Translation of "Mehrheitsprinzip" in English

The calculation used is the hierarchical majority principal from top to down.

Within the board, decisions can be made by such methods as the consensus or majority principle.

Golden Bull governed the election of the German king by the seven prince-electors according to the principle of majority voting .

In theory, we have always known that the ECB would, if necessary, make decisions on the basis of majority rule.

If contradictory information is read out of the three redundant data lines, the decision is made in accordance with the majority principle.

There is no doubt that for the moment there is nothing better to do than hold to the majority principle.

This highest position in the Shiite scholars' hierarchy develops rather informally according to a tacit majority principle.

If the Council adopts the general framework which is proposed today, the application of displaced person status to any group of refugees will be decided by majority.

Yet better still would be to apply the majority principle to fiscal policy to achieve the harmonization necessary in the areas needed.

What we request is that, in a number of areas in which, in full adherence to the principle of subsidiarity, the Treaties now already accord Europe a key role, the role of Parliament should be strengthened and the principle of majority voting established in the Council.

We have some concern about whether enough reflection has been given by Parliament - and certainly not enough in our own group - to say that we want to see majority voting in Council also for the area of direct taxation.

On the specific matter of unanimity or majority rule for the permanent stability mechanism, I myself suggested the latter;

The Union will never be strong if it remains a condominium of Member States, even if the Council votes on a majority basis.

Along with a few colleagues I attended a few weeks ago the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva and for the first time a resolution was voted by majority voting.

I therefore believe that the Convention would be well advised to tackle this subject as well and to call for treaty reforms providing for a move away from the unanimity rule and towards the majority rule in EU tax policy.

However, the matter of whether decisions on taxation should be taken by majority vote was examined in the context of the Intergovernmental Conference.

We need majority voting in the Council, Parliament needs to have the power of codecision, and the right of the Member States to propose legislation needs to be limited, as it is mainly used for reasons of domestic policy and rarely advances the cause of European Union.

I did say that majority voting could be useful when safeguard measures were being taken, because in such cases all of the countries have to show solidarity.

As I draw to my close, let me say that the ECB Board should avail itself of the option provided for by Article 10 of its statutes to take decisions by simple majority rather than seeking consensus at any price.

Secondly, the draft Constitution provides for European institutions mainly functioning by majority, which is difficult to conceive in an enlarged Europe with no national safeguard clause.

Even though decisions are finally made by majorities (see also: Majority rule), the software allows* minorities and even individuals to present their point of views,* minorities of a certain size to put their proposals to the vote.

He persuades them to give up their wish to establish a democracy by pointing out that democracy is “the rule of the cowardly and the stupid”, that there are more cowardly people than courageous ones and more stupid people than clever ones, and that in a democracy the majority rules.