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adjective big, chief, comprehensive, considerable, crucial, decisive, distinguished, enormous, essential, extensive, extraordinary, far-reaching, fateful, goodly, grave, great, high-level, important, impressive, intense, key, large, leading, massive, matchless, material, memorable, meritorious, moderately large, momentous, notable, noteworthy, outstanding, ponderous, pressing, prime, principal, remarkable, serious, significant, sizable, sober, solemn, substantial, supreme, top, top-level, tremendous, unparalleled, vital, weighty, worthy of consideration, worthy of remark

MAJOR, persons. One who has attained his full age, and has acquired all his civil rights; one who is no longer a minor; an adult.

MAJOR. Military language. The lowest of the staff officers; a degree higher than captain.

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Another ex-prime minister, Sir John Major, will also face the inquiry.

Miliband, Harman and Major to face Leveson

MAJOR EXPENSE: police protection for John Major at Edgbaston totalled pounds 800 a day; NO COST: Will Smith and Beverley Knight

YOU PAID pounds 1,600 FOR JOHN MAJOR TO WATCH CRICKET; Shock costs of protecting VIPs

Her tawdry tale would have sold about as many copies as her unreadable novel without spilling the beans on John Major.

Major's gutless silence is real shame; He allowed Edwina to blab

Once Thatcher was gone, John Major attempted to make inroads in covert negotiations with Irish Catholics seeking their own voice amid the majority Protestants - who had their own murderous extremists, the Loyalists - through a shadow group called The Link.

THE TROUBLES PBS AIRS A CAREFUL RE-EXAMINATION OF THE BRITISH-IRISH CONFLICT

John Major called him a lucky man, and when Boutros-Ghali published An Agenda for Peace in 1992, he was hailed for breathing new life into what many saw as a moribund organization.

UNVANQUISHED: A U.S.-U.N. Saga

For the last three years of his government, John Major gave him unprecedented access to himself and No.

Major: A Political Life

Back in the swinging sixties, it seems that rascally John Major had an affair with an olderwoman.

You can't make up stuff like this

amp; LONDON -- Mobile Complete, the global leader of handset proliferation management, announces the addition of former Motorola CTO John Major to its board of directors amid the company's aggressive worldwide expansion.

Mobile Complete Expands Presence Into Europe With UK Office Opening and Names Former Motorola CTO John Major to Its Board of Directors

Summary: Former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major has suggested that Labour leader Tony Blair was more right wing than him.

Major at Leveson: 'Blair was more right wing than me'

To clarify, PFI was an invention of John Major's government, and the truth is John Major is a Tory, as was his government.

Tory's stance is hypocritical; Views of the North

The survey put Lady Thatcher's successor Sir John Major bottom of the rankings on both counts.

Maggie 'was the most capable PM'

The Latex models included three former Conservative prime ministers, Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher and John Major.