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.

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.

A few years later, in 1981, IBM introduced the first DOS based IBM PC, and due to the overwhelming popularity of PCs and their clones, DOS soon became the operating system on which the majority of BBS programs were run.

The election was effectively a repeat of 1997, as the Labour party vindicated the faith placed in it 4 years ago, and thus retained its overwhelming majority.

The overwhelming majority of crannogs show multiple phases of occupation and re-use, often extending over centuries.

In the overwhelming majority of cases, the Chapter 11 plan, when confirmed, terminates the shares of the company, rendering shares valueless.

Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote to Eisenhower to thank him for his actions, writing " The overwhelming majority of southerners, Negro and white, stand firmly behind your resolute action to restore law and order in Little Rock ".

The overwhelming majority of Debian users run Debian GNU / Linux, rather than Debian GNU / Hurd.

The overwhelming majority of those who describe their use of Datura find their experiences extremely unpleasant both mentally and physically and often physically dangerous.

Both the dialogues and the evolving paintings were ostensive penitential lessons that even illiterate people ( who were the overwhelming majority ) could understand.

DARPA neither owns nor operates any laboratories or facilities, and the overwhelming majority of the research it sponsors is done in industry and universities.

Since the overwhelming majority of scientists accept the modern evolutionary synthesis as the best explanation of current data, the term is seldom used in the scientific community ; to say someone is a scientist implies acceptance of evolutionary views, unless specifically noted otherwise.

A recent study from progressive authors about the environmental skepticism movement claim that the overwhelming majority of environmentally skeptical books published since the 1970s were either written or published by authors or institutions affiliated with Right-wing think tanks.

When the French public were asked to select which film they wanted to see most, having been told by the Vichy government that soon no more American films would be allowed in France, the overwhelming majority chose it over all others.

The overwhelming majority of Muslims consider hadith to be essential supplements to and clarifications of the Quran, Islam's holy book, as well as in clarifying issues pertaining to Islamic jurisprudence.

As Prime Minister, he oversaw landmark changes including the historic decision not to devalue the Australian dollar in line with the British pound, and the 1967 constitutional referendum in which an overwhelming majority of Australians voted in favour of giving the Commonwealth power to legislate specifically for indigenous Australians.

In the area of constitutional reform, undoubtedly the most significant event of Holt's time as Prime Minister was the 1967 referendum in which an overwhelming majority of Australians voted in favour of giving the Commonwealth power to legislate specifically for indigenous Australians and to include them in the Commonwealth census.

Experts emphasize that the overwhelming majority of those who use these informal networks are doing so for legitimate purposes, and simply choose to use a transaction medium other than state-supported banking systems.

It was not until 1854 that Pope Pius IX, with the support of the overwhelming majority of Roman Catholic bishops, whom he had consulted between 1851 – 1853, promulgated the papal bull Ineffabilis Deus ( Latin for " Ineffable God "), which defined ex cathedra the dogma of the Immaculate Conception:

The overwhelming majority of modern scholars consider the reference in Book 20, Chapter 9, 1 of the Antiquities to " the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James " to be authentic and to have the highest level of authenticity among the references of Josephus to Christianity.

Louis Feldman has stated that in the period from 1937 to 1980 at least 87 articles had appeared on the topic, the overwhelming majority of which questioned the total or partial authenticity of the Testimonium.

According to Robert E. Van Voorst the overwhelming majority of scholars consider both the reference to " the brother of Jesus called Christ " and the entire passage that includes it as authentic.

Middle East historian Bernard Lewis argues that " the overwhelming majority of classical theologians, jurists, and traditionalists ( specialists in the hadith ) understood the obligation of jihad in a military sense.

Under his leadership, the Congress won an overwhelming majority in the elections of 1952.

Passed with overwhelming backing, the tough new gun control rules were " hoped to prevent Europe from becoming a gun-friendly culture like the United States ," in the words of the International Herald Tribune.

Ivanhoe is sometimes credited for increasing interest in Romanticism and Medievalism ; John Henry Newman claimed Scott " had first turned men's minds in the direction of the middle ages ," while Carlyle and Ruskin made similar claims to Scott's overwhelming influence over the revival based primarily on the publication of this novel.

