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 lesson from France is that restraints on majority rule are a good thing.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • In fact, the surest way to stifle innovation is to subject it to majority rule.
    — WSJ, 21 July 2017
  • Sure, but in a democracy, there’s also something called majority rule.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
  • Sure, but in a democracy, there's also something called majority rule.
    — George Skelton, Star Tribune, 8 June 2021
  • But the filibuster is an even more egregious insult to the principle of majority rule.
    — Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Surely that must have at least the same priority as enacting a budget by majority rule.
    — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Californians don’t have to imagine what unchecked majority rule looks like.
    — Jeremy Dalrymple, Oc Register, 2 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Three decades of Black majority rule have certainly begun to redress the inequity of the apartheid era, even if much work remains to be done.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 16 July 2024
  • Mike McCarter knows the concept of majority rule can certainly be messy.
    — CBS News, 16 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • If the question is the quality of policy outcomes, then both major camps have reasons to dread genuine majority rule.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 6 Apr. 2021
  • That’ll help the scale — because right now, the majority rules, and the majority seems to be closer to the R&B/hip-hop side.
    — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 26 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 majority rules in the House, and the supermajority rules in the Senate.
    — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • The Constitution moved America toward majority rule, though nowhere near far enough.
    — Max Taves, Mercury News, 3 July 2026
  • South Africa’s new leaders initially tried to adapt the political-economic strategy of the apartheid era to Black majority rule.
    — John Rapley, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2023

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