majority opinion

collocation in English

meaningsofmajorityandopinion

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majority
noun
uk
/məˈdʒɒr.ə.ti/us
/məˈdʒɔː.rə.t̬i/
the larger number or part ...
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opinion
noun
uk
/əˈpɪn.jən/us
/əˈpɪn.jən/
a thought or belief about something ...
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(Definition ofmajorityandopinionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmajority opinion

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By yoking the police power to nuisance doctrine, themajorityopinionlocked growing cities into outdated conceptions of public health and safety.
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We coded this example as familiar, since that was the originalmajorityopinion.
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That 'majorityopinion' had determined the proper custom at this point did not preclude the possibility of future changes.
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The bias of an individual judge typically manifests itself as a deviation from themajorityopinion.
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Nevertheless, it is disconcerting to seemajorityopinionabout clause structure move away from the view argued for on the basis of aphasic speech.
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As for themajorityopinion, do-nothing sovereignty was domesticated as the doing-nothing which constitutes acquiescence.
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Themajorityopinionis that the inability to make enough or respond to insulin is due to genetic factors coupled with environmental influences that lead to the development of obesity.
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This number was chosen because each group of reports was read by six experts (three internists and three radiologists), and therefore four represents amajorityopinion.
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It is determined bymajorityopinion.
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This jurisprudential sanction confirmed for creditors that only justice in the abstract, not legal formalism,majorityopinionor any other consideration, could legitimately play a role in settling the revaluation.
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There are a number of appellate cases in which themajorityopinionuses analogical reasoning to decide that a precedent does or does not cover the present situation.
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Tonna's treatment of such topics in her wider oeuvre indicates that domestic ideology was not a static, hegemonic creed that simply reflectedmajorityopinion.
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Themajorityopinionat the time was that they did not.
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It seems to me to be something about which we should be guided by themajorityopinion.
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Has he taken into consideration what may happen in the other place and what themajorityopinionof people in the country may be?
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I have seen many cases where what has started as very much a minority opinion in the trade union movement has become themajorityopinion.
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I do not believe that it representsmajorityopinionin this country.
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Legislation, from whatever source it may come, should coincide with the general andmajorityopinionof the electors.
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But themajorityopinionwas quite clear: that it can be an offence to conspire to commit a legal action.
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Those visions are just views from the margins, packaged asmajorityopinion.
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