In its most broad term, it refers to the world's Christian majority countries, which, share little in common aside from the predominance of the faith.

This sequence is common to the vast majority of the world's countries.

By 1960, the vast majority of country-states were nominally democracies, although most of the world's populations lived in nations that experienced sham elections, and other forms of subterfuge ( particularly in Communist nations and the former colonies.

About half of the world's original forests had been destroyed by 2011, the majority during the previous 50 years.

The majority of the world's air traffic falls into this category, and most of the world's airports serve general aviation exclusively.

The vast majority of this comes from the province of Quebec, which is the world's largest producer, with about 75 percent of global production totalling in 2005.

That meeting in 2001 also saw the successful accession to the WTO of China and Chinese Taipei, which along with Estonia, Jordan, Georgia, Albania, Oman, Croatia, Lithuania and Moldova joined during Mr Moore's term bringing in the majority of the world's population within the rules-based trading system.

By the late 20th century the majority of the world's countries had a prime minister or equivalent minister, holding office under either a constitutional monarchy or a ceremonial president.

Although torpedo boats have disappeared from the majority of the world's navies, they remained in use until relatively recently in a few specialised areas, most notably in the Baltic.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, Madagascar is currently responsible for the vast majority of the world's Bourbon vanilla production and 58 % of the world total vanilla fruit production.

It involved a vast majority of the world's nations — including all of the great powers — eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.

Today, cotton remains a major export of the southern United States, and a majority of the world's annual cotton crop is of the long-staple American variety.

The majority of the world's airports are non-towered, with no air traffic control presence.

The vast majority of the world's human population resides in temperate zones, especially in the northern hemisphere because of the mass of land.

The majority of the world's concert halls have at least one Steinway concert grand piano model D-274, some ( for example Carnegie Hall ) have model D-274s from both the New York City factory and the Hamburg factory in order to satisfy a greater range of preferences.

Globally, a majority of the world's people live in representative democracies including constitutional monarchy with strong representative branch – the first time in history that this has been true.

It is the most common cause of lactose intolerance as a majority of the world's population lacks these alleles.

The vast majority of the world's human population resides in temperate zones, especially in the northern hemisphere because of the mass of land.

Over 68, 000 muskoxen live on the island, the majority of the world's population.

Fisher's second Prime Ministership resulting from the 1910 federal election represented a number of firsts: it was Australia's first federal majority government ; Australia's first Senate majority, and the world's first Labour Party majority government at a national level.

The mines founded on the Broken Hill Ore Deposit – the world's richest lead-zinc ore body – have until recently provided the majority of direct employment and indirect employment in the city.

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.

It is noteworthy that the majority of the delegates to the Congress were from the less developed, former colonial nations.

One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.

A court may strike down a law on the basis of an intuitive feeling that the law is inimical to the numerical majority.

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

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.

Anyone still doubting that this is the only way markets can be is invited to try to imagine a market wherein the majority consistently wins what the minority loses.

If this attitude is seriously questioned in the Soviet Union, it does not necessarily follow that the majority of the society in which I live is too aware of the necessity for clarity on this ethical as well as aesthetic point of view.

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.

He said " A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.

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.

The majority of the clocks are caesium clocks ; the definition of the SI second is written in terms of caesium.

Swift also recognizes the implications of such a fact in making mercantilist philosophy a paradox: the wealth of a country is based on the poverty of the majority of its citizens.

Binoculars, for instance, although generally of lower power than the majority of telescopes, also tend to provide a wider field of view, which is preferable for looking at some objects in the night sky.

Anatolia ( from Greek — " east " or "( sun ) rise "; also Asia Minor, from " small Asia "; in modern ) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.

Debierne, who is now considered by the vast majority of historians as the discoverer, lost interest in the element and left the topic.

The president is elected for a five year term by the people ( absolute majority with 2nd round if necessary ).

The vast majority of energy is produced with imported fuel, including gas and nuclear fuel ( for its one nuclear power plant ) from Russia ; the main domestic energy source is hydroelectric.

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 majority Arminian view is that election is individual and based on God's foreknowledge of faith, but a second perspective deserves mention.

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.