the population of East Malaysia, however they do not represent the majority population.

Their emphasis was on the illegal nature of the Soviet system and that hundreds of thousands of inhabitants of Estonia had not ceased to be citizens of the Estonian Republic which still existed de jure, recognized by the majority of Western nations.

By the year 1700, under pressure from European colonists, the majority of these original inhabitants had been driven away.

kaupunki ) and the year after Finnish became the majority language of the inhabitants and Swedish the minority.

Agriculture employs more than 70 % of the labour force and provides livelihoods to the vast majority of about 20 million inhabitants, contributing more than 70 % to export earnings, mostly through the export of seafood ( mainly shrimps ), vanilla, coffee, cacao, litchi, pepper, cotton, tobacco, groundnut, sisal, clove and ylang-ylang.

The majority of inhabitants are Roman Catholic.

Agriculture employs more than 80 percent of the labour force and provides livelihoods to the vast majority of over 23 million inhabitants.

Ethnic Russians and Ukrainians make up the majority of the population ; the city on its own has more inhabitants than the entire neighboring Chukotka Autonomous Okrug or Magadan Oblast.