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 Germanic elites were Arians, and the majority population was Nicene.

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.

By the early 1960s, most of East and Central Africa, where the majority of the Ismāʿīlī population on the continent resided including Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Malagasy, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire, had attained their political independence.

This excluded a majority of the population, namely slaves, freed slaves, children, women and metics.

Although English has no official status in the Constitution, Australian English is Australia's de facto official language and is the first language of the majority of the population.

The majority of the population ( 83 %) are Afro-Caribbean, descended from the slaves brought to the islands by the British.

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

The majority of the population is French, but there are sizable groups of Italians, Spaniards ( Up to 20 % of the Bordeaux population claim some degree of Spanish heritage ), Portuguese, Turks, Germans and North Africans ..

Deutero-Isaiah delivered his prophesies to this group, which was actually quite small – the majority of the population stayed in Judah.

The majority of the remaining population is in eastern and southern South Africa, with a small and separate population in the Etosha Pan of northern Namibia.

The majority of the population in Kalimantan is either Muslim or practice animism.

Official sources only states “ the majority of the population is mulatto ” (“… maioritariamente mestiça …”) without stating any number.

The border city of Vukovar underwent a three month siege – the Battle of Vukovar — during which most of the city was destroyed and a majority of the population was forced to flee.

It is one of four counties of Northern Ireland presently to have a majority of the population from a Catholic background, according to the 2001 census.

A majority representing 62 % of the EU's population may also be taken into account.

Much of southern and western Connecticut ( along with the majority of the state's population ) is part of the New York metropolitan area ; three of Connecticut's eight counties are statistically included in the New York City combined statistical area, the same area is widely referred to as the Tri-State area.

" Unilateral disarmament has always been opposed by a majority of the British public, with the level of support for unilateralism remaining steady at around one in four of the population.

Only ethnic dominance, the case where the largest ethnic group comprises a majority of the population, increased the risk of civil war.

The region contains the largest cities and the majority of the population of Colorado.

The wealth held by the top 10 % rose considerably over the two decades, but there was little improvement in the wealth levels in rural areas, which comprised the great majority of the population.

The majority of the population of the town lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra Nevada.

The majority of objects ( the so-called ' cold population '), have low inclinations and near-circular orbits.

According to the majority of sources ( see section Current views on Central Europe for some ) the region includes:

Sangho, the language of a small group along the Oubangui River, is the national language spoken by the majority of Central Africans.

From the 19th century, up to the end of the 20th century, most of Central Asia has been part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, both being Slavic majority countries.

During the first years in power, under Lenin's rule, the Central Committee was the key decision-making body in both practice and theory, and decisions were made through majority votes.

For example, the Central Committee voted for or against signing a peace treaty with the Germans between 1917 and 1918 during World War I ; the majority voted in favour of peace when Trotsky backed down in 1918.

During the heated debates in the Central Committee about a possible peace with the Germans, Lenin did not have a majority ; both Trotsky and Nikolai Bukharin had more support for their own position than Lenin.

The majority of the Central Committee members elected at the 17th Party Congress were killed during, or shortly after, the Great Purge when Nikolai Yezhov and Lavrentiy Beria headed the NKVD Grigory Kaminsky, at a Central Committee meeting, spoke against the Great Purge, and shortly after was arrested and killed.

In essence this led to a situation where a minority of this majority remained within the Central Committee ...

Brezhnev was able to succeed Khrushchev because a majority in the Central Committee voted in favour of removing Khrushchev from office as both First Secretary and Chairman of the Council of Ministers

The majority of speakers at Central Committee plenums were high-standing officials.

Six years later, Brezhnev had succeeded in filling the majority of the Central Committee with Brezhnevites.

Because the size of the Central Committee expanded, the majority of members were either in their first or second term.

Chernenko was elected as a compromise candidate by the Politburo ; the Central Committee could never have accepted another candidate, considering that the majority of the Central Committee members were old Brezhnev appointees.

Chernenko never got complete control over the Central Committee and Party apparatus ; while Andropov never succeeded in removing the majority of Brezhnev appointees in the Central Committee, he had succeeding in dividing the Central Committee along factional lines.

This re-united group, which now included the large majority of Christadelphians, became known as the Central fellowship named after the Birmingham Central ecclesia.

This is not a Federal state however, simply a decentralized one, as the majority of the domains of power are still vested in the Central government.

Within the wide, flat Central Plateau is the majority of Namibia ’ s population and economic activity.

Central party control is tightest in central government offices and in urban economic, industrial, and cultural settings ; it is considerably looser over government and party organizations in rural areas, where the majority of China's people live.

He is invited by the President of India in the Parliament of India as leader of the majority party to form a government at the federal level ( known as Central or Union Government in India ) and exercise its powers.