How to Use majority rule in a Sentence

majority rule

noun

• The Supreme Court is poised to cut the heart out of majority rule.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2022
• The House can crank out bills where the majority rules.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 4 July 2018
• The players agreed to put it to a vote — majority rule.
  — Christian Clark | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 19 Sep. 2020
• The lesson from France is that restraints on majority rule are a good thing.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2018
• But we humans still cling to majority rule as a way to curtail chaos among the masses.
  — Dallas News, 2 Nov. 2022
• But the current system of democracy — with-one-person-one-vote and majority rule — is the source of the problem.
  — Eric Posner and Glen Weyl, Vox, 29 June 2018
• The party knows its governing days are numbered and is now in open revolt against the prospect of majority rule.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2021
• The majority rules in the House, and the supermajority rules in the Senate.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• Then there's Paul's attempt to use Jim Crow laws as evidence of the dangers of majority rule.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 14 June 2021
• Elites always want to contract the electorate because there is a fear of majority rule.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2022
• And the people are encouraged to use majority rule to take property away from those who have too damn much.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2019
• As scholars have shown, the men who wrote the Constitution intended the Senate to work by majority rule, as the House does.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• In fact, the surest way to stifle innovation is to subject it to majority rule.
  — WSJ, 21 July 2017
• Things proceeded with a sense, an air, of majority rule.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021
• True to its origins, then, shifting the courts right has been a means of insulating the rules that govern the economy from majority rule.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
• There aren’t enough votes in the Senate yet to kill the filibuster altogether and move to simple majority rule.
  — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2021
• Such a protest enacts the super-majority rule, which means that three-fourths of the council would have to approve Prestwick's proposals.
  — Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2018
• But it should not be read as a Damascene conversion to the principle of black majority rule.
  — Christi Van Der Westhuizen, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2021
• But the filibuster is an even more egregious insult to the principle of majority rule.
  — Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2020
• Many of his compositions were about the struggle for majority rule and full democratic rights in South Africa.
  — Krista Mahr, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• His efforts to rally his countrymen around a demand for black majority rule twice led Rhodesia’s white rulers to throw him in prison.
  — Patrick McGroarty, WSJ, 17 June 2021
• Mike McCarter knows the concept of majority rule can certainly be messy.
  — CBS News, 16 Oct. 2022
• In the current environment, the real danger is too little majority rule rather than too much of it.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 May 2022
• As in Hungary, countries relied on courts, based on the new constitutions, to enforce rights and check majority rule.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• Those sorts of laws do the exact thing that Paul is touting as proof-positive of the negative effects of majority rule governance.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 14 June 2021
• The ease with which both parties swing from praise to condemnation of their fellow senators confirms that the Framers got it right in making the Senate a constraint on majority rule.
  — James Huffman, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2021
• In the court’s most recent case dealing with these issues, the majority ruled again 7-2 that the placement of a 40-foot-tall cross on public property did not violate the establishment clause.
  — Stephanie Barclay, Twin Cities, 11 Nov. 2019
• Instead, the majority ruled at the time that the act of police affixing a GPS device to a vehicle amounted to trespassing—so warrants were required.
  — David Kravets, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2017
• The structural changes to sideline national high courts like those that Hungary made and Netanyahu’s coalition proposed point to the ways in which the main tool of democracy — majority rule — can be used to undermine it.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• Opponents say the overhaul removes a key check on majority rule and will concentrate power in the hands of Netanyahu and his far-right allies, eroding the country's democratic institutions.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024