Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.

Prior to 1954 I imagine that a majority of Southerners would have voted against the Confederacy.

and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.

Although one meets with occasional extremists like Zachrisson or, very recently, Arthur Wade-Evans the majority of scholars have taken a middle position between the extremes of scepticism and gullibility.

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 great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.

Further, and as an evidence of legislative intent only, the Senate of the United States recently defeated by a substantial majority the `` Holland Amendment '' to the Fair Labor Standards Act, which would have specifically limited the regulatory authority of the Secretary in these matters.

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.

Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

Had the AMD been allowed to depreciate to its market level, exports would have become more competitive and the purchasing power of the majority of the population who are dependent on remittances from abroad would have increased.

The majority Arminian view accepts classical theism – the belief that God's power, knowledge, and presence have no external limitations, that is, outside of His divine nature.

The extreme of Calvinism is hyper-Calvinism, which insists that signs of election must be sought before evangelization of the unregenerate takes place and that the eternally damned have no obligation to repent and believe, and on the extreme of Arminianism is Pelagianism, which rejects the doctrine of original sin on grounds of moral accountability ; but the overwhelming majority of Protestant, evangelical pastors and theologians hold to one of these two systems or somewhere in between.

Many actors train at length in special programs or colleges to develop these skills, and today the vast majority of professional actors have undergone extensive training.

The majority of aircraft power their avionics using 14-or 28 ‑ volt DC electrical systems ; however, larger, more sophisticated aircraft ( such as airliners or military combat aircraft ) have AC systems operating at 400 Hz, 115 volts AC.

Unlike most Common-law jurisdictions, the majority of civil law jurisdictions have specialized courts or sections to deal with administrative cases which, as a rule, will apply procedural rules specifically designed for such cases and different from that applied in private-law proceedings, such as contract or tort claims.

The majority of ammeters are either connected in series with the circuit carrying the current to be measured ( for small fractional amperes ), or have their shunt resistors connected similarly in series.

While the coast of BC and certain valleys in the south-central part of the province have mild weather, the majority of BC's land mass experiences a cold winter temperate to subarctic climate similar to the rest of Canada.

Although Hutus encompass the majority of the population, historically Tutsis have been politically and economically dominant.

The great majority of today's bicycles have a frame with upright seating which looks much like the first chain-driven bike.

Surveys show that the majority of black Americans have no preference for " African American " or " Black ," although they have a slight preference for " black " in personal settings and " African-American " in more formal settings.

The majority of those who accepted the reform message have been disfellowshipped due to the Adventist church rejecting it.

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 vast majority of companies covered by the Act have hired internal auditors to ensure that the company adheres to required standards of internal control.

Most cardinals are already bishops at the time of their appointment, the majority being archbishops of important archdioceses or patriarchs, and a substantial portion of the rest already titular archbishops serving in the Vatican.

From the inception of Bob Jones College, a majority of students and faculty were northerners, and therefore many were already Republicans living in the " Solid South.

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 majority of recent population growth in Canada's three largest metropolitan areas ( Greater Toronto, Greater Montreal, and Greater Vancouver ) has occurred in non-core municipalities, although this trend has already reversed itself in Toronto, where a building boom has begun to take place.

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 had already granted U. S. citizenship to all persons born in the United States, as long as those persons were not subject to a foreign power ; the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment added this principle into the Constitution to prevent the Supreme Court from ruling the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to be unconstitutional for lack of congressional authority to enact such a law and to prevent a future Congress from altering it by a mere majority vote.

His first major act is to change the official language of the East Roman Empire from Latin to Greek ( already the language of the vast majority of the population ).

His first major act is to change the official language of the East Roman Empire from Latin to Greek ( already the language of the vast majority of the population ).

The Committee of Ministers may, by majority vote, request the Court to give advisory opinions on legal questions concerning the interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights, unless the matter relates to the content and scope of fundamental rights which the Court already considers.

The intestinal epithelium secretes further digestive enzymes and absorbs the released nutrients, although the majority of digestion has already taken place externally or in the mouth.

Previous Speakers have been minority leaders ( when the majority party changes, as they are already the House party leader, and as the minority leader is usually their party's nominee for speaker ), or majority leaders ( upon departure of the current speaker in the majority party ), assuming that the party leadership hierarchy is followed.

It should be noted that the majority of its members were already members of affiliated organisations, such as the Women's Council, the Democratic Youth Organisation and the trade unions, all of which were controlled by the PDPA.

Labour had already lost its majority in the House of Commons when he became Prime Minister and lost further seats at by-elections and through defections, forcing Callaghan to deal with minor parties such as the Liberal Party especially in the Lib-Lab pact from 1977 to 1978, the Ulster Unionists, Scottish National Party and even Independents.

Currently the Portuguese military forces number 44, 900 with the majority of the manpower allocated to the Army although its Chief of Staff, General José Ramalho, has already stated that more men are needed.

Although these bugs were quickly patched up, the damage of the negative publicity had already been done, especially with the majority of the gaming press reviewing the unpatched version.

* American Association of Individual Investors ( AAII ) sentiment indicator: Many feel that the majority of the decline has already occurred once this indicator gives a reading of minus 15 % or below.

The majority of printed circuit boards today are made from purchased laminate material with copper already applied to both sides.

However, her son Louis XIII, already several years into his legal majority, asserted his authority the next year.

At that stage the population in its majority had already changed from an economy based on hunting and gathering to one based on agriculture and animal husbandry.

However, President Ulysses S. Grant, the Republican incumbent, had already won an absolute majority of electors.

The majority of those currently detained are imprisoned pending trial, the remaining 40 % having already been sentenced.

In April 1539 Parliament passed a new law retrospectively legalising acts of voluntary surrender, but by then the vast majority of monasteries in England, and Wales had already been dissolved.

During the rise of nationalism in the region the Romanians already had a solid majority and there was little of the ethnic friction that were to be found elsewhere in Transylvania ( see Magyarization and Romanianization ).