1.   Although the terms of the joint venture are confidential, officials with knowledge of the details say Enron controls a majority of shares.

2.   But the history of the world, from the Roman Empire to modern South Africa, is filled with examples of minorities controlling majorities.

3.   Entreposto holds a controlling stake in the company, because it controls the majority of the shares that have voting rights.

4.   For the first time, Mexican opposition parties together control a majority of seats in the lower house of Congress.

5.   He controls a majority of the board.

6.   His party, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, will still control a majority of seats.

7.   If only four delegations shifted from the Republican to the Democratic column, the Democrats would control a majority.

8.   Not only did Bush win more states than Gore, but Republicans control a majority of state delegations.

9.   Of the nine seats on the board, the Rigas family controls a majority .

10.   Ortho and Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, a division of American Home Products Corp., control the majority of the pill market in this country.