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.

In 2003, refugee camps in the Czech Republic were said to be " overhelmed " due to an overwhelming number of Chechen refugees.

However, only a small number of Lombards settled in Italy, in comparison with the overwhelming majority of the indigenous Latin population.

The Global Warming Petition Project also known as the Oregon Petition, is a petition which attempts to demonstrate that the claim of " settled science " and an overwhelming " consensus in favor of the hypothesis of human-caused global warming and consequent climate damage is wrong.

The overwhelming majority of the northwestern lands were controlled by the native tribes.

By a just or democratic peace, for which the overwhelming majority of the working class and other working people of all the belligerent countries, exhausted, tormented and racked by the war, are craving — a peace that has been most definitely and insistently demanded by the Russian workers and peasants ever since the overthrow of the tsarist monarchy — by such a peace the government means an immediate peace without annexations ( i. e., without the seizure of foreign lands, without the forcible incorporation of foreign nations ) and without indemnities.

This led to overwhelming use of cellular phones for private customers, fixed lines being requested mostly by companies.

Tyranids typically form a fast-moving close-combat army that relies on overwhelming its enemies through waves and waves of mostly small but infinitely deadly creatures.

Drugs are excreted mostly by the kidneys or the liver, either of which may be impaired in the elderly, and as a result the medication might need adjustment to avoid overwhelming the kidneys or liver.

The overwhelming majority of the residents are Catholic but the city has a significant percentage of Protestants, mostly descendants of English miners.

Despite the overwhelming contradictions of the coup being executed by mostly Northern soldiers ( such as John Atom Kpera later military governor of Benue State ), the killing of Igbo soldier Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Unegbe by coup executioners, and Ironsi's termination of an Igbo-led coup, the ease by which Ironsi stopped the coup led to suspicion that the Igbo coup plotters planned all along to pave the way for Ironsi to take the reins of power in Nigeria.

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.

Gunboat diplomacy in the post-Cold War world is still based mostly on naval forces, owing to the United States Navy's overwhelming seapower.

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.

In light of the general absence of overwhelming victories, this technique results in mostly shades.

Limited edition comes with the " Darrow magazine, 25 pages of " overwhelming testimonies ": mostly illustrated private jokes from French comic artists.

These aircraft, with an empty weight less than 25, 000 kg, make up the overwhelming majority of supersonic aircraft in the world today, mostly operating in the fighter, and strike capacity.

Poster for Babb's production of Mom and Dad, showing some of the rhetorical device s Babb would use to stir up controversyThe success of Mom and Dad was mostly due to Babb's marketing strategy of overwhelming a small town with ads and generating controversy.