pluralities

• He gets the same kind of pluralities as Joe Stalin and Fidel Castro. —  Liblogs.ca latest blog entries
• Only two countries had pluralities or majorities that felt predominately one way or the other about Britain's foreign policy - one negative, Palestine, and one positive, Kenya. —  CommonDreams.org Headlines
• The clergy were prohibited from holding pluralities, except in certain cases, but the act was drawn with astonishing moderation; it did not apply to benefices acquired before 1530, unless they exceeded the number of four. —  Henry VIII.
• Tithes, pluralities, and every sort of ecclesiastical privilege were sacrificed. —  The French Revolution A Short History
• In regard to pluralities, therefore, the commissioners proposed, that no clerygyman should hold two livings if the income of one of them exceeded Ł500, or they were more than ten miles distant from each other; and that, in no case, should any clergyman hold more than two livings. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria

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