In November 2008, an article in the New York Times, " SPAM Turns Serious and Hormel Turns Out More ," detailed an overwhelming spike in the demand for SPAM, perhaps due to the flagging economy.

The plan envisaged a rapid German mobilization, disregard for the neutrality of Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands and an overwhelming sweep of the powerful German right wing southwest through Belgium and Northern France, " letting the last man on the right, brush the Channel with his sleeve ," in the words of Schlieffen, while maintaining only a defensive posture on the central and left wings, in Lorraine, the Vosges, and the Moselle.

In Congress, " the vast majority of actions decided by a voice vote " are ones for which " a strong or even overwhelming majority favors one side ," or even unanimous consent.

There is a stone water-basin near the tea house, where the guests rinse their hands and mouths before entering the tea room through a small, square door called nijiriguchi, or " crawling-in entrance ," which requires bending low to pass through and symbolically separates the small, simple, quiet inside from the crowded, overwhelming outside world.

Eliot also alludes to the lines near the end of Marvell's poem, " Let us roll all our strength and all / Our sweetness up into one ball ," with his lines, " To have squeezed the universe into a ball / To roll it toward some overwhelming question ," as Prufrock questions whether or not such an act of daring would have been worth it.

Another view is Khomeini had " overwhelming ideological, political and organizational hegemony ," and non-theocratic groups never seriously challenged Khomeini's movement in popular support.

Spurrier returned to Gainesville as the Gators ' head coach in 1990, and emphasized the annual Florida – Georgia contest as the " biggest of the year ," and enjoying the Gators ' overwhelming 11 – 1 success against their bitter rivals during his tenure.

The revolutionary Louis Auguste Blanqui argued in favor of an elite organising the overwhelming majority of the population against the " rich ," seizing the government in a coup d ' état, and instituting a new egalitarian economic order.

Marines fire at opposing positions. On 1 April, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations for the US military in Iraq, promised an " overwhelming " response to the Blackwater deaths, stating " We will pacify that city ,"

" I was surprised by its overwhelming power ," said Ogura, " so much that I could feel it in my bones.

While allowing that, " The overwhelming majority of Muslims are outstanding citizens ," he also claimed that some Islamic clerics were telling their congregations to ignore extremism and to refrain from helping investigators.

Eventually the Masters were organized into four " nations " comprising the French, the Picards, Normans and a polyglot of nationalities ( predominantly English, German, Scandinavian and East European ) referred to as " English ," The overwhelming majority of students were from the elite or aristocratic classes of Europe as the cost of travel and maintenance of a stay at the university, as well as basic tuition, was beyond the reach of the poor.

As Lord Chief Justice Scroggs presided at the trial of the persons denounced by Titus Oates for complicity in the " Popish Plot ," and he treated these prisoners with characteristic violence and brutality, overwhelming them with sarcasm and abuse while on their trial, and taunting them when sentencing them to death.

Having been technically " dead ," Kem is voted out of office by the opposition party ( who dislike both his disrespect for their traditions and his overwhelming popularity ) and leaves Bismoll to find adventure.

The ethics of the use of these devices by athletes has been discussed by the World Anti-Doping Agency ( WADA ), which claimed that it could be equivalent to blood doping and therefore they should be banned ; however, on September 16, 2006, Dick Pound of the WADA announced that "... the overwhelming consensus of our health, medicine and research committees – was that, at this time, it is not appropriate to do so ," No explanation was given as to how WADA would have enforced a ban.

" You could almost smell it from the very first reading that took place ; this is going to be an overwhelming hit ," said Hill.

Mexican producers had chosen the Mexican Rocío Banquels, but Harold Prince was overwhelming, " in my music I want Valeria ," so it was decided that the two were actors.

Prime Minister Qarase hailed the decision, saying that he had received the " overwhelming support of the Fijian people ," but Opposition Leader Mahendra Chaudhry said that the chiefs had failed to address the issue properly, and that he would continue to fight the bill.

" As I said yesterday and I've said since election day, WorkChoices is dead, and there is an overwhelming mandate for the Labor Party's policy of tearing up Work Choices ," he said.