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 ," notes BBS editor Stevan Harnad, " still think that the Chinese Room Argument is dead wrong.

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.

It is not a happy prospect that the overwhelming majority of American Jews will lose their Jewishness.

By the end of the war, the overwhelming majority of Tarnów Jews had been murdered by the Germans.

Since the overwhelming majority of Ashkenazi Jews no longer live in Eastern Europe, the isolation that once favored a distinct religious tradition and culture has vanished.

However, they have none of the demonic qualities attributed to them in mediaeval Christian literature, neither is there anything comparable to the overwhelming preoccupation with Jews and Judaism ( except perhaps in the narratives on Muhammad's encounters with Medinan Jewry ) in Muslim traditional literature.

This trial went beyond a miscarriage of justice and in Herzl's words " contained the wish of the overwhelming majority in France, to damn a Jew, and in this one Jew, all Jews.

Hadrian responded with overwhelming force, putting down the rebellion, killing as many as a half million Jews, and resettling the city as a Roman colonia.

Anti-Jewish actions by Arab governments in the 1950s and 1960s, 25, 000 Mizrahi Jews from Egypt left after the 1956 Suez Crisis, led to the overwhelming majority of Mizrahim leaving Arab countries.

Broszat argued that the Holocaust began “ bit by bit ” as German officials stumbled into genocide Broszat argued that Hitler provided the goal to the functionaries of the German state “ to get rid of the Jews and above all to make the territory of the Reich judenfrei, i. e. clear of the Jews ” without providing any guidelines as to how this was to be done German officials began a massive program of ethnic cleansing and mass expulsions in Poland and elsewhere without “ clear aims … with respect to the subsequent fate of the deportees ” Following the abandonment of the Madagascar Plan, after June 1941 German officials hoped that “… the spaces to be occupied in the Soviet Union would … offer a possibility for getting rid of the Jews of Germany and of the allied and occupied countries ” Broszat maintained that when faced with the stalemate on the Eastern Front, the overwhelming of the European rail system by successive deportations and the self-imposed " problem " of three million Polish Jews the Germans had forced into ghettoes between 1939 and 1941, local German officials in Poland started in the fall of 1941 " improvised " killing schemes as the " simplest " solution to the " Jewish Question ".

Though emigration will solve the problems of some victims of persecution, the overwhelming majority, including a considerable number of Jews, will continue to live in Europe.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

Here I do not speak of military power where our advantage is obvious and overwhelming but of political power -- of influence, if you will -- about which the relevant questions are: Is Soviet influence throughout the world greater or less than it was ten years ago??

Costello took the opportunity to reconfirm his beliefs in Catholicism on 12 April 1951, in his speech on Dr. Browne's resignation: " I have no hesitation in saying that we, as a Government, representing a people, the overwhelming majority of whom are of the one faith, who have a special position in the Constitution, when we are given advice or warnings by the authoritative people in the Catholic Church, on matters strictly confined to faith and morals, so long as I am here — and I am sure I speak for my colleagues — will give to their directions, given within that scope — and I have no doubt that they do not desire in the slightest to go one fraction of an inch outside the sphere of faith and morals — our complete obedience and allegiance.

The overwhelming majority of Mexicans today speak Spanish, however, the government recognizes 62 indigenous Amerindian languages as national languages.

Jeff and Greg meet up in the park and agree to try and rekindle their romance, while Jeff's Dad, although unable to speak, gives his overwhelming approval.

The overwhelming majority of all Eurasians with Filipino ancestry of the younger generations speak English as their first language, and have a basic command of at least one Philippine language, and at least one European language of their own ethnicity.

The overwhelming majority, including those of recent immigrant background, speak Spanish ( in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay ) or Portuguese in the case of Brazil.

Nowadays the overwhelming majority of Brazilians speak Portuguese as their mother tongue, with the exception of small communities of descendants of European ( Germans, Poles, Ukrainians, Italians ) and Japanese immigrants – mostly in the South and Southeast – and Amerindian villages, who make up for an extremely minor part of the population.

Virtually all Pan-Iranists also include the Azeris, who although speak a Turkic language, are partly or mostly of native Iranian descent, and the overwhelming majority of whom are bi-langual in the Persian language.

The overwhelming majority of Somalis speak the Somali language, which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.

The overwhelming majority of the city's inhabitants are ethnic Baluch who speak the Baluchi language.

The overwhelming majority of the city's inhabitants are ethnic Baluch who speak the Baluchi language.

* In the Return of the Living Dead series, a zombie can speak normally ( even if its lungs, trachea, and facial muscles are largely missing ) but any conversation will tend to lean towards their attraction to the listener's brain, how good it must taste and the speaker's overwhelming desire to consume it.