To mark plurality, one language may add an extra syllable to the word whereas another may simply change the vowel in the existing final syllable. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A plurality of religions. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
(Ironically though, no one uses the term plurality, but instead a child level explanatory term, "first past the post", as though Canadians need to be talked down to.). From Wordnik.com. [Representation No Longer Needed - Speak for Yourself] Reference
But an inability to tell the difference between a majority and a plurality is the least of this guy's problems. From Wordnik.com. [Daimnation!: Bush v. Hitler] Reference
Therefore, either candidate suggesting they have a plurality is just so much poppycock. dondon esperanza. From Wordnik.com. [Entiende Peje] Reference
Another word for plurality is a minority, but being the race conscious site that CNN is, they don't feel it is appropriate to call someone a minority. From Wordnik.com. [Poll shows plurality of Americans want Palin to stay home] Reference
What is especially rejects is the idea of plurality and individual choice. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2001] Reference
What is true of the idea of plurality is naturally just as true of a great many other concepts. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts] Reference
Trinity in Unity is given, yet the notion of plurality of Persons is plainly implied in the term. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
There is one kind of oneness which does not exclude the idea of plurality; there is another which does. From Wordnik.com. [Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion] Reference
Construed almost synonymous with democracy, the idea of plurality and choice is also lapped up by the market economy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference
A particular judgment, relating to several objects, implies the idea of plurality, and discriminates between the several objects. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics] Reference
The result in the first 100 days after Clinton Administration won a plurality was a massive tax cut for foreign corporations through. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
To say that the view of plurality, which is the effect of that imagination, continues even after its root has been cut, is mere nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
In correspondence with the plurality of ideas in Plato, the Stoics divided the one logos into a plurality, which is called in Greek logoi. From Wordnik.com. [The Johannine Writings] Reference
The plurality is wrong to do so. From Wordnik.com. [The Courts] Reference
A "plurality" of people want me to be the next president. From Wordnik.com. [Poll shows plurality of Americans want Palin to stay home] Reference
As he puts it, the idea lacks "plurality" or, rather, it precedes all plurality. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice of Critique: Aesthetic Cognition After Kant,] Reference
Turning now to "plurality," a particularly sniffy editorial in the Globe also caught my eye this morning. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference
Accordingly wherever, on the part of matter, we find a kind of plurality, there we shall find a reason for assigning parts. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
The need for a "plurality" of rare earth resources?. From Wordnik.com. [Muti] Reference
Our country has what's called a "plurality" voting system. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
"For me, the meaning of Mandela is the idea of plurality and tolerance of ideas. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Sullivan is outraged that I regard the idea of plurality in the deity as "a regress to polytheism. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
Under so-called "plurality" systems, directors can keep their seats so long as they receive one vote. From Wordnik.com. [Fool.com: The Motley Fool] Reference
But without qualification two is few; for it is first plurality which is deficient (for this reason. From Wordnik.com. [Metaphysics] Reference
Clinton was a plurality president, having failed to win 50 percent of the vote. From Wordnik.com. [A Risky Strategy] Reference
They're expected to win a plurality in Sunday's elections, from a field of 43 parties. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Renaissance] Reference
Still, Clinton has a stronger base to work from than his plurality victory would indicate. From Wordnik.com. [Knowing When The Party's Over] Reference
Kim had hoped that his summit surprise would give the ruling party a plurality in the assembly. From Wordnik.com. [The Pyongyang Card] Reference
The outcome still leaves the opposition Grand National Party with a thin plurality in the National Assembly. From Wordnik.com. [The Pyongyang Card] Reference
McCain wouldn't have won if he hadn't collected 40 percent of the independent vote, an overwhelming plurality. From Wordnik.com. [Bogus Claims in Boca] Reference
A strong plurality of Afghans still want to finish that work, and they want the international community to stay and help. From Wordnik.com. [Can the War in Afghanistan Still Be Won?] Reference
Benedict XVI is profoundly aware of the world's dissonance, which to his mind is not simply a reflection of the world's plurality. From Wordnik.com. [The End of the Caricature] Reference
They do machine politics by rewarding certain coalitions and constituencies, and hoping they assemble enough support to have plurality. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Ryan: Let The Idea People Lead] Reference
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