" When Li ' l Abner made its debut in 1934, the vast majority of comic strips were designed chiefly to amuse or thrill their readers.

Despite enjoying widespread support by the majority of Haitians, the Washington Post informed their readers that regime change was looming on November 21, 2003: " Aristide has pushed with mixed success a populist agenda of higher minimum wages, school construction, literacy programs, higher taxes on the rich and other policies that have angered an opposition movement run largely by a mulatto elite that has traditionally controlled Haiti's economy.

In its most ideal form, news writing strives to be intelligible to the majority of readers, as well as to be engaging and succinct.

The majority of readers were of course women.

The majority of early readers focused primarily on autobiographical connections from Plath to the protagonist.

The majority of the series ' demographic are ' reluctant readers ', who like books they can " pick one up, read a small section, and then put it down again ".

A perceptive subset of those readers — perhaps the majority — know that this so-called epic actually consists of two long and mutually dependent tales, the two Hyperion stories combined and the two Endymion stories combined, broken into four books because of the realities of publishing.

In it, Gettier proposed two scenarios where the three criteria ( justification, truth, and belief ) seemed to be met, but where the majority of readers would not have felt that the result was knowledge due to the element of luck involved.

Vintage material, though popular with readers, was not the majority of the content.

The readers seemed to agree with Parkins, as " Bea " won the vote by a nearly two-thirds majority.

" When Li ' l Abner made its debut in 1934, the vast majority of comic strips were designed chiefly to amuse or thrill their readers.

The majority of the contributors and readers are mainland Chinese Internet users.

He hinted at present political and scientific debates on environment issues as a design to suppress freedom and democracy, and asked the readers to oppose the term " scientific consensus ", adding that " it is always achieved only by a loud minority, never by a silent majority ".

Years later, Hawthorne's son Julian wrote, " The majority of readers will, I think, not be inconsolable that poor Margaret Fuller has at last taken her place with the numberless other dismal frauds who fill the limbo of human pretension and failure.

To the majority of modern readers, even more useful is the wealth of information provided in the Deipnosophists about earlier Greek literature.

The majority of readers belong to the middle class with relatively high incomes and educational level.

The vast majority of Internet erotica is of an amateur nature, written for the enjoyment of the author and readers instead of for profit.

The majority of novels of that era were whodunnits, and several authors excelled, after successfully leading their readers on the wrong track, in convincingly revealing to them the least likely suspect as the real villain of the story.

According to Hearst's mistress and protégé Marion Davies in her posthumously published memoirs The Times We Had, Parsons had encouraged readers to " give this girl a chance " while the majority of critics disparaged Davies ; it was on this basis that Hearst hired Parsons.

The majority of readers are of the age of 19-25 ( 50 %) and 26-35 ( 32 %).

For readers that are acquainted with hydrodynamics the majority of the cases cited as paradoxes belong either to the category of mistakes long since rectified, or in the category of discrepancies between theory and experiments the reasons for which are also well understood.

In other words, Nima realized that while some readers were enthused by the charms of the lover and the coquettish ways of the beloved, the majority preferred heroes with whom they could identify.

Gay News readers voted by a majority of 20 to 1 in favour of appealing to the House of Lords.

In 2003 the readers of Gazeta Wyborcza and the spectators of the Warsaw branch of the public television elected Starzyński as the Varsovian of the Century by a huge majority of votes.

Of those remaining Adventist, the majority gave up believing in any prophetic ( biblical ) significance for the October 22 date, yet they remained expectant of the near Advent ( second coming of Jesus ).

While the popular vote total was close, with Cleveland winning by just one-quarter of a percent, the electoral votes gave Cleveland a majority of 219 – 182.

As the 1991 elections gave no political party a majority, the INC formed a minority government under Prime Minister P. V.

In meetings of his own Mississippi legislature, Davis had argued against secession ; but when a majority of the delegates opposed him, he gave in.

This agreement gave Lithuanians control of the city of Vilnius (, ), the old Lithuanian capital, but a city with a majority Polish population.

The final results gave the DRP and the PA 28 and seven seats respectively, three short of a parliamentary majority.

Later that year, Foot was elected Deputy Leader and served as Leader of the House of Commons, which gave him the unenviable task of trying to maintain the survival of the Callaghan government as its majority evaporated.

The subsequent general election, held 15 November 1994, gave no party a majority and led to several years of unstable coalition governments.

In 1995, the executive and legislative branches negotiated a reform of the 1987 Sandinista constitution which gave extensive new powers and independence to the National Assembly, including permitting the Assembly to override a presidential veto with a simple majority vote and eliminating the president's ability to pocket veto a bill.

The terms of the settlement are confidential, but it was reported that under its terms Davis purchased the McGah family's interest in the Raiders ( approximately 31 percent ), which gave him for the first time a majority interest, speculated to be approximately 67 percent of the team.

A majority of those leaders took advantage of a law that gave credits for renouncing the doctrine ( dissociato status ) and contributing to efforts by police and judiciary to prosecute its members (" collaboratore di giustizia ", also known as pentito ).

The Left Opposition in the Soviet Union gave rise to Trotskyism which was to remain isolated and insignificant for another fifty years, except in Sri Lanka, where Trotskyism gained the majority and the pro-Moscow wing was expelled from the Communist Party.

Subsequent elections in 1970 and 1974 gave Mancham a small majority in votes, but a large one in seats, through the " first past the post " voting system.

To counter this presumed difficulty, the delegates gave each presidential elector two votes, required at least one of those votes be for a candidate from outside the elector's state, and mandated that the winner of the election obtain an absolute majority with respect to the total number of electors.

For example, in the first half of 2001, the Senators were divided 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats and Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote gave the Republicans the Senate majority.

Opposition parties won a majority of parliamentary seats in the December, 2001 election, but subsequent by-elections gave the ruling MMD a slim majority in Parliament.

* March 25 – The Pakistani army starts Operation Searchlight in East Pakistan from midnight, after President Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, a military ruler, voids election results that gave the Awami League an overwhelming majority in the parliament.

Elections in March 1920 gave the Agrarians a large majority and Aleksandar Stamboliyski formed Bulgaria's first peasant government.

It gave weapons, training and military bases to colonised nations fighting for independence or majority rule.

" His neoliberal policies were also criticized by the majority of the population and by some in the Catholic Church, and gave rise to the Piquetero movement of unemployed workers.

This gave him a clear majority in the Legislative Council.

December 2002 legislative elections gave his newly formed TIM ( Tiako-I-Madagasikara ) ( I Love Madagascar ) Party a commanding majority in the National Assembly.

The majority in the Uitvoerend Bewind ( Gerrit Pijman in particular ) therefore amended the project in a sense that gave re-federalization even more emphasis.