The proposal failed to win a 'majority' in the Senate. [=the proposal was defeated because it was not voted for by more than half the senators]
Supporters of the new law appear to be 'in the majority'. [=there are more people who support the new law than who oppose it]
They won by a 'majority' of seven. [=the total number of votes they received was seven more than half of all the votes]
(..) ...concurrent or not. Now, this was an anticipated operations aspect of the resort... ...and we were fully able to handle it. The majority of the breakdowns were minor or peripheral... ...until about six weeks ago. Then Roman World had a rise in breakdown rate... ...which doubled in a week. (..)1973 Westworld